Hello, my name Patrick and I served in three combat tours: serving our country for nine years as a United States Marine. I decided to serve those that are mentally ill in 2013 after my tour of service. After 5 years of study and schooling I got my start in 2017 in a dual-disorder treatment center conducting Intensive inpatient/outpatient groups and utilizing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Interpersonal Therapy as an approach to treating mental health disorders. Today, I specialize in taking an eclectic approach to using interventions looking at the holistic approaches to the human dynamic. This means looking at a person’s relationships and/or lack, cognitive schemas, their behaviors and habits, their priorities, and then determining how interventions and treatment plans will be formulated. I look at a person’s self-concept and determine holistically how their behaviors, thoughts, and patterns are contributing to their problems and functioning. The skills and tools of a therapist are the personal characteristics they bring into therapy: empathy, active listening these aren’t just attributes that look good on paper but are verbal and non-verbal forms of communication; and its these skills I believe what enables successful outcomes in therapy.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
In our first few sessions you can expect me to get a sense of your self-concept and me looking to determine how your behaviors maybe causing you to deviate from the natural expectations that maybe contributing to any symptoms and problems you are experiencing. In the process of our first sessions, we shall also be working on building a strong therapeutic relationship where trust and responsibility to our roles are paramount.
What treatment methods and tools do you utilize?
I gather the way one defines themselves; gathering at how they process information and look at the world around them. Looking at their interpersonal relationships in relation to their microcosm; I look holistically at what's causing the problem or preventing one from growing. Utilizing cognitive behavioral techniques that helps client restructure the way they process thoughts and emotions, while giving them homework that will challenge and build new ways to grow. I also through positive communication help client build relationship skills through interpersonal therapy techniques, that utilizes different comforts of expression in communication.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
Some of my biggest strengths are the maturity of acceptance I have learned to grow in. I find that many disorders come from one's inability to accept some thought or situation they might be experiencing. Many interventions such as EDMR, ACT, and many more are just guided ways to help a client accept a situation or thought. It takes a therapist who can interpret once acceptance level and help guild a client through interventions on maturing acceptance. Some of my strengths come from spending years in the Military and the experiencing that come from combat, that has allowed me to accept situations that most humans would agree are some-what uncomfortable. This is what has allowed me to grow as a human and learn to be comfortable with who I am and what I must encounter.
Describe the client(s) you are best positioned to serve.
Adjustment Disorders. Personality Disorders. PTSD. Substance Use Disorders. Sexual Addiction/Porn