Hello, and welcome. Thank you for taking the time to read about me. I am Tiffany, a licensed Native-American therapist, and retired licensed schoolteacher, with eight years of experience in the mental health field. I am a lifelong learner, seeker of truth, and someone who is a trained confidant, a non-judgmental human who allows God to do all the judging and the guiding of our Universe and our human experiences. Regardless of your background, beliefs, age, life experiences, or predispositions of yourself, or me, I formulate my practice in a way that aims to help everyone with love, kindness and humility. I am extensively trained to treat children, adolescents, and adults in the following areas: trauma, breakups, life transitions, alcohol/substance abuse, and addiction (individual and family), anxiety, stress, depression, self-harm, self-esteem/image issues, severe trauma, wellness, couples/family issues, grief, geriatric concerns, severe emotional and behavioral diagnoses, ADHD, adjustment disorders, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, personality disorders, PTSD, Autism, schizophrenia, and panic disorders.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
The first session will first discuss my professional disclosure, confidentiality, informed consent, and will include a summary of all of your rights that you have on your therapy journey. I will ask you what initially made you seek therapy, and what your specific goals are (it's okay to not know! Being here is important enough!). Then, I will get to know you a little better with my intake questionnaire, formulated off of your initial documents that you complete. The questionnaire will look like a conversation about your life, and usually takes the rest of the initial session. After the initial stages are complete, we work together to create your treatment plan!
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
When our bodies need therapy, we are usually physically working on that body part in order to create repairs (changes). I see providing mental health therapy as the same: instilling some hope and grounding into your own mind, to repair and rewire your brain. That hope and grounding sometimes need to come from a third party in order to take shape within our lives. I look at myself as a change-facilitator. You do all the work; I just give you some hope.
About Tiffany Pearson
Appointments
Free consults, virtual
My treatment methods
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
I enjoy using CBT skills in most of my treatment plans. I perceive CBT to be a "hands-on" approach as it requires the brain's usage of specific tools that provoke thought changes. Our automatic thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that govern our daily lives are rooted in our earliest experiences, and throughout our lives. The thoughts that disrupt our daily functioning are simply negative thoughts about the presenting situation. Those thoughts, when actively recognized, can be changed, and everything else as a result! Your brain is POWERFUL!
Trauma-Focused CBT
I am trained in TF-CBT and Trauma-Informed care; I treat both children and adults suffering from trauma. TF-CBT is designed for children, teens, and adolescents; it requires specific skills that target the child, their family, and their direct environments. Due to our brain's developmental stages, adults require a slightly different approach to trauma. Both approaches are typically short-term, and sometimes, additional therapies are not needed, as it builds on the strengths you already have! Trauma is usually the precursor to some of the most common disorders: PTSD, anxiety, depression, personality disorders, and addictions.
Grief Therapy
Too often, we humans, need to process loss, but cannot, because we are ill-prepared. Many losses are unexpected, or unconventional, like losing a significant relationship, giving up addictions, loss of personal privileges in life, etc. No matter if the loss is significant to others, sometimes they can define our own human experience. There are tools to help you through the dark periods of life. Grieving is natural, and it is needed.
Play Therapy
Play therapy is not just for our tiny humans, it can be for big humans too! I am in the process of completing my graduate certificate in play therapy. It is designed to target attachment styles within our life's events that may affect us currently. I and promote self-reliance, self-confidence, and understanding our how our thoughts about ourselves can alter our creative mindset, and lock our minds into subconscious thoughts of ourselves.
Eclectic
Mental health treatment, in any capacity, should be tailored to the client. The treatment plan is a working document that is developed based on the therapist and the client actively identifying the following: 1. current state of mind, 2. past experiences, and, 3. life-pattern behavioral tendencies. THEN using multiple approaches that work for the client. Those approaches may encompass from one to twenty different treatment methods! Therapy is about you, the client, and no one else! You have to be able to have dominion over your treatment in ways that will be effective.
