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New to Grow
Welcome to your emotional safe space where we can collaborate on reliving your psychological roadblocks and distresses as, "Together we achieve freedom". A warm hello to you from this Masters Degree level Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (L.C.P.C.) of over 20yrs of real-world experience in counseling, of which the last 9yrs as a licensed professional serving ADULTS (18+) only preferred. I am an empathetic, humourous, and straight talker Psychotherapist from the theoretical orientation of CBT, Trauma-informed, ACT, DBT distress tolerance and interpersonal effectiveness skill development, and Brief Solution-Focused therapy approaches to your long-term healing journey.
Within your first sessions my clients may expect a warm greeting, explanation of tasks for this initial session, how therapy can impact them cognitive-emotionally, and completion of an initial diagnostic evaluation to form the baseline functioning to guide individualized treatment planning. Client may ask questions for clarity of the therapeutic process and expectations of each session in a most respectful and patient manner.
I bring strengths of over 50 seasoned years of life experiences overcoming life adversities, extensive Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor training accompanied with understanding of human behaviors that empower and disempower and a teaching style coupled with humor to therapeutically disarm the intensity of emotional pains in some situations. My patient, straight-talk, and honest approach to elicit healing have often kept clients remain engaged in therapy sessions until they have demonstrated consistent progressive changes bringing cognitive-emotional relief most often than not.
My ideal client is one who demonstrates moderate to high lifestyle functioning and wants straight-talk, collaborative, strengths-based approach to their structured sessions. Client and counseling may be using specific treatment concerns of co-dependency, anxiety, divorce, grief and bereavement, trauma-informed process, relationship issues,.These clients are able to independently self regulate appropriately for a telehealth platform, complete and engage in discussing therapeutic homework assignments, be motivated for treatment and open-minded to therapeutic feedback for identifying emotions and triggers to their own distress, employed or in school, demonstrate resilience, have some level of self-awareness and insight into their symptoms or behaviors, demonstrate the independent use of baseline effective coping strategies, open-minded to learning new skills and change thoughts with behaviours, and demonstrate ability to effectively communicate verbally and non-verbally. Client will further demonstrate therapeutic compliance with prescribed medication and/ or behavioral modification, engage in building therapeutic rapport for developing problem-solving skills, and maintain lifestyle responsibility roles above baseline lifestyle functioning.
Counselor will assist client with individual personal concerns and tailoring treatment approaches to those individual needs for growth using collaboration
Client and counselor will actively participate in this treatment intervention method to assist client with understanding of the interconnectedness of their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and how to reduce self-defeating actions
Counselor will assist client with using this therapy approach to learn how to live a meaningful life that will increase client mental capacity to accept difficult thoughts and feelings adapting using one or more of the six core processes introduced by counselor