Chris Messersmith
Hello, I am Chris Messersmith, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker licensed to serve clients residing in Florida and Texas. I have been in practice for over 15 years in the fields of Mental Health, Palliative Care, Geriatrics, and other Healthcare settings. I also serve as a Qualified Supervisor for Registered Clinical Social Work Interns in Florida, supporting new therapists in building ethical, effective, clinical practice.
First session
I offer Telehealth sessions through a secure, HIPAA-compliant platform. Our first session will begin with a review of Intake Forms, Informed Consent, Confidentiality, and Privacy Practices. We will then explore your current challenges and goals for our work together. If you're ready to start feeling better, please reach out to schedule our first session.
Strengths
My approach is collaborative, compassionate, and strengths based. Using cognitive, behavioral, and mindfulness techniques, I will help you shift thoughts and behaviors, improve communication, and strengthen coping resources. You will lead your personal growth and healing while I walk beside you offering guidance, perspective, and encouragement.
Ideal clients
At Integrated Insight Counseling, LLC, I offer a relaxed, supportive space where personal growth and healing begin. If you’re feeling overwhelmed by daily life, navigating a major transition, coping with loss, or seeking a better quality of life, then I am ready to help you. I work with Clients on Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, Grief, Loss, Communication, Chronic Illness, Life Transitions, Relationships, Aging, and other challenges. We’ll explore what is most important to you, identify patterns that no longer serve you, and integrate your life experiences with practical coping skills.
Treatment methods
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Using cognitive, behavioral, and mindfulness techniques, I help clients shift thoughts and behaviors, improve communication, and strengthen coping resources.
Grief Therapy
I work with clients to process, accept, and integrate losses into their life experience .
Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
Using cognitive, behavioral, and mindfulness techniques, I help clients shift thoughts and behaviors, improve communication, and strengthen coping resources.
Strength-Based
My approach is collaborative and strengths based. I help clients to identify and shift unhelpful patterns, draw upon inherent strengths, and connect to inner resilience to achieve goals.
Trauma-Informed Care
My practice recognizes that different types of trauma have impacted many people in today's world. All interventions will be used with a recognition of how trauma experienced impacts your currently.
Location
Virtual sessions