As a social worker dedicated to helping others maximize their abilities, I am eager to work with others who are looking to manage life enough to feel successful for themselves through SMALL CHANGES. Recognizing that life is busy, hectic, demanding, and complicated, I am here to help you streamline aspects of your life by managing your THOUGHTS, FEELINGS, and BEHAVIORS. I prefer BRIEF INTERVENTIONS (short-term episodes of care) and explore SOLUTION-FOCUSED STRATEGIES.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
After brief introductions, the first session is an opportunity for me to better understand the specific challenges you are facing, your motivation for seeking counseling support, and what areas of your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors aren't fitting with your goals. The first session hosts a lot of questions and generates opportunities for us to identify together expectations, concerns, hopes for treatment. Through a short-term episode of care approach, we will identify brief goals and opportunities for pivoting.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
As a provider, I pride myself on being relatable and relaxed in my approach to helping others. I allow my clinical training and theoretical education to provide a solid foundation for my approaches, but recognize that most people are seeking other people to be kind, supportive, helpful, and fun (humor) in their counseling approaches. Counseling can be refreshing and enjoyable when in the right environment.
Describe the client(s) you are best positioned to serve.
As an LCSW with experience in a variety of work settings, I prefer to focus on short-term therapy needs (brief intervention, solution-focused) where you feel supported and empowered to make changes. I offer a listening ear and a supportive place to express yourself while generating "next steps" to create positive change.
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Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a foundational approach recognizing one's beliefs, thoughts, and feelings and how they influence one's behaviors. Through this short-term approach to treatment, identifying these connections help prioritize problem-solving strategies.
Motivational Interviewing
Motivational interviewing helps one identify the motivation to make a positive behavior change. As a client-centered approach, motivational interviewing is unique in the way it empowers people to take responsibility for their own behaviors and actions by tapping into intrinsic and extrinsic motivational factors through collaboration.
Acceptance and commitment (ACT)
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is an action-oriented approach to help one learn to stop avoiding, denying, and struggling with inner emotions and, instead, accept that these deeper feelings are appropriate responses to certain situations that should not prevent them from moving forward in their lives. With this understanding, one can begin to accept their hardships and commit to making necessary changes in their behavior, regardless of what is going on in their lives and how they feel about it.
Psychoeducation
Psychoeducation is a therapy technique that teaches about one's mental health condition and how to cope and manage it based on an informed status. Understanding the situation is useful in identifying the best suited approaches to manage symptoms, behaviors, and contributing factors.
Solution Focused Brief Treatment
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) is a short-term goal-focused evidence-based therapeutic approach that helps one make changes by constructing solutions, rather than focusing on problems. Brief intervention strategies promote focused and contain treatment planning for short-term episodes of care.