LISW, 30 years of experience
I am a licensed Independent Social Work Therapist with 30 years of experience in the mental health field and more than 10 years as a therapist. I work with adults from age 18 throughout the life span who are dealing with a variety of life issues and feelings of stress, unhappiness along with other negative emotions.. I welcome you so we can work together to help you feel comfortable with sharing things that are very important to you as a unique individual. Do you feel it will be helpful if you can find additional ways to understand your self, along with your personal needs and things that will help you improve your feelings of comfort and satisfaction. You can be dealing with complicated life issues with an important relationship, uncomfortable change or the painful situation of losing some one or something special. We can work together to develop ways that work for you as an individual which will help you meet to feel your goals to feel happier. I enjoy helping people be happy when they have reached personal growth and found positive ways to help themselves.
During our first session, I will discuss the therapy process, and be more than happy to answer questions or address concerns. We will then complete the intake assessment which will help me obtain the information that gives us direction to start the process. We will also focus any areas from the past or present which are interfering with your feeling content or happy in your present life. We will then discuss the areas you want to have positive change with and develop treatment goals.
I know it is important to build a comfortable therapeutic relationship with in a short period of time. In order to help you feel comfortable I know you deserve to be treated as a unique individual and I will make a point to learn the important things that can help therapy be successful.
I have a long history of experience with adults age 18 and over. This includes adults at various stages of life as young adults, middle age adults and older adults. You can be dealing with feelings of unhappiness, or other difficult emotions for a long time. you can also be dealing with a difficult life situation as conflict in a relationship, a significant loss, life transition, lack of satisfaction with an important activity feeling unhappy with school, or employment, or needing to make a change.. Client's can be experiencing emotional issues which interfere with you experiencing life to your potential, as frequent feelings of unhappiness, loss of interest in things you used to enjoy, lack of motivation to accomplish important things, feeling stressed, worried, mood swings, frequently feeling irritable or getting angry easily.
There is a strong relationship between our thoughts, emotions and behavior, which are related to the various things we experience. These can be how we have been conditioned to deal with situations which can be similar to the past experiences or ways we deal with new important circumstances. I have experiences helping people identify their un healthy thoughts and behavioral patterns according to what they feel has been causing problems. The goal is to develop healthy ways to think about things to replace unhealthy patterns of thinking which can be extremes as all or nothing thinking to a more balanced and realistic perspective. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps us understand the relationship between our thoughts, emotions and behavior. We can all have unhealthy thoughts that distort reality and cause us more stress because of the extreme nature of them rather than seeing things in a more balanced manner. These thoughts can contribute to having negative emotions. The combination of negative thoughts and emotions can contribute to us handling a difficult situation in a more extreme way than needed which causes us further problems. d Examples are thoughts of situations being either right or wrong ( with out seeing any areas in between, ) drawing conclusions about situations with out knowing all the facts, and thinking we can know what other people are thinking. Do you have some situations or thoughts about things happening in the past or present which causes you to feel unhappy? I will help you develop healthier ways of seeing the problem and coping with your emotions. We will also explore the ways you have been dealing with the problem and either develop an Action Plan or healthier ways to cope if the situation can not be changed.
Another treatment method I use is Dialectical Behavioral Therapy or DBT. This is a evidence based approach that helps improve mental health conditions as depression, anxiety, post traumatic stress disorder and borderline personality disorder. This involves 4 sections and we will focus on the ones that are the most relevant to your situation. These sections focus on the areas of managing stress, improving our negative emotions, and relationships. The focus is to help us find a balance with our thoughts, emotions (as stopping to think for a moment before reacting in anger, ) and a balance between caring for our personal needs and the needs of others. This approach helps us develop a healthier more balanced way of dealing with emotions and relationships.
I will also utilize Motivational Interviewing to help focus on a specific problem you want to change and respect your possibility of having mixed feelings and not always being a smooth process, with the fact that there is no judgement and everyone's process is unique.
3 ratings with written reviews
August 16, 2025
Really happy with my first session & looking forward to our next session next weekend. Very good listener and calm spirit. Thank you for your time Nadine!
May 10, 2025
Nadine was so easy to speak with and she was great at pinpointing what I needed even before I even knew. Even though this was my first session, I am so hopeful that my life will change positively with Nadine’s help.
April 9, 2025
Very easy to talkto. She’s very open minded and made me feel very comfortable. She is a great listener. I’m very excited to have more appointments with her