Hello! I’m Connor and first and foremost I’m a professional counselor. My aim is to work with you in a way that the evidence of progress is apparent in your day to day experiences and relationships. That means you feel a greater sense of autonomy, belongingness, and competency. This means when you're working with me you can expect to be treated with acceptance, positive regard, empathy, and trust.
In our first session, we will complete introductions and begin building a sense of direction for how therapy will benefit you. You don’t have to have an answer ready, it’s ok to be unsure of how this is going to work. The first session we will work together to set an expectation of how this will work and how we’ll know it’s working.
My greatest strength is the ability to be dynamic in session with techniques and interventions to suit the individual I’m working with.
I enjoy working with people of all ages working through transitions. These transitions could be new schools, living in a new area, new job, changes in relationships, boundaries, the list goes on. We can all experience bouts of anxiety, depression, or general emotional distress as a result of change. Clients I have worked with who focused on these kinds of challenges found great potential for improvement or great motivation for resistance. Both provide so much content to work with through the therapeutic process.
I utilize interventions from DBT to help improve insight into mood and improve management of emotions. These skills help build acceptance for what you're feeling and enable greater choice of how your feelings impact your actions.
The tools of CBT build out from the ability to understand the relationship between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Sorting out the relationship between those three aspects of your experience can help you confront adversity and the challenges of your day to day.
One of the most important aspect of our experience in life is derived from our purpose. Developing an understanding that we matter, what we do matters, and having a why to aim ourselves at is a fundamental part of the change process. This is also inherently difficult and often uncomfortable. It’s a challenge so many of us share and so much therapeutic work is often based.