Miraf Kebede
Miraf Kebede
(she/her)
I'm bilingual independent Clinical social worker with background 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. I speak Amharic language.
Get to know me
In our first session together, here's what you can expect
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.
The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions
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
The clients I'm best positioned to serve
I love working with young adult, adult with different cultural background. I love to work collaborate with my clients to explore individualized mental health challenges, negative feelings and the sources, ways of improving and changing some negative thoughts with positive thoughts to overcome the challenges and cope with overwhelming. Open the door to learn from challenges and using as opportunity for growth, maximize potentials.
About Miraf Kebede
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VirtualMy treatment methods
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