I have been successful helping clients return to healthy and dynamic lives who have experienced severe anxiety, depression, and debilitating trauma from physical, emotional and sexual abuse. I have also helped families and couples with relationship issues including; frustrated parents with young children and/or challenging teenagers, couples stuck in bad communication cycles, and people who have lost themselves, their motivation and direction.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
In the first session I will learn what you want from therapy, past experiences that influence your current behaviors and thinking and explore current life challenges. We will then create a plan based on the goals we explore and discover together.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
I listen to the individual and their unique experience. I help clients identify faulty thinking and beliefs about themselves and the world around them. I help clients create new self-awareness based on current needs and desires. I create a safe and secure space to process trauma and explore identity. I help clients identify nonfunctional coping skills and help them create healthy coping skills and self-care programs that fit their lives.
Describe the client(s) you are best positioned to serve.
Clients ready to make changes in their lives to improve their self-esteem, relationships, anxiety, stress, depression, and over all improve their daily lives. Clients ready to recover from trauma, unhealthy family dynamics, unhealthy communication patterns, and lack of proper boundaries. Couples seeking to create healthy loving relationships where they feel safe, loved, and appreciated.
About Carolyn Risbrudt
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5855 Capistrano Avenue, Atascadero, CA 93422, Suite HAppointments
Virtual & in-personMy treatment methods
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
I use CBT therapy to help clients identify faulty thinking patterns and to stop automatic negative thoughts that plague a lot of people. I use CBT with other modalities to help clients reach their goals.
Couples Counseling
I help couples improve communication, identify needs that are not being addressed, and learn to work together toward common goals. My clients have learned how they can best meet each other's needs. My clients also learn to create balance in their lives and relationships. I help couples recover from years of poor communication, anger, resentment, infidelity, and lack of trust.
EMDR
I help clients process and recover from traumatic events and trauma filled childhoods so they can live happy productive lives. My clients that use EMDR see results and changes in their lives quickly, without the usual lengthy verbal processing of other methods.
Humanistic
I believe that each person is the expert on their lives. I work with clients using their knowledge of themselves to help create growth and change. I use different modalities as needed to help my clients work toward their goals, learn more about what motivates them, and learn what they need to be their best selves.