I began my work in the field in 2007 and have been fully licensed since 2017. I consider myself to be an exceptionally empathetic and caring counselor who meets my clients where they're at. I will push my clients to experience emotions and to sit with them in ways they haven't before. However, I do this in a safe manner where we simply expand the limits each time and create safety in each session to fully allow the client to embrace the process. I strive to help my clients make sense of their life and the experiences they've had. I have great respect for each individual's journey and understand there is value in all of us. I strive for all of my clients to feel seen, heard, respected, accepted, and not judged. From the very first session, my clients feel heard through my exceptional empathic listening skills. I ask evocative questions to get to the heart of the matter and to push the client to think more in depth and perhaps even with a different perspective about struggles or experiences that have caused them strife.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
I always tell my clients that the first session is an "information download". It is a "get to know each other" session where you're learning about me and I'm learning about you. We will talk about what is bringing you to seek therapy and also where you're coming from. You will feel seen and heard as I actively listen to you and ask clarifying and evocative questions to seek more information from you. You will feel my sense of curiosity and my genuine desire to get to know you and the struggle you are coming to me with. When we finish the session, you will always have space and time to share thoughts that you've not mentioned and to ask questions. At the end of the session, you can expect to feel a sense of hope for what is to come in our work together.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
As a provider, I find that my empathy is an exceptional strength but more than that is my genuine curiosity to get to the heart of the matter. I will ask challenging questions. I have an exceptional ability to see patterns, trends, and gather the emotion I am seeing in the session to help my clients find healing and peace in their world. I have excellent verbal and non-verbal communication skills that helps my clients to feel seen and heard.
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Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
At the core of this method is our emotions. Being safe enough to feel them and process them. Sitting with them and moving through them so we can get to the other side. What you will find in working with me is you will feel safe and accepted as you dive into allowing yourself to explore your emotions. I find that when I use this method with my clients I see a significant reduction in their levels of anxiety and depression.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Cognitive behavioral therapy has become a staple in my practice as, for many of my clients struggling with anxiety and depression, assessing our thoughts, questioning them and shifting them proves to be very successful. This can be an intensive therapy that requires work outside the sessions to get the results you're looking for. It will involve "homework" where you'll get out of it what you put into it. Don't worry, you aren't graded and there is no "pass/fail" with this work. You get to decide how you interact with the process.
Grief Therapy
Grief can be a very complicated process. From the outside, it seems it should be simple and straight forward, but when we find ourselves facing intense grief in our own lives, it can feel overwhelming and we can often feel so lost in the emotions. Part of our work together in grief therapy is giving you the time and space to process all of your thoughts and emotions around the loss. It's important for us to recognize it's not a straight path forward. It can often feel like we've made such great progress and then we find ourselves falling back to places we've felt we were past. This therapy requires great grace and willingness to sit with the emotions.