LCSW, 9 years of experience
Frequently rebooked
Hello there! My name is April and I have been in this field for 9 years now. My main goal is to make a space for you and your healing journey. I deliver my therapy modalities as kind and respectful as I do truthful. Honesty may be hard but toxic positivity is harmful, I approach life with a strength based perspective. “Know all the theories, master all the techniques, but as you touch a human soul be just another human soul” - Carl Jung
I like to start with getting to know you and what has brought you to your healing journey. I want to meet you where you are mentally and emotionally with your struggles and goals. I also like to begin to get your history to help identify patterns and past events that contribute to who you are today.
I use empathy and honesty to meet clients where they are at in life, emotionally, and mentally. I want to be able to help guide them as they choose to heal and change their lives with my support.
I have enjoyed working with clients on all walks of life, ages 14 and up.
I’ve been using CBT with clients for 9 years. CBT places an emphasis on helping individuals learn to be their own therapists. Through exercises in the session as well as “homework” exercises outside of sessions, patients/clients are helped to develop coping skills, whereby they can learn to change their own thinking, problematic emotions, and behavior.
I have been implementing DBT skills with clients for 9 years. DBT provides clients with mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness skills. These tools help clients manage emotions, cope with difficult situations, and improve relationships.
I have been trained in EMDR and using it with clients for 5 years now. EMDR is a structured therapy that encourages the patient to briefly focus on the trauma memory while simultaneously experiencing bilateral stimulation, which is associated with a reduction in the vividness and emotion associated with the trauma memories.
I have been using MI for 9 years to help clients with enhancing their motivation to change by means of four guiding principles, represented by the acronym RULE: Resist the righting reflex; Understand the client’s own motivations; Listen with empathy; and Empower the client.
I use Strengths-based intervention to focus on the client’s attributes that promote wellness and can work synergistically with the conventional medical model of treating disease. The strengths-based approach is predicated on the assumption that each individual has a unique set of goals and possesses internal strengths and external resources that can help them achieve these goals. It also aims to activate a client’s hopefulness through a strengthened relationship with him/herself, family, therapeutic supports, community, and culture.