Shelly N Grabiak
With over 20 years of combined experience begining on suicide prevention, DV, and community hotlines, in hospitals & clinics, all levels of mental health and addiction treatment centers, palliative and hospice home care, along with extensive education, certification, & training; I have learned and loved to coach, advocate, educate, counsel, & inspire healing. I stand by personal and professional values of authenticity, courage, integrity, and compassion. I stand by the ethics of the National Association of Social Work. My Clifton Strengths are Empathy, Positivity, Input, Activator, and Achiever. As always, it remains my passion, mission, and joy to witness others expand & I am fulfilled by continuing this journey with you. I am always expanding myself too, so I continue to learn, read, and attend extensive continuing trainings. In personal time, I love taking my dogs for runs/walks/hikes, doing yoga/reiki/meditation/breathwork, dancing, riding my motorcycle, being in nature, and spending time with my loved family, friends, colleages, cats, and farm animals. Lol.
First session
I'm just getting to know you the first session. I'll ask a lot of questions about your mental and physical health and history, relationships, current life situations, and anything relevant. I'll take notes this first session, and won't need to the following ones.
Strengths
You are already perfect, whole, and complete now. You are already worthy, valuable, enough, and you matter. This is already set by Universe/Source/Higher Power/Jesus/God. You just get to remember. You get to truly see, feel, and know these words more deeply. You get to be inspired to act more from this honored space; to see aligned actions fruit. Therapy isn't the miracle itself; yet a catalyst for the journey. It could crystallize your clarity, awareness, and drive so that You excel, expand, and allow. Align your true values, goals, highest self, and... find out. Who are you with a spark in your eye? Will it shine clear choice, self control, safety, drive, feeling empowered, and truly knowing and being your fully expressed, highest version of your authentic self? Do you want it to? What do you want? Let's clear, create, see, and allow where a new path will flow. Let's see what's possible. Book asap.
Ideal clients
Populations I'm experienced with are first responders, service members, aviation professionals, teachers, survivors of domestic violence & sexual assault, elderly, and overwhelmed care givers, though I love growing with many. Specializations are trauma/PTSD, anxiety/depression, grief/bereavement, addiction/codependency, relationship/attachment issues, health/wellness, and cultural humility/awareness. Practice modalities used are EMDR, ACT, CBT, MI, IFS, EFT, Attachment based, Trauma-Informed Yoga, Strength's Based, Solution-Focused and more as applicable.
Treatment methods
EMDR
To treat impactful events, symptoms, and trauma. It assists to desensitize mental, emotional, and somatic impact and move from negative to positive cognitions.
Acceptance and commitment (ACT)
Values work to more understand, accept, and stand for the true self.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Parts of the self work to fully understand, communicate with, and know yourself.
Attachment-based
Understanding your human attachments, current, past, and where you want them to be more secure.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Recognizing distortions, negative cognitions, and patterns that don't work so they can be validated yet also re-framed into something that actually works for your current life.
Location
Virtual sessions