Hello, I'm Amelia. Are you struggling to connect with your inner sense of well-being? Do you experience relationship issues or inner conflicts that seem to prevent you from attaining your personal goals in life? I strive to assist my clients in finding their inherent strengths and learning how to utilize their personal wisdom to find their unique path to healing. Through uncovering these things, I hope to help them learn to be their own best ally in the ongoing process of healing emotional scars and creating a healthy inner experience for themselves. As an intermodal expressive arts therapist and licensed mental health counselor, I have over 12 years of experience working with people from all walks of life and all different age groups. Using compassionate listening along with clinical insight and feedback, I aim to develop a working relationship with my clients based on trust, safety and willingness to do the work. By incorporating expressive arts, which can include visual art, music, dance, writing or more, we can tap into the healing and strengthening qualities of your imagination.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
An experience of being heard, new insights into thoughts and behaviors, and practical tools to use between sessions in everyday life to help attain the therapeutic goals we have identified.
What treatment methods and tools do you utilize?
I use unconditional positive regard, intermodal expressive arts therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, and sometimes internal family systems work. The techniques used are chosen and developed for each individual's unique therapeutic needs.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
One of my biggest strengths is helping you find specifically what your strengths are. Another strength is creating a working relationship in which you consider me an ally who assists you on your healing journey. I am steadfast and at times tenacious in my approach, always keeping compassionate listening and support at the forefront of our interactions. Being willing to think outside the box therapeutically and utilize the arts in a way that you feel immediate relief and can discover insights into your own healing is something that I always strive to achieve. Developing ways to incorporate expressive arts and DBT into your daily life is also something I focus on.