LPC, 10 years of experience
I’m a licensed professional counselor in the state of Pennsylvania, and I have been practicing for about a decade now.***NOTE- I do NOT do couples therapy anymore. I also do NOT work with children or teens anymore, thank you! I truly love/enjoy neuroscience (overall brain health education) and have multiple trainings in this. I enjoy teaching my clients about the importance of brain health and how the body functions with the brain, and how certain mental health traits happen based on the chemistry of the brain, along with encouraging clients to practice self care, emotional regulation, and being able to think about ways of exercising healthy brain health. Your health is wealth! :)
In our first session together, clients will be expected to go through an intake process where we get to develop, and establish rapport with one another along with talking about treatment goals.
I believe my greatest strengths as a therapist/clinician are helping individuals through family conflicts, relationship conflicts, interpersonal communication, skills, understanding, emotional regulation tactics, and reframing your rational thought patterns. I am more of a direct type of therapist and I encourage my clients to run their sessions, effectively by empowering them to navigate their presenting concerns. I enjoy motivational interviewing styles as well.
Online clients: I enjoy working with young professionals, fresh out of college, along with individuals that are first starting out in their careers to help them with career development. I really enjoy also working with ages 25 to middle age as well and helping individuals through different developmental stages, along with retirement as well. I have expertise working with individuals of the LGBTQI + community as well.
I have been using cognitive behavioral therapy for the last nine years in my therapy sessions, I feel it’s super important to have a deep connection with mind and body understanding. With my approaches, I help people tackle, irrational, thoughts and fears, and also intrusive thinking I believe it’s super beneficial to be able to incorporate challenging any irrational thoughts. I help clients understand the concept of cognitive distortions, and how to challenge that frame of thinking.
In my experience, as a psychotherapist, I feel like dialectical, behavioral therapy is super important to understand, mindfulness, emotional regulation, skills, and understanding relationships better from an interpersonal standpoint.
In my years working in therapy with clients the "solution focused Brief approach" is super important to help people understand tackling problems, and helping them understand solutions, rather than looking at the problem as a whole.