Anxiety, depression, life transitions, relationship issues, lasting effects of past trauma, and other sources of upset and stress can be challenging to handle. Left unaddressed, these issues can overwhelm our coping skills. Choosing therapy is a self-honoring step in support of relief, healing, and reaching important life goals. Therapy often includes working together to identify and change habits, thoughts, actions, and relationship patterns that are holding you back from making progress in your life. In addition, we may find that current issues trace back to old wounds that need to be processed and healed in service to greater freedom in the here and now. Through therapy, clients often reconnect to themselves, who and what they love, and regain a sense of purposeful direction. I work with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), EMDR, Mindfulness Techniques, as well as many other relevant and helpful tools to assist you in reaching your goals. I am a strong believer in tools and offer as many helpful tools and practices as I can to benefit you.

What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?

In our first session together, we'll discuss what brings you to therapy and what you hope to get out of therapy. What are the changes you are looking for? We will then create goals for therapy that we can check in on periodically. We may discuss treatment approaches and how they might be of benefit. The first session is a chance to connect and start working together as a team.

What treatment methods and tools do you utilize?

I work with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), EMDR, Mindfulness Techniques, as well as many other relevant and helpful tools to assist you in reaching your goals. All these tools are in service to building an overarching stance of self-love, self-nurturing and self-friendship, which fosters an unbreakable foundation of self-support.

Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.

I often help clients reconnect to themselves and strengthen relationship with self, sometimes after years of habitually placing the needs of others above their own. Sometimes these are caretakers, or children or partners of addicts or narcissists, or clients who buried their authenticity to survive childhood, and now as adults are ready to embark on a journey of rediscovery of authentic self and self-honoring action. I like tools, to help manage relationships with self and others, and especially when it comes to treating anxiety. I understand that anxiety is in the body, not just in our minds. I help clients recognize and address symptoms of anxiety in the body as well as in thoughts. I also work with many clients in various stages of recovery. I work with clients to build more self-awareness and self-compassion.

About Jamie Simmons