Melissa Beadle
New to Grow
My approach to client care is strengths and evidence based, client-centered, trauma-informed and individualized. I have significant training in DBT and also utilize CBT, ACT and Christian faith based approaches to client care. I have been providing therapy services for the past 13 years. I work with adults 18 years and older, who experience anxiety, depression, trauma, domestic violence, low self-esteem, grief and relationship issues. I also have significant experience working with substance use. My goal is to create a safe place for clients to experience support and healing. If you are feeling weary, wounded and wondering if healing is possible, I invite you to try therapy. Taking the first step is often the most challenging. You are not measured by what holds you captive but rather by what sets you free.
Get to know me
In our first session together, here's what you can expect
Our initial session will be an assessment to identify the issues that need to be addressed, as we collaborate to set a treatment plan that is individual to you. Clients who commit to therapy and between sessions skills practice, experience improvement.
The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions
My approach to client care is individual, supportive and collaborative. We will partner together to identify what goals you have for therapy. Clients experience me as warm, engaging and compassionate. Clients will feel safe and supported to explore new ways of coping with life stressors. Clients have shared that they feel more empowered and equipped to face life's challenges after sessions.
The clients I'm best positioned to serve
I work with clients who may be struggling with mental health who often find themselves engaging in patterns of behavior that often worsen symptoms. Therapy is solution focused and goal oriented. Clients should be willing to do between sessions homework or skills practice for increased accountability and outcome. *Please note that I do not provide documentation for emotional support animals.
Location
VirtualMy treatment methods
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
I love to offer tools to clients to reduce the mental health impact of painful thoughts, feelings and behaviors through cognitive restructuring. During treatment, we will look at how to develop more adaptive thinking to improve overall well being, strengthen self esteem and improve self efficacy. Clients will learn to be empowered and to focus on their own resiliency.
Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
DBT allows clients to learn the skills needed to cope with life stressors and to build a life worth living. I have years of experience helping clients learn radical acceptance strategies, crisis survival skills for distress tolerance and emotion regulation skills needed to reduce distress and make lasting changes. I have used DBT in womens groups, and have taught DBT as a psychoeducation intervention in substance use treatment programs.
Acceptance and commitment (ACT)
Clients benefit from ACT as a way to learn flexible and adaptive thinking to develop a growth mindset, explore and clarify personal values and develop a willingness to experience difficult thoughts, feelings and sensations without allowing these experiences to control and take over.
Faith based therapy
As a Christian, it can be challenging to find a therapist who will allow spiritual aspects of faith to be a part of treatment. I empower clients who are wanting to incorporate their Christian values, to utilize their faith in strengths based ways to enhance resiliency and healing through the lens of grace and safety.
Trauma Informed Care
I have years of experience working with adults who have experienced childhood neglect and abuse, domestic violence and substance use. Your story is a part of who you are but it is also not your identity. You may not have been responsible for the hurt but you can be empowered to find safety and healing. If substance use has been your primary coping strategy for attempting to cope with your trauma, I have years of experience helping clients find freedom. Shame dies when stories are told in safe places.