Hello, I'm Kaela and I'm currently licensed in Florida with 4 years of professional work experience. I attended University of Central Florida for undergrad and graduate school- go Knights! I am dedicated to mental health, driven by my passion of helping others see their worth, creating boundaries, develop coping skills, seek perspective all with the hope to create their most fulfilled lives.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
In our first session together, we'll start with introductions and building rapport, then we'll dive into the specific challenges you're facing. This will help me create a tailored plan for us to work through in follow-up sessions. My top priority is creating a safe, open, and supportive environment. Clients are empowered to develop coping strategies, strengthen resilience, and navigate life's challenges through critical thinking and problem-solving skills, while also learning to better understand their emotions and how regulate them. As our emotions directly impact our thoughts, feelings, and actions.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
I truly care about helping my clients thrive and succeed. My priority is to create a safe, nonjudgmental, and supportive space where they feel understood and valued. My goal is to empower clients to build a lasting resilience that will carry them through life’s challenges. We all encounter situations, relationships, and family dynamics that can wear us down, and sometimes we need a bit of support to navigate those moments. Gaining clarity about who you are and who you want to become influences every area of your life. Once you understand your true self, we can work together to align your thoughts, feelings, and actions with this authentic vision. My aim is to help you move toward the best, truest version of yourself.
About Kaela Champion
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Strength-Based
Strengths-based focuses on identifying and amplifying the strengths and capabilities of individuals, rather than emphasizing their weaknesses or problems. I believe that people are resourceful and resilient, and that their existing strengths can be used to overcome challenges, build confidence, and achieve goals. This also helps build positive self-esteem and helps to negative issues later down the road working to process situations with strengths in mind. Focusing on one's strengths helps find empowerment that we are capable.
Motivational Interviewing
Motivational interviewing ties into strength-based practice and CBT. It's a client-centered approach that aims to help individuals explore and resolve ambivalence about behavior change. The goal of motivational interview is to help individuals find and strengthen their own motivations for change rather than imposing external reasons or pressures. Motivational interviewing relies on collaboration, perspective, and the recognition that ambivalence about change. This method is practiced with many open-ended questions to get the client thinking a little more in depth.
Solution Focused Brief Treatment
Solution-Focused Therapy is a goal-oriented, future-focused approach to therapy that emphasizes building solutions rather than analyzing problems. This method will help individuals or families identify their strengths and resources, set concrete goals, and create action plans to address current challenges. Solution focused is brief and to the point that looks at immediate and actionable steps towards change. Finding a solution can tend to make us feel better, looking for solutions if a positive action step we can take, it can also help remove anxiety from a situation.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
CBT works by helping individuals identify unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors and then replace them with healthier, more constructive ones. The idea of restructuring our thoughts as they are interconnected to our emotions and behaviors. As humans, we can get stuck in unhealth patterns and not even realize it, this is a way to break those patterns and find ways to implement ones that are beneficial to the individual.
Narrative
Narrative Therapy is a collaborative, empowering approach that helps individuals reframe and reshape their personal narratives to emphasize resilience, strengths, and possibilities. When people begin to see themselves as authors of their life, they can make meaningful changes by rewriting narratives that better reflect their values, strengths, and future goals. Being able to see where a client is at by simply listening to their narrative is important, then perspective and reflection comes into play to see if there's ways we can set up that individual to create a different narrative for a situation, relationship, etc.