Hello! I’m pleased you are checking out some profiles and I honor your courage to reach out. My professional life covers a broad range of counseling experiences including 2 ½ years in a chemical dependency setting working with parolees and probationers, co-facilitating a sex-offenders group, 11 years serving students in a counseling center at a major university providing mental health and career counseling, three years serving members of the military service and their family members, all the while serving a variety of clients in a private practice setting. I have been offering tele-mental health (only) counseling for the past 5 years. You will find me to be personable, attentive, and compassionate. I also believe that light-heartedness is critical not only to healing, but in everyday life. My responsibility is to provide you with an emotionally safe and non-judgmental setting, and the encouragement and guidance to utilize the solutions I provide for you to heal. You will find me to be personable, attentive, and compassionate. I also believe that light-heartedness is critical not only to healing, but in everyday life. My responsibility is to provide you with an emotionally safe and non-judgmental setting, and the encouragement and guidance to utilize the solutions I provide for you to heal.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
During our first session, I will focus on establishing rapport with you and answering questions you have of me or perhaps of my therapeutic approach. Because the intake form will have already been completed, I will likely have a few questions regarding your responses. If you are experiencing a lot of stress, I will provide you with a strategy or two to address that. I anticipate that both of us will be a bit nervous. I believe this is healthy as we encounter a new experience. Again, my job is to create an emotionally safe and non-judgmental environment.
What treatment methods and tools do you utilize?
The psychotherapeutic modalities I rely most heavily on now are: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems and Coherence Therapy. Over the years, I have studied and/or trained in the following: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Transactional Analysis, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Family Systems, Hypnotherapy, Energy Psychology, Internal Family Systems, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and Coherence Therapy.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
Because of my relinquishment and reunion experiences, I have a special interest in working with adult adoptees and birth/first moms. This requires that I am experienced in treating anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma. Adoptees and birth/first moms each have unique challenges with reunion and relinquishment. My involvements in the adoption complex and foster care community have provided me with a broad perspective on these challenges.