LCSW, 23 years of experience
Hello! I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 22 years experience and a Bachelors level Registered Nurse. I received my degrees from 3 different Florida Public Universities and work with adolescents and adults to be the best versions of themselves.
In our fist session, we will spend some time exploring how you arrived in your current situation, what drove you to seek help, and discuss goals you want to achieve and where you want to be at the end of your healing/therapeutic journey. Your journey is your own and the depths of exploration are yours to choose.
Having worked in the mental health field for over 20 years with various populations in a variety of settings, and with my combined physical and mental health education and experience , I excel in assessing needs and using an individualized approach to building tangible coping skills for measure improvement and success. I encourage skills that enable the mind and body to work together for improved health and coping.
I love using my combined physical and mental health education and experience to help people struggling with emotion regulation, stress, anxiety, indecisiveness about the future, depression, and even suicidality to develop skills to navigate life. My clients are motivated and often have their own answers but need someone to listen, validate and help them see different perspectives, maladaptive patterns and identify skills to make positive changes.
I have used CBT for the past 23 years to help individuals identify how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. We then use this information to create new and helpful ways of coping with stress, anxiety, depression, negative thinking and suicidality.
In my 23 years of experience, I have learned and used a variety of therapy techniques with adults, and adolescents wanting to learn more effective means of coping with anxiety, depressions, grief, suicidality, ADHD, negative self image, and emotional dysregulation. Today, I draw concepts from those techniques to create an approach tailored to individual strengths, challenges, and goals including Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy, Bereavement Therapy, Trauma Informed therapy, Neuro-linguistic Programming, Mind Body Approach, Psychoanalytic, Play Therapy, Strength based and many others.