LPC, 20 years of experience
New to Grow
Welcome! I provide client-centered and solution-focused counseling to help support your journey to wellness and help you navigate life through challenges so that you can get back to living fully again. I have a Master's Degree in Community and Addiction Counseling from The College of William Mary with a minor in Family Counseling and a certification in School Counseling. I've taken coursework in art therapy, spirituality counseling, family play therapy, and motivational interviewing. I've worked in a variety of settings including psychiatric care, schools, trauma centers, domestic violence shelters, substance abuse treatment centers and general counseling agencies.
In our first sessions, I'll take the time to listen deeply to your concerns, help you gently unravel the layers, and help you craft a personalized path forward using your own unique creativity, skills, and preferences. We'll also discuss confidentiality, safety planning, and Telehealth procedures.
I take a holistic approach by helping you explore whether nutrition and lifestyle could help enhance your treatment, and I use a variety of creative approaches including art journaling and guided imagery. I focus first and foremost on listening to you and helping you find the answers to your challenges within yourself.
My areas of focus are depression, anxiety, trauma, relationship concerns, parenting/family struggles, women's issues, and goal setting. I often work well with clients who exhibit low motivation, feelings of worthlessness, overwhelm, shame, worry, frustration, disappointment, and helplessness. Together, we'll develop the coping skills you need for healing.
I'm passionate about helping clients live their best lives because I know what it's like to overcome being stuck. I use a person-centered approach, fully engaging with meeting you where you are. Our first sessions will focus on building rapport and exploring your concerns in depth so that we can develop a plan that helps you reach your goals.
For help managing strong emotions, I will utilize cognitive behavioral strategies to help identify unwanted patterns and change them to patterns that will help you reach your goals. I incorporate methods of dialectical behavior therapy, which is an effective approach to catching overwhelming feelings and unproductive behavior and making a conscious decision to choose more helpful responses.
For clients stuck in patterns that get in the way of productive change, I use motivational interviewing approaches to help shift the balance towards desired change. MI incorporates a Stages of Change model to help you move through pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and maintaining success.
With a focus on solutions, I'll help you explore what you've done that's worked in the past and how we can build on those skills to develop strategies that work for your current situation.
My approach is holistic, often incorporating nutrition, lifestyle and self-care strategies, and mindfulness, relaxation, and art techniques.