It's an honor to get to do this work with you. I hope to provide you with a n experience where you feel seen and heard as you discover your path to healing. I will be present, engaged and supportive as you navigate the work, and I will provide feedback and "homework" to ensure that you are moving toward your goals.

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

In our first session we will begin to develop our relationship--built on trust and compassion. Some of the basic ingredients to build this relationship require my consistent and reliable presence, my attention and focus--on you and your needs, and my expertise to understand you and your distress, and to offer you tools to learn to use for meaningful change and growth in your daily life. We will often begin our work developing your genogram (this is sort of like a family tree, but goes deeper to explore family patterns, dynamics and issues that may travel through the generations). The genogram provides the space for clients to begin to tell the story of their family, thereby offering important information that is specific to each client's experience in the world. I believe that our family culture (everything from how our family talks about--or doesn't talk about--love, gender roles, money, boundaries and so on and so forth) has tremendous influence on how we perceive the world and ourselves in it. The wonderful thing about examining and discovering these patterns is that we can determine which you want to continue to carry forward and which you want to shift to create change and healing that you feel is essential to your overall well-being.

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

Some of the feedback that I receive from clients regarding my strengths as a therapist include being an active therapist - rather than listening with little to no feedback, I guide the client with open-ended questions to incite deeper explorations. I also understand when a client needs space to vent, and create a safe space for clients to dig into their challenges. I also offer homework to focus on between sessions that aim to reinforce discoveries and insight developed in our sessions. Tailored to you and your goals, applicable in your daily life.

About Theresa McCaul