Hello! I'm Breanne, and I'm a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in North Carolina. I've been in the field for 7 years, and greatly enjoy being an inclusive and person-centered clinician. Primarily, I help people navigate the challenges that come with depression, anxiety, stress and burnout, phase of life changes, and grief. Together, we build effective coping skills to manage life challenges as they come. Everyone approaches this differently, and each person has their own needs in this process. You may need to explore triggers and behaviors, process past traumas, and/or learn how to create and enforce healthy boundaries. Or, you might need to focus on the present moment, one issue at a time. It could be that you just need a little help figuring out how to move forward. Whatever you need, I am here to help you on this journey. We do this together.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
When we first meet my primary goal is to provide a safe space for you. Feel free to be free; talk, cry, yell, scream, laugh, let go of what you've been holding back. This journey that you're on can be tough and rewarding all at the same time. Our first session goal will be to establish a safe space. I'll ask a few questions to get you started if needed, but you may be bursting to capacity to share what's on your heart and mind. This is encouraged and necessary for us to take the first steps toward your path to finding balance and peace.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
By nature, I'm an empathic ambivert. I love to talk, but I also love to listen. I think my greatest strength is connection. The most important part of my work with you will center around our therapeutic alliance. You need me to be engaged and connected to help you navigate whatever brings you here. You also need to feel that you can trust me, and that I respect you, your experiences, contributions, and needs. I prioritize establishing this connection from the very first session. I hope you leave each session empowered and heard.
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Acceptance and commitment (ACT)
I use this approach to help clients focus on staying in the present moment while working toward the acceptance of thoughts and feelings without judgment. We work toward moving through difficult feelings, emotions and life experiences without becoming stuck and focusing on the negatives. This approach helps us focus our efforts and energy toward healing and developing a life that reflects our desired values, rather than ruminating on problems we cannot control.
Attachment-based
While we know that early childhood experiences can have a profound impact on how we see, feel, and experience the world, we don't often realize that this process begins at birth. Our early attachment to our primary caregivers determines much of how we develop and who we become. I use this approach to help clients discover their attachment style, and examine how it impacts their current relationships. We work toward breaking cycles of codependency, and healing from abandonment trauma, abuse, and neglect. Clients who embrace this style of therapy often develop a deeper understanding of themselves in a way that helps them recognize unhealthy attachment patterns that sabotage and damage important relationships in their lives.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
I use CBT to help define a problem, and then identify what thoughts and feelings continue to feed or reinforce that problem in a person's life. Often, the way we think or feel about something that is causing us distress exacerbates the distress. CBT helps us identify unhealthy/irrational patterns of thinking and dysfunctional emotional patterns, so that we can confront them and modify our behavioral responses in ways that improve our quality of life. CBT is often my first approach to helping someone understand a feeling or problem.
Compassion Focused
Compassion-focused therapy is incorporated throughout the way I interact with clients. We are often struggling with feelings of inadequacy, self-criticism, shame, low self-esteem, and negative self-image. There are countless ways we beat up on ourselves, and this approach helps us develop self-compassion and self-love to begin healing the foundational issues that lead to these feelings.
Grief Therapy
In some form or another, grief is present in most of life's difficulties. One of my most rewarding roles was as a grief counselor. I find joy in helping others find peace within grief. It is truly a unique path for everyone who must walk it, and I am here as your companion. I provide support and safe space to just "be". We don't work toward fixing grief, but we learn to live with it in a way that allows us to accept the loss, and continue being open to the idea of a fulfilling life, even when its hard to see what life looks like beyond the loss.