LPC, 8 years of experience
Frequently rebooked
I work with clients who are dealing with major life changing events, anxiety, grief, PTSD, and other traumas. I am a licensed professional counselor working virtually with clients who are physically located in Pennsylvania. I typically work with clients who do too much and are overwhelmed by all of the things they need to do. I love to use brainspotting (it is my favorite thing) and most clients report feeling less bothered by things within 3 months.
First session is typically an interview where I am asking a lot of questions, but not the entire time. We go over the basics, then in the next few sessions we dig deep, and also allow time for the client share what they want to discuss and work on in our sessions. I extend the intake over the first few sessions to help people feel less overwhelmed by the process.
I am direct and will ask the tough questions, but also ask about how you want to use our time, what is most important that we cover. I have a plan and direction, but will gladly set that aside and deal with what you are coming in with.
Are you dealing with too much, struggling to manage all of the things and rediscover who you are and what you want from life. Have you tried talking about it and it doesn't seem to help, I provide a somatic approach to help release what is keeping you stuck and move forward. Talk therapy is helpful and necessary, but is only part of the solution.
Brainspotting is noticing what you are feeling in your body and being intentional about finding a spot in your view (a focal spot) to look at and process the thoughts, feelings, emotions, sensation that come up around a feeling reaction to things that have happened to you in your life. Current events that are coming up and also past traumas.
Trauma Art Narrative Therapy (TANT) is a structured intervention to draw and tell the narrative (about a concrete trauma) in an structured way to help process and do memory reconsolidation. Once the narrative is complete it is set aside for a few weeks, then if you need to talk and process the trauma we can, many people to want to talk it out...but for some the intervention is enough and additional processing is not helpful or needed.
2 ratings with written reviews
August 14, 2025
Very good session really help me be grounded when my head was filled with lots of doubts and struggles.
February 22, 2025
Tina gave me some good advice and a starting point to focus on. This is going to be very beneficial for my mental health.