LPCMH, 12 years of experience
New to Grow
My name is Amber and I am just your average woman living life in the midwest. I am a wife, mother to 3 littles and therapist. I have served all kinds of populations from incarceration to outpatient working with kiddos as young as 3 to adults in their 80s. What you see in session, the laid back, goofy but can be blunt person is who you'd meet on the street if you saw me in public. I believe healing comes from within but also from the people you choose to surround yourself with. Some people have a great support system and others have me as their cheerleader and I strive to be a good one.
Our first session is a lot of information gathering from me and some questions are easier than others, but I want you to ask questions too! I am a rather open person so if you have questions you feel are relevant to get to know me or my style or therapy in general, please don't hesitate to ask.
Strengths are hard to identify in yourself, even for me with this question. I feel like a strength I have is I put myself in the client's shoes and try to truly understand what they're going through or describing, even if I've never been through their experiences before, I will do my best to make them feel heard and comforted in speaking about them.
I don't have an "ideal" client but the ones that come to therapy knowing that they are going to have to work for the changes they want to see are the ones that usually stick it out in the rough times.
I pull methods/techniques from multiple different modalities of treatment. I tend to focus on cognitive behavioral (CBT), dialectical behavioral (DBT) and acceptance and commitment (ACT) the most.
I pull methods/techniques from multiple different modalities of treatment. I tend to focus on cognitive behavioral (CBT), dialectical behavioral (DBT) and acceptance and commitment (ACT) the most.
I pull methods/techniques from multiple different modalities of treatment. I tend to focus on cognitive behavioral (CBT), dialectical behavioral (DBT) and acceptance and commitment (ACT) the most.