I am a fully licensed clinical social worker. I live helping individuals identify their Wirth and strengths they possess to achieve their goals. I have successfully helped women, especially, to work through relationship and parenting issues. I enjoy assisting individuals in settling healthy boundaries and in developing skills needed to effectively and productively be present in their lives. I believe it is impotant to listen to what clients need and want. My clients report feeling comfortable and heard in mu sesions. Some were in counseling prior to working with me and state I have been very beneifical.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
The first session entails learning about me and my treatment methods. I will complete an clinical assessment to learn their needs and goals for treatment. We will begin to build a rapport and I will create a safe comforting environment. During the first session, clients can expect to feel welcome and heard. For some it may be difficult because clients are not used to sharing their stories, but most report a beneifical experience and look forward to returning.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
My ability to listen and to create a safe environment for individuals to share there stories. Individuals have told me that I have a calming voice and have the ability to encourage individuals to open up and be transparent.
Describe the client(s) you are best positioned to serve.
My clients currently consists of females; however over the last few months man of my clients are married and unmarried couples. I use a "Saving Your Marriage Before it Get's Started" and other modelities to teach clients how to communicate and how to resolve conflict. I encourage families and couples to be honest with one another and to listen, not to respond, but to use empathetic, understanding listening skills.
About Wanda McWilliams
Address
3719 Latrobe Drive, Charlotte, NC, USA. Building 81pAppointments
Virtual & in-person
My treatment methods
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Wanda has been providing therapy to individuals, couples and families by helping them identify how their thoughts and beliefs lead to certain feelings and behaviors. She has been using this method as well as trauma focused therapy throughout her years of service. She also uses Christian based therapy when requested. CBT is a modelity that is used to teach individuals how their thoughts and believes contribute to further thoughts and feelings which also contributes to behavior. Wanda teaches skills and techniques needed to assist with acheiving mental, emotional and spiritual goals. CBT has been proven to teach clients how to reframe thoughts that are probematic for them. She she listens to clients to learn their perspective of their problems to devise the techniques needed to reach their goals.
Couples Counseling
Wanda been providing couples and marriage counseling for over 20 years. She provided couples, premarital and marital counseling by treating issues of intimacy (financial, sexual, recreationl, physical, spiritul, enegetic/academic, mental.) Wanda also teaches couples how to communicate and the barriers to be able to do so. Trust, honest and feelings about conflictual interactons are signifcant issues that need to be addressed. The conflict is not the issue as much as how we engage in conficting. Wand teaches how tone, body languange and facial expressions impact the ability to properly solve issues. Wanda teaches skills needed to resolve in a healthy productive manner. When skills are used effectively, fewer incidents will occur. Wanda also uses litarature to further enhance teaching of these skills. Wanda also uses "Saving Your Marriage Before it Get's Started" assesment curriculum to assess views on marriagem, self and partner designed couples who are thinking about marriage or married. It is an extensive curriculum that helps to identify similarities and differences that may need to be addressed.
Christian Counseling
Wanda is a fully listened social worker in the state of North Carolina. Wanda uses CBT, Motivational Interviewing and other modalities to assist clients in reaching their therapeutic goals. Wanda skilled in ensuring that individuals, families, and couples feel head and listened to in a comfortable and empathetic environment. Her clients report feeling heard and appreciated in the sessions as she uses faith based tools to assist clients with strengthening their relationship with God and learning their purpose in life. Biblical tools are used as needed nd requested to teach God's view of view and to help reframe negative thought patterns that are false or exagerated. These beliefs tend to interfere with your being able to achieve goals and to move forward in your life. Wanda will teach how to recongizes untruths that are significant barriers to growth.
Strength-Based
We all have strengths as individuals and in our family groups. I work to help individuals discover these strengths and help to enhance those already identified. Wanda teaches you to learn to recognize personal strengths nd strengths that reside in your family and marriage. Many times the problems and issues of life cloud our perspective and limits our abilitu to identify and utilize strengths. She will teach you to recongnize these strengths and will teach you how to life an empowered life that you were designe to live. She teach you how to hone these strengths and to readily rely on them prior to and when feeling weakened and uninspired.
Person-centered (Rogerian)
Wanda believe in focusing on the identified goals of the person and what they hope to accomplish in treatment. Most individuals know what they need but may nmeed help to articulate these needs. Wanda listens attentively to clients to learn their desires for treatment and listens as they identify their goals and desires. She will help to develop goals as needed based on information provided. She does not tell clients what they need or take away from the personal focus of the client. Sessions are conducted focusing on skills desired and currently used. The virtual and in-person environment is nonjudgmental and empathetic.
