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ideal client will seek assistance in transitioning from current and past negative experiences that may be impacting your ability to move on without the pains and uncontrollable symptoms of emotional distress. Is mental illness preventing you from enjoying healthy living and causing self defeating thoughts and patterns of poor mental health functioning. Call now , help is available. You don’t have to face life alone. I have over twenty five years of clinical experience in the behavioral health field. Why not seek to understand the connection between your thoughts, beliefs and interpretations of life, and the connection between the sum of your life experiences and your emotional and mental health symptoms. Let’s explore your specific life challenges, together. I understand , we all have emotional baggage. Yes, it’s possible to get your life balance back. Seek help today. You deserve it.
You can expect to be treatment with dignity and respect and have an opportunity to express your current reason for counseling. Listening is a great skill used to allow you to express your thoughts and feeling withour feeling embarrassed or afraid to share your innermost thoughts about your concerns, goals and objectives for your treatment. I will explain the therapeutic modalities used in sessions and the types of interventions used in therapy sessions based on your presenting needs. I enjoy using CBT to assist you in understanding how life experiences can follow an individual throughout their life span. Explaining how distortions often cause negative symptoms that become burdensome . It's important to discuss your cognitive interpretations and belief that may be causing distress.
My biggest strengths are my ability to connect with individuals in a empathetic, understanding way with an open mind and heart. I love my profession and my ability to help individuals connect the dots of what may be causing their current symptoms of emotional, behavioral, and social negative life experiences. Your wellbeing deserves the attention to your specific life experiences. Your treatment plan will reflect strategies specific person centered treatment.
I work with all age groups, and my skills are adaptable to all age levels due to 25 yrs of professional clinical experience.
WHenever requested I intergrate the faith perspective into the therapy session for individuals that rely on their higher power for strength.
I strongly believe in looking at an individuals thoughts, feeling, interpretations and life experiences that may have shaped how they feel about themselves and the impact out beliefs have on negative cognitive beliefs about those life experinces, good and bad life experiences.
Family systems impact lives in various ways. I intergrate several theories into practive. The theories I have identified her are all relative and can easily become intergrated into a person centered approach. I also use Behavioral, DBT, and other theories of practice that will be person centered. It not possible to list all my skills because the premise of the long standing theorethical perspectives are based on psycodynamic views of the life experience.