Hello! I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 12 years experience. I have a strong background in Trauma, attachment wounds, and substance use disorders. I can help you learn to identify and successfully navigate the internal and external barriers that keep you from experiencing the healthy relationships you desire, with yourself and others. My focus is to empower individuals with the skills and deeper understanding necessary for long-term healing and resilience.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
On the first session we will start with introductions, we will review therapeutic techniques to meet your individual needs, start to identify your overall goal and start to unravel the barriers that have kept you stuck.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
I have worked with individuals with severe mental illness, domestic violence, suicidal ideation, PTSD, Substance use, and abuse. We all deserve to be heard, seen and to have a safe space to heal
About Tonia Childers
Tonia Childers offers therapy covered by UnitedHealthcare/Optum - Medicaid in Indiana.
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Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
I have used EFT as a foundation for all interventions, as the attachment styles we formed as a child continue into adulthood and impact how we view ourselves and others. Understanding and repairing our insecure attachment styles can lead to a more fulfilling connection with ourselves and in all our relationships. EFT can assist in identifying relationship patterns that may be causing you friction, so that you can develop skills to manage them. EFT is focused on repairing insecure attachment styles. Building a secure attachment style can lead to: increased trust others and yourself in relationships ability to confront and resolve conflict well openly express how you feel pause before you react when experiencing intense emotions
Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
I have used DBT for 10 years with clients to help others build these healthy life skills we all struggle with. DBT skills can build a strong foundation in learning how to deal distress, manage our emotional reactions, and communicate with others. DBT assists in identifying important-to-you goals and overcome obstacles that prevent you from achieving these goals. You can learn skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. With DBT we focus on 4 key areas : Mindfulness Emotional Regulation Distress Tolerance Interpersonal Skills
Trauma Informed Care
Trauma-informed mindfulness is a mindfulness practice that’s adapted to the unique needs of trauma survivors. A trauma-informed approach to mindfulness works by modifying traditional meditation practices with grounding, anchoring, and self-regulation techniques to maintain balance in the nervous system, which can help traumatized people manage their symptoms and feel safer in their bodies. Trauma-informed mindfulness can also involve: performing a physical activity with present moment awareness rather than sitting still in meditation observing objects, colors, or the space around you listening attentively to music as a mindful practice