Hello! I am a Licensed Professional Counselor doing therapy in Pennsylvania. I have a deep love of Nature, mindfulness, hard work, athletics, art and being human. I approach counseling in a non-directive way that assumes you know a lot more about you than I do, and know we work best when each is contributing. I maintain a space that is secure and accepting for you to examine how you are, and to safely experiment with what you want to change about how you live in relationship to yourself, others and the world.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
Our first session will include the opportunity for us to get to know one another a little following the completion on your intake form. I will be happy to answer all your questions, especially about how therapy works if you have never done it before. This is the time for you to allow whatever it is that brings you to the room to be shared and to set us off in a direction you believe will be helpful. We'll settle on a diagnosis and compose a plan for what will be helpful.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
My clients that I have worked most closely with have told me that they have appreciated my ability to remain non-judgmental above all. I truly see each of us as doing our best with what we are aware we have to work with. I deeply respect people willing to do personal work, and I feel privileged to be a part of it.
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Gestalt
A gestalt approach emphasizes dialog, awareness of what is going on in your experience and how you make sense of your being. Rather than providing you answers and advice, I trust that whatever you are doing that brings you into therapy is founded on the basic desire to thrive. A gestalt approach seeks to find out together how you might be able to both accept yourself as is while remaining open to changing if that’s what’s pressing.
Attachment-based
So much of what we experience is filtered through a brain and nervous system that was formed long before we had agency - according to our experiences as children. Sometimes how we respond to people and experiences now can be mysterious to us. I find that it can be very helpful to be mindful of how we attached to our early caregivers in tracking how we react, respond and process our living today, so that we can be more conscious and accepting of ourselves.
Motivational Interviewing
Motivational Interviewing helps me to remain completely open and nonjudgmental in exploring the balance between the usefulness and harm of whatever you are doing.
Faith based therapy
Our spirituality is as much a part of us as our mind and physical body. I am comfortable working with you in whatever way you access the Sacred religiously, or perhaps you feel a pull towards exploring dvinity through less traditional avenues. Relaxing our rigid thinking brain in favor of spiritual practices such as prayer, meditation and ritual can be absolutely key in coping with the suffering that we all experience as human beings. Spirituality is the connection that heals.
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