Do you feel like finding the "right" therapist is impossible? From my perspective, a therapist's role means helping the client identify new skills to handle stressors and obstacles, gain insight and self-awareness as a foundation for those skills, and develop the ability to self-regulate during periods of distress. My style is laid-back but straightforward and honest, my goal is to help you navigate barriers and issues to achieving overall wellness. My job as your therapist is not to "fix you", IT IS to help you learn how to process stressors and life events. The purpose of therapy is to help you become more capable and adaptable, and teach you how to change and maintain your well-being defined by you. Perspective is everything.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
I utilize an individualized perspective to help clients achieve identified goals. The clients' worldview impacts everything and cannot be excluded. I can spoon-feed skills, ideas, and insights all day but focusing on specifics that align with the person is most beneficial. If you don't see the value in something, the likelihood of making changes is not great.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
My specialty areas include addiction and substance misuse, anxiety and panic disorders, general mental health, general relationship challenges (family, friends, co-workers), personal growth and self-esteem, interpersonal conflicts and boundaries, and mood regulation issues.
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Solution Focused Brief Treatment
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) is a short-term goal-focused evidence-based therapeutic approach composed of positive practices which help clients make changes by creating solutions instead of focusing on present issues. The basic idea is to foster hope, increase positive emotions, focus on future-oriented strategies for creating, motivating, achieving, and maintaining desired behavioral change. Using feasible and realistic solutions that align with the person is vital in achieving changes that will be lasting and effective for the individual.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
CBT focuses on examining thinking patterns and making changes in those to improve functioning. Thoughts impact feelings and behavior, changing the thoughts of this 3 part system leads to changes in the other 2 components. This therapeutic strategy helps the clients to gain awareness, identify areas of change, and make the needed modifications to manage stress and issues independently. The role of your therapist is to help you learn how to better cope in life when faced with difficulties.