I’m a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor serving both North Carolina and Arizona. I have a Master’s degree and currently working toward my Doctorate of Education in Traumatology. As a Certified Clinical Trauma Specialist and I’ve spent the last six years helping children, teens, and adults recover from trauma and build healthier ways to manage their emotions and move closer to optimal wellbeing. Together, we can navigate the tough stuff.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
In our first session together, we'll start with brief introductions, then 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.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
Having worked with a broad range of clients in the past 6 years, I have developed the strength of building rapport and identifying natural strengths to support clients in managing symptoms and moving forward with their goals.
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Person-centered (Rogerian)
Humanistic approach that empowers client to identify their own solutions and reinforce innate strengths.
Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
DBT is used to support clients in managing and reducing the intensity of strong emotions. Clints use practical skills and strategies that can be implemented independently to improve emotional-regulation and interpersonal effectiveness.
EMDR
EMDR incorporated bilateral stimulation via visual, tactile, or auditory stimulation. EMDR is most commonly used to treat C-PTSD and PTSD. Clients can experience relief in symptoms rapidly through EMDR.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
CBT focuses on thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that can lead to a broad range of mental health symptoms. CBT helps clients learn to challenge their ways of thinking and behaving that negatively impact their overall well-being.
Cognitive Processing (CPT)
CPT is used to treat PTSD and C-PTSD and focuses on developing a trauma narrative to identify how the trauma(s) have impacted current well-being. CPT is a cognitive behavioral model that focuses on identifying "stuck points" in trauma narratives that prevent the client from healing. Harmful beliefs are also explored, challenged, and restructured.