Licensed to practice in Michigan and accepts 11 insurances. Specializes in Coping Skills, Crisis Intervention, Women's Issues and 7 more.
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New to Grow
Hi, my name is Cheryl Lucas, and I am a licensed clinical and macro social worker. I earned my Master of Social Work from Wayne State University in 2006. I have been practicing for over 25 years in a variety of settings with individuals experiencing a wide range of life challenges. I am certified to provide clinical supervision for new social workers in preparation for licensure, as well as coaching and mentoring. Over the course of my career, I have learned to navigate, support, and guide others through issues such as feeling overwhelmed, stress and anxiety, life changes such as health, wellness/illness, aging, grief and loss, caregiving for children, for disabled family members, for aging family members, and other events/behaviors/illnesses/disabling conditions. An area of special interest is specific to girls and women, such as pregnancy, fertility, post-partum, perimenopause, menopause, physical/mental/emotional changes, and hormones, creating a circle of women-let’s talk about it. Everyone needs a little help now and then, someone to listen objectively and without judgment, offering guidance and support while finding our way to navigate the challenges that are a part of life. If you are struggling to deal with some of life’s challenges. I encourage you to reach out, and let’s tackle this together.
Our first session will begin with me telling you a little about myself and providing an overview of what you can expect while in therapy with me. Therapy is for you; it is important that you set the goals and direction. My role is to provide tools, resources, and insight to guide you on this journey and support you in attaining your goals. I will complete a full bio-pyscho-social assessment with you, which means that I will be asking you many questions about all areas of your life so that I can gain a clear understanding of who you are, what you are facing, and what you would like to achieve in therapy. Goal setting will take place over several sessions and will be regularly evaluated to measure your progress as well as to determine if you would like to change or modify your goals.
My years of experience have given me a wealth of knowledge and experience with individual issues, challenges, and experiences. I have also face my own individual challenges within my personal life and utilized therapy to assist me with navigating my way through them. I have been successful at incorporating what I have learned in school, in professional experience, and from my personal journey to be able to provide insightful care for others on their journey. I began my career working with pregnant and parenting teen Moms and some Dads with program goals of supporting them to be and become successful parents and raising healthy children. I then moved on to work with at-risk youth and teens involved withJuvenile Justice. Many of these young people had been in foster care for years; for most, their parents were deceased. I went on to work with communities rather than individuals; during that time, I worked with the city of Detroit to develop programs for the prevention of gun violence, substance abuse, and other risk behaviors. Additionally, I worked with formerly incarcerated adults to assist them with successful reintegration into the community. I worked extensively with individuals who suffered from severe mental illness, many of whom were also dealing with long-term addiction. Since then, I have been working at the Veterans Health Administration, assisting individual Veterans to address issues such as homelessness, substance abuse, PTSD, and other mental health disorders, as well as lack of income. Overall, I have worked with people and communities facing a myriad of issues and challenges, and all of the symptoms/behaviors that either contributed to or were the byproduct of life circumstances. I am trained in supportive therapy, utilizing an integrative, client-centered, strengths-based approach. I am also trained in Motivational Interviewing and Stages of Change. I have a post-graduate certificate in Bereavement. I found through my practice that grief and loss were consistent, underlying factors for most of those that I worked with, so I pursued additional training to help support people through this.
Ideally, you will be willing to make the investment in yourself and in your healing to bring honesty to our sessions, take time in between sessions to reflect, provide feedback regarding your thoughts and experience of therapy during the next session, as well as complete homework (if assigned). Homework may include trying out the tools that we discussed during our session throughout the time in between sessions and providing feedback regarding how you felt, how it went, and was the tool helpful.
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Strength-Based
Focusing on identifying individual strengths and practicing how to utilize these individual strengths for goal attainment
Motivational Interviewing
Sometimes motivation towards change can be hard to implement, motivational interviewing provides encouragement and support towards change behaviors.