Welcome to Kairos Counseling and Consulting LLC. Im Carmen. I am Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP) in the state of Pennsylvania. In 2014, I received my masters degree in counseling psychology from Chatham University. Impacting individuals and families; helping them to experience resilience, growth and transformation through difficult experiences and life transitions has continued to be my primary motivation. My clients are usually self-aware, observant, strong, intelligent, and sensitive; desiring the skills or motivation to move forward. But also may feel overwhelmed, ashamed, anxious, depressed, self conscious and/or defeated. My role in your journey will be to assist you in managing physical, emotional and experiential symptoms that have kept you stuck, process distressing experiences and envision a future grounded in hope. Taking the first step to seeking a more fulfilling and happier life takes courage. I look forward to supporting you in that journey.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
I believe in treating everyone with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. And your treatment plan should be tailored to meet your unique and specific concerns. In our first session we will get to know each other to determine goodness of fit understanding of how I can best serve you. We will discuss your leading concerns along with the impact it has on you. Together we will develop goals to guide us over the next few sessions.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
Ive (a) developed through experience the skill sets and interventions to assist you in managing the emotions and reminders related to your difficult experience as well as (b) created a functional plan to help you move through the stages of stress, loss and/or trauma into resilience and healing.
About Carmen Porter MS, LPC, CCTP
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Eclectic
After completing a thorough assessment we will design a treatment plan that utilizes a variety of interventions from the following modalities of therapy: Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Positive Psychology, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Solution Focused Brief Treatment, Christian Counseling, Interpersonal and/or Grief Counseling.
Trauma Informed Care
Woking within the trauma field for twenty years wearing a variety of hats including social worker, clinician and therapist, I possess years of clinical training in trauma-based models such as Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT), Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), TF-CBT, Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), Integrative Treatment for Complex Trauma (ITCT), and Child-Centered Play Therapy (CCPT).
Psychodynamic
Cognitive and emotional processing are the hallmarks of this model. I want to support you in developing awareness of needs, strengths, triggers and resiliency factors. This will include us taking a dive into your subconscious to better understand stress responses, motivations and meaning as it relates to you in relationship with others, striving for success, managing emotions or thinking and so much more.