I work with each client on a individual basis first assessing for need and history taking. The focus is on current symptoms and emotional or mental stresses that make our quality of life questioned. We then goal plan together on the most prominent and impactful issues we've talked about. From there we work on those goals each session and allow for fluidity in session content while remaining focused on goal progress and symptoms reduction or elimination.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
In the first session we work on some assessment scenes tools, and do quite a bit of story or history taking; as it relates to what you have brought in as your reasoning for reaching out for therapy/counsleing.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
I am intelligent, compassionate, and humanistic. I have many years of experience as a social worker at the bachelors and masters level. I have worked in public school for years in El Salvador, Grand Rapids, MI Traverse City MI and Suttons Bay MI. I have worked in Refugee services, family housing outreach and homelessness prevention, prisoner reentry, Migrant family education program recruiting and school social work for general education. I also have years of varied related experience: Spanish/English interpretation and translating, ELL teaching in public and private schools (El Salvador, GRPS and TCAPS), Human Resources (natural food co-op), purchasing (harvest health foods) and worked as a nanny and a server in my earlier years. I have worked with people from all over the world and in many different circumstances. I have the capacity to see the greater picture of the importance and value of the individual. I love my vocation and it is a gift.
About Danielle Christine
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3197 Logan Valley Rd, Traverse City, MI 49684Appointments
Virtual & in-personMy treatment methods
Psychoeducation
Increasing awareness of the concept of mental health and how it is present in our social world and in our relationships with ourself and others can be pivotal in healing mental health difficulties.
Child Parent Psychotherapy
The relationship between parent or care giver and child is profoundly impactful on the sense of mental, emotional, physical and spiritual wellness for everyone involved; especially the child.
EMDR
EMDR is the most widely accepted evidence based method for healing neurologically archived traumatic memory and its influence on choice and action.
Grief Therapy
Grief is unique to each of us and also unique to each circumstance. Acknowledging the presence of grief in our hearts allows us to move forward in noticing how it is showing up in our days and nights, allowing a the opportunity to address what it needs from us.
Mindfulness-Based Therapy
Dissociative tendencies enable us to make choices and say things that don't reflect what we really believe, know and value. It can impact our most significant relationships; with ourselves and with those we love the most when left unaddressed.