(she/her)
New to Grow
I have a background in community education and acute medical social work. I work 2 days a week in an acute medical/psychiatric ER. Together we will map your anxiety - a truly fascinating and vulnerable process. We will gradually distinguish medical issues from psychological/emotional distress and I will encourage you to build your daily, weekly, monthly and yearly habits to ensure your health. We will find insights, feel feelings (rather than judge or avoid them), attune to our needs and build a plan for healing and health.
Our first session will be a little more structured as we explore a bio-psycho-social-spiritual assessment and set treatment goals. As we work together we'll develop our own flow and adjust as needed.
I admire and value my clients - they are risking vulnerability and working hard to heal. I genuinely care for each client and want to work myself out of a job.
Individual clients are willing to explore medical rule outs as needed and engage other specialties to achieve health. This might mean making appointments with your primary care, getting routine lab work done and contacting other specialists as needed. In addition we will develop a wellness schedule to ensure your mind, body and soul are getting movement, nourishment and care each week. Families are willing to utilize a structured model of identifying goals and agreeable to approaching problem solving within our relationships - not as peers outside of a family structure. Adult children never become their own parents. Parents do not become their own children. We respect each role and the relevant responsibilities and related power disparities.
Other specialties
I identify as
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Together we will engage in a proactive plan to begin addressing your emotional and mental distress, as well as taking steps towards health. CBT is helpful for anxiety mapping.
Biofeedback
Our bodies are giving us messages all the time. I will ask you to meet with your primary practitioner and any other related medical specialists to ensure we do not pathologize a medical issue. As we learn how to attune to our own body we begin to acknowledge and care for unmet needs.
Trauma Informed Care
Through a process of compassionate inquiry we can begin to care for ourselves and acknowledge our traumatic injuries, how we are impacted and how to heal.
Christian Counseling
Our beliefs are an essential part of how we understand ourselves and experience life. This is not "spiritual counseling" as provided by a spiritual leader - but rather we can integrate faith structure into our session. Recovery from high control religion, deconstruction of harmful beliefs and construction of liberating beliefs can transform our healing process.