New to Grow
As a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor and a Licensed Clinical Addictions Specialist Associate I believe the biggest component to achieving happiness is making your mental health a priority. Taking the first step to improve your overall mental health can be a huge decision, but a very brave one! I graduated with my masters degree in clinical mental health counseling from Capella University in 2018. I have over 8 years of experience working in many different counseling settings, including inpatient/outpatient, residential, community support, and private practice. I enjoy working with those 13 and up who are struggling with anxiety, depression, mood disorders, trauma, personality disorders, serious, chronic mental illnesses, and addictive behaviors.
In our first session together, here's what you can expect
In the first session, I always allow space for you to come in with whatever issues or problems you’re facing and we come up with a plan together to help alleviate some of those issues and create positive changes. While utilizing certain therapeutic modalities, I will be supportive and encouraging to help you develop a healthy mindset, along with helpful life changes. Together, we will come up with treatment goals, and in the following sessions we will work together to ensure those goals become reality.
The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions
I understand the challenges that life can bring, both mentally and emotionally. With a deep passion for helping others, I help guide individuals through their most difficult moments and transitions. I sometimes draw from my own experiences and extensive training. I provide compassionate therapy to teens and adults at various stages of life, empowering them to navigate their unique journeys. My commitment to support and healing allow me to share vulnerable lessons with those in need.
The clients I'm best positioned to serve
We are all unique, and we all need individual creative approaches to therapy. I believe in treatment that accommodate the totality of each person‘s unique individual, physical, psychological and emotional needs. Some of these approaches include cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, emotion focused therapy, internal family systems, and brainspotting.
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
Rather than just talking about feelings, EFT focuses on experiencing and transforming them in the moment. This evidence-based approach views emotions as the primary guide for human experience and the key to therapeutic change.
Brainspotting
Brainspotting (BSP) is a brain-body psychotherapy that uses a client's visual field to access and process trauma, emotional distress, and physical pain stored in the deeper, non-verbal parts of the brain. Brainspotting is based on the idea that specific eye positions—called "brainspots"—correlate with neurophysiological "capsules" of unprocessed trauma in the subcortical brain. Brainspotting aims to bypass it to reach the limbic system and midbrain, where memories and emotional regulation are housed.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) works by identifying and changing the interconnected patterns between your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It is based on the Cognitive Model, which suggests that it is not external events themselves that cause distress, but rather the way we interpret those events.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is an evidence-based psychotherapy that views the mind as a "family" of distinct sub-personalities, or "parts," led by a core "Self". Developed by Dr. Richard Schwartz, it assumes that there are "no bad parts"—only parts forced into extreme roles by past trauma or stress.