31 years of experience
My name is Faythe Schweiger, LMHC, QS I have been offering alternative perspectives, possibilities, and future-focused, solutions, within a safe, and nonjudgmental space, since 1993 My personalized, eclectic, unique, and conversational team style approach, involves and assisting clients in a client-motivated and directed path. Within my 30 years of experience, what I've observed and slowly acquired through all of the diverse populations I have gotten to learn from, is to understand, value, and recognize, that 2 people can be in the exact same situation at the exact same time, and one person doesn't understand why the other person is making such a big deal It is important to remove judgment when working to improve your mental well-being. When we don’t fear judgment, it reinforces that no reaction or emotion is “wrong”. Emotions can go through various stages, which is completely normal. It's important to recognize that personal responses are individual, various, and unique.
To gain recognition that WE DON'T know others' perspectives, their feeling, beliefs, their past, or family, is imperative. How can I assist anyone if I can not indeed have respect for their belief system? I provide an open and safe space to listen to each individual's unique experiences, to assist in easing any confusing feelings that may be silently occurring, and to provide a positive outlet. Each person views the world from their life experience, not yours.
I would say, within a conversational context, based on individualizing what individualized concerns are, I lean towards, CBT, Motivational Interviewing, Mindfulness, Solution-Focused Therapy, Trauma-Informed, Client Focused, and completely Nonjudgmental approaches
My strengths are rapport trust building, honesty, we do, what we do, Because we wanted to at that moment in time, there's no right or wrong, there are many different ways to view things, My niché is willingness, I don't know the answers to anything... but I do know how to hear inconsistency in voice, tone, denial, and patterns, I just ask a few questions to see if clients hear themselves too.
Teens, Young adults, 20's - 30's Self-harming, childhood trauma, attachment concerns, anger, violence, drug addiction, alcohol abuse, gang activity, high risk - domestic violence, Theraputic Supervised Visitation Provider, Trauma Personality disorders Narsisistic disorders