Hi! My name is Chelsea. I am a licensed therapist living in Tennessee and serving clients in Pennsylvania. I have been privileged to work with people from many walks of life in many different levels of mental health care, and currently I provide short-term and long-term virtual individual therapy for adults. I help people whose emotional pain has spilled out onto their relationships, work, family, physical health, or creative endeavors. Perhaps this pain comes from facing a significant life transition, grieving a loved one, or difficulty breaking free from traumatic events or periods of life. Often this pain comes in the form of anxiety, excessive worry, hypervigilance, depressed or unstable mood, irritability, numbness, hopelessness, fatigue, dissociation, or suicidal thoughts. I believe that mental health symptom relief and learning practical coping skills are important in treatment, and I also believe that healing does not have to stop there. Therapy can be a place to uncover your true self, to become unburdened from the weight of the past, to help you live a meaningful life where you have agency, or to build your psychological immunity for the future. Let’s see if we’re a good fit!
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
My goal in our first session is to orient towards your feelings, thoughts, fears, hopes, and goals that bring you to therapy. I ask questions that will help me understand your situation and its contributing factors. I listen and attend to you as carefully as I can, and finally, I give you my thoughts on ways to work towards your desired outcomes.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
My strength as a therapist is shown to the degree I express a nonjudgmental, patient, and authentic stance towards clients. I value providing a warm relational experience and creating the space for you as you are within that warmth. I am always concerned with helping you direct your own life by helping you see and own the power you have. I take our work seriously, so I do my best to continually evolve my professional knowledge and skills, to walk the path of continual growth in my own life, and to depend on my own people in order to be a good enough therapist.
Describe the client(s) you are best positioned to serve.
I enjoy helping people who desire to work through complex or developmental trauma that have resulted in chronic social or general anxiety, persistent relational challenges and blocks, dissociative patterns, chronic depression or fatigue, and burnout. I see people who carry race-based stress and trauma, second-generation immigrant issues, as well as spiritual or religious trauma. I have experience treating mental health trainees and professionals.
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Psychodynamic
Working psychodynamically means that we pay particular attention to emotional expression, avoided thoughts and feelings, recurring themes and patterns, the way your past touches upon your present life, your wishes, desires, and imagination, and past and present attachment and relational patterns.
Humanistic
Having a humanistic and person-centered orientation means that I aim to frame our work together around your will, your choices, your agency, your values, and your strength. While I am an active participant in the therapeutic process with you and can provide suggestions as needed, I strive to allow you to have your own process of psychological and emotional direction and growth.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Internal Family Systems offers you a way to work with disavowed or difficult parts of yourself. Rather than fighting with parts of yourself that are stubborn, problematic, or just won’t go away, we can learn how to be present and nonjudgmental with them then work towards change from there.
Somatic
Interventions from Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and Somatic Experiencing Psychotherapy help to support your connection with your feelings and to facilitate change through the resources of the body.
EMDR
I am currently in EMDRIA-approved EMDR Basic Training and will complete this in February 2025. I am providing this under supervision. EMDR helps to reduce or resolve distress related to past disturbing experiences as well as recent or ongoing distressing experiences. This modality can be helpful to people who have engaged in talk therapy but feel they would like something more.