My name is Tiara Kendrick. I am a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and I started my own counseling practice in Ohio, Zion Counseling and Wellness Enrichment Center, LLC. I have 8 years of counseling and mentoring experience. I live by sayings such as "change your mind then you will change your mood, and change your focus to change your feelings." My personal mission is to provide hope, help, and healing to those in need, including adults, couples, youth, as well as families. I have a passion to build hope for the future and renew clients' point of view about their life. I graduated from the Ohio State University with three degrees as well as a fourth degree from Walden University, providing me with over 12 years of education offering a solid foundation of Mental Health Counseling and Human Development and Family Science studies. This has helped me to understand the needs of various individuals throughout the lifespan and I am comfortable working with various ages. I am positive that I have either the education, or the personal experiences (through working with other clients similar to your needs or through her own growth from the pains and pressures of life) to help support and advocate with you to learn to function better in every area of life. In addition, I offer Christian counseling if requested and we can use prayer, scriptures, and other faith based principles to help you renew your life; emotions, thoughts, and behaviors. I have experience working with clients who need help overcoming depression, reducing anxiety, improving decision making, budgeting, or communication skills, stress management, strengthening your social life, or successfully managing lifestyle changes (from divorce/relationship strains, to job promotions or changes, to parenting struggles or health issues) or healing from trauma.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
From the first session, you will see that I am not the typical counselor. My clients usually enjoy the fact that I am conversational, and I enjoy building trust and rapport with a realistic optimism. I am able to offer you hope and growth in each session. I will challenge you, but also support and help you, to identify the thoughts, behaviors, moods, and patterns that are keeping you stuck. I provide a proven and effective system to help you reduce negative perspectives, deal with negative people and change negative choices and reactions to more healthy, positive, and beneficial ones in order to release peace, confidence, healing, joy, motivation, and other positives in your life. I listen for your strengths and help you use the ones you have and build new ones to change your life!
What treatment methods and tools do you utilize?
I use CBT skills on a regular basis to help you understand how not only situations and actions that happen to you affect you, but also how your opinion about that situation will create feelings and those contribute to your behaviors. I also use strengths based therapy approaches each session to help you identify your resources, and positive characteristics and how we can apply them to the challenges you have come to each session with. I am also very effective at using problem solving, teaching skill building such as communication, budgeting, and coping skills. I often use a solutions focused method as well, where we may look at past times where you have felt more successful, and experienced more happiness and positives to find out what worked in those times and apply them to the present.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
My biggest strengths are working with clients who are experiencing depression, anxiety, managing trauma, dealing with social challenges from relationships to friendships, and those who need help understanding ways to manage stress and change in their life. I like working with various ages from teens to 40s. I am very excited to help you overcome challenges in your social, mental, educational, professional, financial, spiritual, or emotional health. A session with me is like talking to a friend, very conversational, supportive, and easy to relate to. I provide clients with non judgmental, supportive, compassionate, and effective, ethical care to help remove barriers. I work side by side with clients offering feedback and practical ways to apply what is taught in session to you day by day.
Describe the client(s) you are best positioned to serve.
I offer Christian counseling and welcome those from this population and want to use faith based techniques to compliment CBT and other talk therapy strategies.