LMSW-C, 3 years of experience
I am a 57-year-old female with 3 adult daughter and 6 grandchildren. I put myself through college while married raising my daughters and while divorced to obtain my bachelor's in psychology and then my master's in social work. My bachelor's was received by Central Michigan University, and my masters was received from Walden University. I have experience from working with children who have autism and implementing ABA therapy. I have worked in schools, ISD's for the educational systems, community mental health as adult therapist, and crisis work for children, and therapy for children and parents. I have worked for domestic violence shelters and worked as a sexual assault therapist.
First sessions are getting to know each other and getting questions answered to understand what the desired outcome is, and how we can achieve that.
My uniqueness is that I can feel what the client is feeling, and the client can use me as a channel to become what they desire.
I love working with young adults who are struggling with career paths, or to remain single or marry and/or relationship issues or struggling with different cultural views compared to their family. Families who are struggling with positive effective communication with one another and needing to identify boundaries with one another. I enjoy supporting individuals on their own personal growth to cultivate what they envision for themselves.
EMDR is a therapeutic approach to identify the trauma by not verbalizing it in detail, but then reprocessing it to decrease the amount of emotional pain attached to it, by understanding why the reacted the way they did, and find how to regulate their emotions and to stay safe while reprocessing it.
Supporting the clients understanding how the scriptures apply to their life.
active listening, validating, open ended questions to lead the client to their own answer.