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 as an assistant pastor, youth 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. 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!!!
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
The first session for both individual and couples’ 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.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest 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.
Describe the client(s) you are best positioned to serve.
I offer individual therapy for adults (25+) and couples therapy via telehealth only. No in-person sessions are offered.
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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.
Couples Counseling
General couples and family therapies are used including Gottman Couples therapy. Examples of concerns addressed in couples therapy include individual and generational trauma, power differentials/struggles, intimacy concerns, validation skills, emotional intelligence, attachment styles, neurodiversity issues, trauma impacts, infidelity and emotional affairs, personality disorders, death of parent or relative, death of a child, chronic illness, job loss, special needs child(ren), financial crises/bankruptcy, mid-life crises, addiction issues, couple relationship discernment, couple reconciliation, divorce and uncoupling issues, blended family/prior family loyalties and rituals, and managing difficult exes.
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).