LICSW, 8 years of experience
I am a bilingual, independent clinical social worker with a background in public health and over 18 years of experience in both the physical and mental health sectors. For the past seven years, my work has focused primarily on mental health therapy. I collaborate closely with my clients to support them in increasing self-awareness, understanding the emotional and interpersonal aspects of change and growth, and recognizing patterns in their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that affect daily life. My goal is to help clients develop stronger coping skills to overcome challenges and improve their overall well-being. In addition, I speak Amharic and am able to provide therapy in the language.
In our first session. We will start brief introduction then I will learn about specific client needs and Goals, I will learn my client expectations and I will explain my expectations. This will help to plan for our next follow up sessions.
Having 18 years work experience in physical health and mental health. I will collaborate with you to identify your personal mental health and wellness challenges, how to overcome or cope with it, identify personalized health coping skills and create a tailored plan that leads to measurable progress
I love working with young adult, adult with different cultural background. I love to work collaborate with my clients to explore individualized mental health challenges, negative feelings and the sources, ways of improving and changing some negative thoughts with positive thoughts to overcome the challenges and cope with overwhelming. Open the door to learn from challenges and using as opportunity for growth, maximize potentials.
Explore client thought patterns, behaviors, feelings , explore the connections and how it affect each other and how its affect our day to day routines, life Goals...
chooses their techniques based on the client’s unique needs, exploring client strength , reviewing, using open ended questions, reframing barriers or weakness-normalizing the weakness , maximizing usage of strength for day to day routines, tracking or journaling
Help the client to be aware about trauma effect, aware about the feelings due to unaddressed traumatic events , explore individualized symptom, teach skills /the way of challenging unhelpful thoughts , explore changing belief regarding traumatic events or effects
recognize and understand my own culture and how it influences my relationship with a client, integrate cultural sensitivity practices into the treatment recognize and respect differences and take steps to communicate and interact empathetically with my clients from diverse backgrounds
Grief experience is individualized, learn the type of the grief, the losses and provide individualized intervention , introduce the grief stages, process the feelings based on the stages , normalized and teach coping skills