Hello! I am an experienced therapist that has helped others with numerous personal and family issues. I look at the process of therapy as a journey we go on together so I can learn about your life and help you recognize your strengths and help you gain insight into triggers. I have been a licensed therapist for 15 years. I specialize in trauma and am trained in specific techniques including DBT and EMDR to help process your past and gain calming coping skills. I emphasize the use of journaling and meditation to gain knowledge about yourself between sessions and help you process your past in a safe place. I have worked within addiction and family systems and have experience teaching boundaries and communication skills to help you improve important relationships in your life.
I will go over a timeline of your life to get to know the full picture of who you are. I will ask questions to get to know you and how you think.
I feel my biggest strengths as a therapist is identifying trauma and specific thinking patterns created by your home environment or social norms that are currently impacting your quality of life and how to examine and change these for a happier more peaceful existence.
Clients that I am best positioned to serve are people who are willing to be vulnerable about their life and want to take responsibility to make positive changes in their life. I believe in talking about deeper subjects such as "why are you here and what lessons do you feel like you are learning in life" to have meaningful conversations that promote growth.
encouragement to practice mindfulness and create greater self awareness is beneficial to learn about yourself, your triggers and patterns
focus on your thinking patterns and how to break out of the "negative self talk trap", helping clients to recognize and identify these patterns as ways to improve self esteem
I have used EMDR therapy with clients that have experienced traumatic situations that are still effecting their lives, use of guided visualizations and how tapping into the self conscious and can help resolve traumas and create peace in their lives