Hello, I am Joann Silva, Life has a way of constantly throwing the unexpected at us. Do you believe you are not up to the challenges that are piling up? Do you think you are just recycling old life issues? Strategies that used to help you cope do not work or you have outgrown them? No issue is too small or too big. With over 45 years in this field, I believe I have encountered almost every kind of human trauma and can help you bring yourself back to peacefulness and joy in living. I have years of being a great listener - funny and heartfelt and skilled at helping my clients find their confidence and joy, and reset their resilience to tackle life's long list of hits. It is paramount that you have the time to build a safe and open relationship with me, to move at the pace you are comfortable with, and always be supported in seeking the success and courage you have used to get this far. As you educate me about you and your life, and the things that work and do not we will put together the most ancient and newest wisdom and skills to cope with your physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual struggles. We will work to lessen or eliminate those symptoms of distress called anxiety, depression and the myriad of other symptoms that are confusing and overwhelming. We will work to help you find your center, your peace, and passion and use all of the past struggles to empower you again to enjoy all aspects of your daily life. My goal for each session is to lessen your stress or upset, to offer laughter to break up pain, to bring stories and wisdom to help with your concerns and new ways to master the internal and external challenges you are facing. I look forward to walking a bit with you down that road to a new joy.

What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?

During each session, we will review the issues and concerns from the previous session. You will educate me on your priorities on those issues. Therapy will focus on developing the strategies that work for you and offer new ways to gain mastery of the thoughts, emotions, physical issues, and spiritual/value issues that concern you. We will select what is right for you from the best practices of current therapeutic techniques. And always, we will look at all of your strengths and successes as you change what you want to change in yourself and your world, and strategies to move away from those situations that you do not want to deal with any longer. All new learning takes practice, so at a pace that is comfortable home practice will be offered.

What treatment methods and tools do you utilize?

Therapy must be tailored to you, your ways of thinking, feelings, behavior, and values. Over the years, I have worked with most of the major therapeutic models from CTB, EMDR/ Tapping In, Mindfulness, Progressive Therapy, DBT, Gestalt, Bowen Family Therapy, Rogerian, Grief, Parent Project, Neurolinguistic Programming, Energetic Psychology, and Desensitization for Trauma. I have learned to tailor the specifics to your current coping skills, to enhance or complete the healing, relearning process. Therefore, we will tailor our approach to you and your history and cultural, familial and spiritual preferences. And regularly we will evaluate those methods, to be certain we achieve your goals for life changes using therapy.

Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.

Having over 45 years of experience in almost all mental health settings, I dedicate myself to the highest and best health for my clients. If Depression, Anxiety, Grief, Trauma, Existential, random neurological symptoms or neuro divergence is part of your daily reality, I work to help you move to your level of comfort with the uniqueness of your humanness. And as you want, to lessen any distress or develop alternative methods to meet educational, vocational and societal expectations, with joy and confidence. If issues are creating distress and doubt, my work helps sort the wheat from the chaff. I use your best learning methods to strengthen your sense of self, passions, hopes and life paths. My niche is supporting you to go inside yourself and look outside yourself to gain an understanding...

About Joann Silva