Jamie Dineen
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and I am here to help guide you through life's challenges. I will focus on your strengths to empower you get back on track to continue your journey to achieve your goals. We’ll work through the process together to improve your quality of life. I will provide you tools to navigate life's detours. I also use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness, Solutions Focused Therapy (SFT), Trauma informed care, and take a holistic approach with my partners. I believe in building a partnerships with individuals rather than calling you a client and I am not the clinician that sits in silence and then asks you, "so how does that make you feel?"
First session
Our first session will feel like you are being asked a million questions. I work to make it as comfortable as possible, because I understand how it can feel like an intrusive experience. I will provide you with information about privacy concerns. I will ask you if you have ever met with a therapist in the past and what that experience felt like, what was helpful and unhelpful about that experience. I will inquire about your housing, work, education, relationships, how you spend free time, substance use history, medical history, and family mental health history. I will then explore your current or past mental health diagnosis, triggers, sleep, and appetite.
Strengths
My job is to guide you and equip you with the necessary tools to navigate life’s challenges. I have experience working with individuals and families struggling with negative thought patterns, high conflict, and grief.
Ideal clients
Life can throw us many curve balls. Do you ever feel like you struggle to stay on course when work or school demands so much that it bleeds into your relationships? You are not alone, this can be incredibly challenging for anyone. Unfortunately, many people learn to cope with these stressors by avoiding conflicts in their personal and professional lives that often lead to isolation, resentment, and finding unhealthy ways to cope with it all. My job is to guide you and equip you with the necessary tools to navigate life’s challenges.
Treatment methods
Solution-Focused Brief Treatment
I believe in guiding the client toward solutions that would assist them with their current present issue and future matters that arise
Attachment-based
Many clients have been impacted on some level with that way in which they attached to their caregivers. This is a piece of the puzzle that helps build the foundation in better understand interpersonal relationships.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is helpful to identify negative thought processes, reframing, and looking for the evidence when an individual has negative beliefs about themselves.
Strength-Based
Strength-based is action oriented. Utilizing your strengths is an asset and can be used to leverage current and past successes to achieve your goals.
Mindfulness-Based Therapy
Being aware of how physiological responses to stress and when they begin can help individuals learn how to navigate triggers and responses to stress, anxiety, anger, and many other feelings.
Location
Virtual sessions
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Licensed in
- District of ColumbiaLicense LC200004531
- VirginiaLicense 0904019426