Moriah Emerald McCarthy
Hi! My name is Moriah E. McCarthy. I am a licensed mental health counselor that believes in a holistic and blended approach with respect for the mind-body-spirit connection. Mental health is a pivotal component of all wellness.
My interventions often weave various tools together frequently drawing on mindfulness, self-compassion, and Existentialism.
Treatment with me blends the exploration of the past and the deepening of insight with more concrete interventions and a forward-focused momentum. I use psycho-education and skills-building to empower clients to support themselves after counseling. Strengths and weaknesses are brought forward to integrate thoughts, feelings and actions into the whole self. I believe in collaborating with clients throughout the process. Clients feel supported and also challenged to take responsibility for their own success. When you work with me, I hope that we partner in your treatment. I value your feedback, appreciate you opening to possibilities, and taking action for greater stability. My approach is best described as client-centered and creative.
First session
The first session is the least fun much of the time. I ask questions and check through the intake information clients provided. Clients can prepare by thinking about what they want to get out of therapy. Focusing on goals and the support needed make all the questions worthwhile. Clarifying this is important in the first session.
Strengths
My biggest strength is being able to draw on the client's subjective framework to tailor interventions in a way the resonates for clients. I welcome culture, spiritualism, and values into clinical work.
Ideal clients
My ideal clients desire change and understand that the unifying agenda under all wellness goals is to build sustained well-being. I love working with people who want to share many aspects of themselves and pull in their skills, expertise, interests, and culture to inform our strategies. Whether you're navigating a life transition, relationship strain, or the weight of anxiety, we'll build strategies that draw on your own strengths.
Treatment methods
Existential
The Existential approach to therapy honors a clients framework asking them to align with who they want to be. The Self is the totality of our nature seeking to express itself. The impact of the past is recognized but the emphasis is on present and future choices. Interpersonally, these principles continue. Existentialism focuses on values and the generation of meaning. This works perfectly with foundational wellness concepts like healthy personal boundaries and looking at our intra- and inner-personal narrative. It links well with positive psychology and interventions that create greater and more sustained well-being.
Positive Psychology
Positive psychology is an area of the field devoted to looking at how we can sustain well-being. This is woven throughout my work so that my clients understand that the choices they make outside of therapy and how they implement their therapeutic learning can support their resilience. Investment in this science of happiness is a personal motivation in my work. I also follow the work of Interpersonal Neurobiology and continually receive further education in this working towards certification. This overlaps beautifully with positive psychology creating a cohesive framework for the integrative functionality that allows us to sustain that well-being.
Supportive
Support Therapy more and more has become a modality I use in my work because the tenets of it give us a reality-based approach that is validating. Our strengths matter, the solutions available matter, the parts of who we are that bring forth resiliency matter.
Acceptance and commitment (ACT)
ACT is sort of like the more mindful offshoot of behavioral and cognitive approaches. As a practitioner that knows the worth of mindfulness and how central values are to personal and interpersonal functioning, ACT has become an approach that I often guide or teach. Many times in life we are grappling with what we can control, what we cannot and working on processing that so that we can move forward with acceptance. The acceptance is often the turning point of change because when we can face something for what it is or ourselves we can then commit to action. That's a powerful blend of ideas that come together under ACT.
Location
Virtual sessions
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- FloridaLicense MH17677