I am a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, and I am based in Eastern Ky with clients statewide via Telehealth. I have 10 years’ experience working with children, youth and young adults. I have worked with many different behavioral health conditions with specialized training in trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy. I also have experience working with adults with many different behavioral health conditions and substance use.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
In our first session together we will work to get to know each other, your main concerns and identify areas that you would like to work on. We will use this time to develop a care plan that address your wants and needs.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
Having worked in many different mental health and substance treatment i carry a good amount of knowledge that can be helpful for you to identify you concerns and ways to achieve goals
About Samantha Coots
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Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
I use CBT to help you take a close look at your thoughts and emotions. You’ll come to understand how your thoughts affect your actions. Through CBT, you can unlearn negative thoughts and behaviors and learn to adopt healthier thinking patterns and habits. CBT usually takes place over a limited number of sessions. You will learn to identify problematic core beliefs, including central ideas about yourself and the world. People experiencing psychological issues can learn better ways of coping with them. This can help relieve their symptoms and improve their mental and emotional health.
Strength-Based
therapist provides a list of strengths with definitions and works with the client to identify which strengths apply to them. Clients can use the list as a starting point to identify their strengths. therapist encourages the client to examine their weaknesses and identify ways these qualities can be reframed as strengths. For example, someone who worries about what others are thinking might be very compassionate and caring. This is used as a starting point to identify how these behaviors or qualities can be used to improve the client’s mindset or quality of life.
Motivational Interviewing
Therapist will have a Partnership with client to help with a collaborative process. The practitioner is an expert in helping people change; people are the experts of their own lives. People have within themselves resources and skills needed for change. therapist will help client find the resources within themselves to find skills to aid in that change. MI draws out the person’s priorities, values, and wisdom to explore reasons for change and support success. The MI therapist takes a nonjudgmental stance, seeks to understand the person’s perspectives and experiences, expresses empathy, highlights strengths, and respects a person’s right to make informed choices about changing or not changing. Therapist will show Compassion and actively promotes and prioritizes clients’ welfare and wellbeing in a selfless manner.