LMFT, 19 years of experience
Hi! I'm a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in North Carolina. I received my Masters from the East Carolina University and have been practicing for 19 years. I help adults struggling with life stresses and concerns that may be impacting their day to day functioning. I have worked for a non-profit for the last 24 years and am a single mom of a teenager.
In our first session together, I'll spend some time getting to know you and not only discuss specific challenges you may be facing but also your hopes for yourself and for your future. This will help me create a tailored plan for us to work through in follow-up sessions.
Developing a trusting therapeutic relationship is important. Together we may work through some difficult things, but clients should also leave a session feeling hopeful for the future.
Therapy is a collaborative process. My clients are eager to more effectively manage life stresses and concerns, but don't yet have the tools needed to make this goal a reality. They may feel stuck, overwhelmed and anxious.
CBT helps you become aware of inaccurate or negative thinking so you can view challenging situations more clearly and respond to them in a more effective way. CBT can be a very helpful tool — either alone or in combination with other therapies, in treating mental health disorders such as depression but not everyone who benefits from CBT has a mental health condition. CBT can be an effective tool to help anyone learn how to better manage stressful life situations.
MI is a collaborative, goal-oriented style of communication with particular attention to the language of change. It is designed to strengthen personal motivation for and commitment to a specific goal by eliciting and exploring the person’s own reasons for change within an atmosphere of acceptance and compassion.
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) is a short-term goal-focused evidence-based therapeutic approach, which incorporates positive psychology principles and practices, and which helps clients change by constructing solutions rather than focusing on problems. In the most basic sense, SFBT is a hope friendly, positive emotion eliciting, future-oriented vehicle for formulating, motivating, achieving, and sustaining desired behavioral change.
Trauma Informed Care considers the experiences of each individual, how trauma may impact their lives, what symptoms they’re experiencing and then works to prevent re-traumatization.
1 rating with written reviews
April 16, 2025
Celena was very relatable. She made me feel comfortable during my session and was very knowledgeable and productive