I'm bilingual independent social worker with background with public health. Working in physical and mental health sector for about 17 years. I specifically working on mental health therapy for the last 6 years. I work collaboratively with my clients to help them increase self-awareness, understand the interpersonal and emotional aspects of change and growth, and identify patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that impact their day-to-day activities. I will help you in building better coping skills to overcome difficulties that have impacted your life
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
In our first session. We will start brief introduction then I will learn about specific client needs and Goals, I will learn my client expectations and I will explain my expectations. This will help to plan for our next follow up sessions.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
Having 17 years work experience in physical health and mental health. I will collaborate with you to identify your personal mental health and wellness challenges, how to overcome or cope with it, identify personalized health coping skills and create a tailored plan that leads to measurable progress
About Miraf Kebede
Miraf Kebede offers therapy covered by Kaiser Permanente - Medicaid and UnitedHealthcare/Optum - Medicaid in Virginia.
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Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Explore client thought patterns, behaviors, feelings , explore the connections and how it affect each other and how its affect our day to day routines, life Goals...
Strength-Based
chooses their techniques based on the client’s unique needs, exploring client strength , reviewing, using open ended questions, reframing barriers or weakness-normalizing the weakness , maximizing usage of strength for day to day routines, tracking or journaling
Cognitive Processing (CPT)
Help the client to be aware about trauma effect, aware about the feelings due to unaddressed traumatic events , explore individualized symptom, teach skills /the way of challenging unhelpful thoughts , explore changing belief regarding traumatic events or effects
Culturally Sensitive Therapy
recognize and understand my own culture and how it influences my relationship with a client, integrate cultural sensitivity practices into the treatment recognize and respect differences and take steps to communicate and interact empathetically with my clients from diverse backgrounds
Grief Therapy
Grief experience is individualized, learn the type of the grief, the losses and provide individualized intervention , introduce the grief stages, process the feelings based on the stages , normalized and teach coping skills