I am a licensed mental health counselor and owner of True North Therapies in Stuart, FL. I specialize in offering compassionate and professional mental health counseling services specifically tailored for children and teens, providing the help and support they need to navigate life's challenges. I also has extensive experience helping adults and families with a variety of emotional and mental health concerns. I endeavor to meet each client where he or she is on their path, listening intently to their stories and striving to empower them to face life’s challenges in healthy ways.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
My intake sessions generally run a bit longer than a typical counseling session (I usually budget about 1.5 hours). In these sessions, I try to gather as much information about you and what brings you to therapy, while acclimating you to the counseling process, addressing any questions or concerns you have and helping you to feel at ease. I do request that should you decide to reach out to me for services, that you book an initial 15 minute "consult" first so that we have the opportunity to speak for a bit to determine if we are a good therapeutic fit.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
I am genuine, warm and easy-going and bring a lot of real-world experience to therapy. I truly love helping others and I think you'll find that it shows.
Describe the client(s) you are best positioned to serve.
I enjoy the mix of clientele my practice affords me to have. I love helping children to overcome obstacles that prevent them from thriving. I derive great purpose and pleasure when I hear that my young clients are flourishing long after their last session with me. I also greatly enjoy working with teens and young adults to navigate these often stressful years. I'm a keen reader and do well to keep up with the ever-changing social dynamics and issues affecting the lives of young people today. I believe that knowledge is power and I seek to pass this on when helping my clients make informed and healthy choices about their lives. More recently, I've had the pleasure of treating older adults with a variety of mental health concerns including PTSD, anxiety disorders and depression. I don't believe that it is ever too late to make positive changes in one's life.
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759 Southwest Federal Highway, Stuart, FL 34994, Suite 201CAppointments
Virtual & in-personMy treatment methods
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
The vast majority of my clients benefit from interventions rooted in cognitive behavioral therapy. CBT is based upon a framework that recognizes the interrelationship of thoughts, feelings and behaviors. The therapy model seeks to increase clients' self-awareness of each and to challenge unhelpful and distorted thoughts and self-talk that may contribute to unhealthy behaviors and feelings of distress. I have had great success treating clients with this goal-oriented approach.
Group Therapy
My practice, True North Therapies, offers Social Learning Groups for children and teens with high functioning autism and other related disabilities. Having worked with hundreds of children, teens and adults on the autism spectrum over the past 15 years, I am keenly aware that “one size fits all” skills groups simply don’t work well. I give great care and consideration to each group’s composition to ensure, as much as possible, that each child stands to benefit from the same level and scope of instruction. Each group’s design is thematic, focusing on only a few related core concepts at a time and strategically attending to others as they arise. A sound understanding of these concepts serve as the foundation for higher levels of social cognitive skill development. It is not un-common for participants to enroll in two or more “semesters," which are typically offered coincident with the Fall and Spring school schedules.