LPC, 6 years of experience
Hello there! I am privileged and honored to call myself a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), living in the state of PA. I have been working in the field of psychology for about 9 years now. I work with a wide range of individuals and have specific training in child and adolescent counseling. I am passionate about helping others develop or enhance conscious awareness tools to help improve mental health experiences. Whether you are experiencing generalized anxiety, emotional reactivity, grief, depression, or burnout, I am here to provide a safe space to listen, learn, and help integrate healing. Together we will establish goals and will objectify steps to take to help better align functioning with what feels most authentic to your current needs.
The intention of our first session together is to better illuminate the challenges and sources of suffering experienced by the client. We will have a deep dive into the dilemmas existing and will work together to determine a plan of execution that will help in sustaining increased wellness. Clients can expect a non-judgmental space in which we unpack what it feels like to experience areas of your life that might be increasing levels of curiosity, exploration, or impairment.
Having worked with children, adolescents, and young adults for years now, I've developed a bandwidth of knowledge for helping individuals more consciously gain control of their emotional functioning. Identifying the core-beliefs and memories attached to your challenges will help us authenticate a plan in which will lead to your own unique, success story. I lead with a very humanistic and person-centered approach. I have a playful nature and have been told that my sessions can be a deeply emotive experience. Emotion is naturally evoked, awakened, and/or better made sense of through the conscious exploration derived in session.
Starting off in the world of ABA therapy, I first worked with children experiencing inattention and/or hyperactivity. In this work, I found a love for serving the neurodivergent population. Next in my career, I welcomed a job as a substance-abuse counselor. This is where I found deep compassion and understanding for individuals suffering from dual diagnoses. In 2021, I began seeing my own private clients via Telehealth. I love working with conscious minds that aren't afraid to acknowledge the impact their mental health has on their way of living or sense of wellness. I have experience working with a wide variety of client issues but tend to align significantly well with issues rooted in people-pleasing, emotional reactivity, and/or spiritual intervention.
In seeking therapy under my practice, a client can expect to use consciousness-building tools to help heighten awareness and help find meaning or peace behind difficult experiences. Influenced heavily by Carl Jung, we will explore the deep emotionality and/or suppressed areas of belief that are attached to One's suffering.
We are bystanders to our thoughts. Our thoughts are separate from us, yet so often, we find ourselves "becoming one with" an intrusive voice within the mind. Illuminating unhelpful patterns of thinking is the "first stop" made on the road to enhanced wellness. With the CBT approach utilized in my practice, thought reinvention is adopted into practice to help influence healthier ways of functioning.
The nervous system influences our emotionality, functioning, and overall processing of the world around us. Positive psychology is adopted into my therapeutic approach to help illuminate the relationship between negative experiences and how our nervous system responds to stress.