Kevin Hardwick
As a therapist, I am a Licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapists and as an Independent Clinical Social Worker. As a minister, I am ordained and have served in the roles of youth pastor, assistant pastor, and chaplain in a children's home for abused and neglected children as well as in correctional settings.
I strive to ensure that all sessions combine Christian counseling and other evidence-based therapy models to enhance your emotional, behavioral, and spiritual growth.
I strive to ensure that all sessions combine Christian counseling and other evidence-based therapy models to enhance your emotional, behavioral, and spiritual growth. Our work together will be mindfulness driven and trauma-informed meaning we would agree to take an ongoing inventory of wellbeing and to identify/address individual and relational needs related to anxiety, depression, substance abuse, grief and loss, and trauma. Our goal would be to enhance existing strength factors (assets) and to reduce risk factors (triggers). Therapy will work if you work it!!!
First session
The first session for individual sessions is a 1.50-hour initial consultation. The purpose of this session is to evaluate whether we are a good fit for therapy. At the end of the initial consultation session, I will ask you to self-rate how hopeful and helpful do you feel continuing to work together would be based on our initial session. If we both feel good enough about the rapport established during the initial session, we would then be in a place to schedule follow-up sessions.
Strengths
My greatest strengths are calmness, compassion, non-judgmental, and my own life experiences with success, struggle, and trauma. My clients tell me that I am patient and adaptable with a strong sense of fairness and accountability. Although your story has some unique features, what makes us relatable is that there are some common threads between your life experiences and those of others I've worked with over the past 25 years as well as my own life experiences. I am stronger and wiser because I've learned from people from every demographic (teens, women, men, and seniors), from those who are extremely successful at the C-suite and entrepreneurs to the person who is housing displaced and unemployed. Likewise, I have been blessed to work in every setting you can imagine, e.g., hospital-based, substance use treatment centers, detox, residential/inpatient, partial hospitalization programs, intensive outpatient services, outpatient clinics, aftercare programs, group-home program, children’s out-home-placement facility, community corrections/state Department of Corrections, re-entry services, emergency shelters, school-based therapy, and in-home therapy. I have also done my own therapy. So, I know what it’s like to be in therapy.
Ideal clients
I enjoy working with adults that are motivated to change. I also find it rewarding when I can provide support through life defining moments. There is nothing more meaningful in life than to have the experience of walking beside someone who is navigating the acceptance process and is working through something painful. It fulfils my sense of purpose when I have joined someone’s journey and growth process and they emerge on the other side of their struggle wiser, clearer, and more balanced. It’s truly the bomb.com when therapy participants have gained new perspectives; new relationship skills;, updated emotional tools; and renewed commitment to spiritual health. In such instances, there are moments throughout the therapy encounter that signal that our meeting was divinely ordained and mutually purposeful.
Treatment methods
Christian Counseling
The ministry of embodying Christ’s dynamic and compassionate presence combined with logotherapy (V. Frankl) are fundamental modalities that help individuals find meaning in their lives, especially during difficult times. Also, Scripture reading, meditation, and prayer as well as evidence-based counseling techniques are integrated into all sessions.
Culturally Sensitive Therapy
Clients utilize trauma-informed support to explore cultural and religious differences. This therapy is founded on empowering clients to navigate life transitions by validating social determinants of health that which often lead to cultural, religious, economic, housing, employment, and other disparities in measurable health outcomes.
Grief Therapy
For some clients, issues of death and dying may be front and center. However, for other clients, invisible losses like separation, lost innocence, lost safety, etc. are the focus of therapy. For still other clients, the focus of therapy is working through disenfranchised losses that often carry an element of social stigma and trauma such as end of life issues, church split, spiritual abuse, parental abandonment, adoption, hospice, career malaise/stagnation, chronic illness/pain, divorce/remarriage, blended family dynamics, miscarriages/stillbirths, infertility, immigration, incarceration, unemployment, homelessness, domestic violence, mixed race issues, ethnic and gender marginalization, etc.
Trauma Informed Care
Clients process the impact of childhood trauma before age 18 on current functioning. Attention is given to both types of traumas -- namely, trauma with a big "T" (life-threatening, physical injury, destruction of safety) and little "t" (non-life threatening but significantly impactful).
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Virtual sessions
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- MinnesotaLicense 24988