Hello, my name is Shurla and I am a Board Licensed Clinical Social Worker and the Founder of Restorative Thoughts Counsel. I received a Master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Alabama and a Bachelor’s degree in Social Work from Oakwood University. With over a decade of experience in social services and more than seven years dedicated to mental health care, I am deeply committed to fostering healing ad growth.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
Individual counsel is unique and significant to the healing process. One-on-one work offers the client an exclusive and confidential space to process personal experiences and unpack thoughts that are impacting their everyday life. Significant events can be processed as well as minor life stressors that cause mood challenges. At Restorative Thoughts Counsel, we create a unique treatment plan for every client based on their needs and identified goals for treatment. We provide this individual counsel to adolescents and adults.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
My greatest strength as a provider is my ability to be empathetic to clients and meet them wherever they are at. I strive to create an emotionally safe environment for my clients to be vulnerable and also challenge my clients to harness their strengths and resilience that my have lead them to seeking care.
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Trauma Informed Care
A specific approach to therapy that recognizes and emphasizes understanding how the traumatic experience impacts a person's mental, behavioral, emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being. This type of therapy is rooted in understanding the connection between the trauma experience and the person's emotional and behavioral responses. The purpose of trauma-focused therapy is to offer skills and strategies to assist a person in better understanding, coping with, and processing emotions and memories tied to traumatic experiences, with the end goal of enabling your child to create a healthier and more adaptive meaning of the experience that took place in his/her life.
Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a modified type of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). Its main goals are to teach people how to live in the moment, develop healthy ways to cope with stress, regulate their emotions, and improve their relationships with others. DBT was originally intended to treat borderline personality disorder (BPD), but it has been adapted to treat other mental health conditions. It can help people who have difficulty with emotional regulation or are exhibiting self-destructive behaviors (such as eating disorders and substance use disorders). This type of therapy is also sometimes used to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is a type of psychotherapeutic treatment that helps people learn how to identify and change destructive or disturbing thought patterns that have a negative influence on behavior and emotions. Cognitive-behavioral therapy focuses on changing the automatic negative thoughts that can contribute to and worsen emotional difficulties, depression, and anxiety. These spontaneous negative thoughts have a detrimental influence on mood. Through CBT, these thoughts are identified, challenged, and replaced with more objective, realistic thoughts.
Solution Focused Brief Treatment
Solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) places focus on a person's present and future circumstances and goals rather than past experiences. In this goal-oriented therapy, the symptoms or issues bringing a person to therapy are typically not targeted. Instead, a qualified therapist encourages those in treatment to develop a vision of the future and offers support as they determine the skills, resources, and abilities needed to achieve that vision successfully.