I'm so glad you found me! I love working with adults concerning anxiety, depression and trauma. Anxiety isn't just fear or nervousness. Anxiety happens when we aren't willing to process difficult emotions. Anxiety can present itself through anger/projection, isolation, busy-ness, and being unusually overwhelmed. As I operate within the Bowen Family Systems theory, a safe space is created that promotes the ability to process these undesired emotions lending the ability to promote emotional resiliency, maturity and balance! My enthusiasm in working with adults who've suffered from past traumas through EMDR is unmatched. EMDR is a type of therapy where past traumas are processed in a safe/controlled manner. I've found most fulfilment in utilizing EMDR with parental wounds. Once those wounds are processed, clarity to withdraw from current dysfunctional patterns can be achieved.

What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?

During our first session, I'll be covering logistics and a few ethical pieces as well as setting the foundation with more information on the theory that I work out of. Once that's done, I leave room to brief client's history, current circumstances and overall goals. Overtime, we'll continue to unravel past circumstances so that we're able to address current issues in order to reach those original goals.

Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.

I believe my greatest strength as a provider is my ability to utilize the theory that I've been trained within. I've seen other providers utilize several different theories at once and sometimes that can be confusing to the client and muddies the overall journey towards the goals at hand.

Describe the client(s) you are best positioned to serve.

My typical clients are adults who are finding themselves in unhealthy patterns, or cycles. These cycles are typically dominated by emotions that are hard to identify. Emotions, once embraced, hold tons of information and that information is extremely useful. However, because some emotions are difficult to embrace we often times find ourselves avoiding them and as a result we lose out on data that is necessary if we want to end unhealthy cycles.

About Tonea Smith

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