I am an integrative Cognitive Behavioral Therapist (CBT) that utilizes multiple other modalities to help you help your self. I am part therapist, part counselor, part coach and part cheerleader to help you raise awareness of how we got her; and what we need to do to think, say, and do differently to get to where we want to go.
In the first session there will be a talk about confidentiality followed by ample time to explain why you have come to treatment. This will also be paired with basic assessments questions to best determine where you are at currently, and to develop the best 3 dimensional picture of you possible.
My greatest strengths include the genuine desire to understand who you are as a person, the ability to listen for as long as necessary to help you feel heard and validated, and also to know when to give you what you need more so than just simply what you want.
For someone to learn that it is our thoughts that create the feeling, and in turn effects our behavior, coupled with identifying where our negative core beliefs come from can absolutely help someone take charge of themselves and where they want to go.
To also utilize a very present based and focused therapy style that uses abstract approaches to help raise awareness about why we sub-consciously do what we do can also be very empowering.
To explore the origins of how our early life experiences can absolutely mold and model our nervous system and how we instinctually act and react under certain stressors.
For those who are comfortable with this as a component of their treatment plan it can super-charge and better make sense of why bad things happen to good people; and how to work towards accepting the reality of what is and what we may be called to do or be.
Although not an adequate replacement for individual therapy group therpay can lend an extra dimension of learning that we are never alone despite how much it feels like that sometimes and then to be an active participant in growing and connecting with others with similar thoughts, feelings, issues and experiences can make therapy profoundly helpful.