LP, 12 years of experience
New to Grow
My name is S. Bryce Bennett, Psy.D. I am a clinical psychologist that practices in both clinical forensic settings. I also have extensive experience providing both group and individual therapy. I specialize in trauma; I am a Certified Adolescent and Child Trauma Professional, a Clinically Certified Trauma Professional, and a Certified Family Trauma Professional. In addition to trauma, I also specialize in treating juveniles with sexually maladaptive behaviors; pornography concerns; adults with sexual paraphilias or sexual behavior concerns; and have experience treating individuals with a variety of other mental health diagnoses. I also have extensive experience with working with clients that have an Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis and have worked with multiple youths and adults with this diagnosis. During the COVD-19 pandemic, I successfully transitioned my groups to telehealth, and then returned to in-person groups in ’23. I also successfully transitioned my individual client caseload to telehealth, and have continued telehealth practice since this time. In my free time, I enjoy cooking and baking, painting, listening to music or Dungeon and Dragons podcasts, and spending time with my family.
During our first session, I like to explore clients expectations for therapy, why they are seeking services, and start to discuss some ideas for possible treatment goals.
I believe in practicing 'meet me where I am' therapy, meaning, I try to 'meet' my clients at their level to understand their struggles and work collaboratively to find solutions together. I believe healing comes from within the client I am working with, and I am here to help guide them on their path towards learning to heal themselves. And everyone could benefit from a 'little bit' of therapy.
I have worked with clients who are eager to seek support in making life changes to improve themselves, or have who presented with various mental health challenges, including depression, anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder, and other presenting problems. I believe building an effective therapeutic alliance is based on mutual trust, respect, and working collaboratively towards treatment goals identified together, with a 'clear path' to what successful completion of services might entail. I like to take a non-judgmental, neutral, and objective approach to helping my clients take steps towards healing, growing, and achieving their treatment goals.
This approach helps client's gain insight and understanding of how their own life-long patterns, some of which may begin in childhood or adolescents, can contribute to difficulties in current life.
This approach explores the role of early-childhood relationships and relationship scaffoldings and how these experiences and relationship dynamics can impact our ability to form, maintain, or sustain healthy adult relationships.
This approach relates to services ordered by the court or that could be needed for use in court-related matters or other court-adjacent matters. This could also include specialty treatment for juvenile sexual misbehaviors