New to Grow
I am a Licensed Professional Counselor, with 13 years of experience. My specialty is helping people live their best lives by overcoming unresolved trauma, self doubt, anxiety, depression, numbness, procrastination, or other blocks. I am a certified EMDR Therapist and trained in IFS. I combine these two powerful therapies to guide you through a healing process and help you achieve greater inner harmony and greater power over your life. I am eager to help you live your best life. Maybe you feel stuck. Maybe you are anxious more of the time than you want to be. Maybe you are trapped in the gray fog of depression. Maybe you're just numb. Together, we can explore what's happening inside you, and how you can be your truest Self more of the time, and be happy, productive, and at peace. The power of IFS (Internal Family Systems) and EMDR together has significantly shifted procrastination, anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, and much more for my clients. Join them! Make today the day you take the next step toward your best life! Schedule an appointment with me.
In our first session together, here's what you can expect
At our first session, I will gather some general information about you, and ask you to tell me what's important for me to know about you. I'll tell you a little about how I work. Then I'll ask you what the most pressing issue you want to address is, and we will make a plan together.
The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions
My greatest strength is the ability to help clients get to the root of their issues and heal those wounds and transform their life experiences. The best tool that I have found to accomplish this transformational change is IFS-Informed EMDR. Using IFS-Informed EMDR, my clients who have been "stuck" and I together discovered and helped heal the wounds blocking the client's progress, allowing them to move steadily toward their dreams and goals. Using IFS-Informed EMDR, my clients who struggled with anxiety and I together pinpointed and helped heal the roots of their anxiety, freeing them to live more abundant lives. Using IFS-Informed EMDR my clients who were weighed down with depression and I together listened to and helped heal the parts of the client needing healing, allowing the client to be re-connected to their joy, energy, and self confidence.
The clients I'm best positioned to serve
You and I will be a good fit if you are ready to really dig in and work toward deep emotional healing. If you love growing and learning and changing, let's work together! If you are motivated to bring all of you to the table and open yourself to change, let's get started! If you are hardly able to think or move, because you are so overwhelmed or depressed, you, also, are my ideal client. Things are never so overwhelming or dark when we have someone who listens to us and cares about us. If you are "of two minds" and part of you wants to do one thing and another actively avoids that thing (like, maybe, important tasks), let's work together to get those two parts of you working in harmony together. While I love the kind of session where you, the client, are sharing your thoughts and feelings and I am reflecting to you what I hear and sometimes sharing an idea for you to consider, what I do best is take an active role in guiding you through the healing process, using specific steps offered through IFS-Informed EMDR. If you are struggling with feelings you don't know what to do with, or you are feeling as though something is keeping you from charging ahead toward your dreams, I would love to work with you to find and heal the root issue. If you are anxious or depressed, or feeling stuck, or feel paralyzed by procrastination, reach out to me and let's remove those roadblocks together, so you can reconnect with your energy and joy and purpose.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
IFS (Internal Family Systems) is a type of psychotherapy in which we visualize our internal experience as different parts of us, and communicate with these parts in compassionate ways that lead to healing and harmony, and to our best Self being in the driver's seat more of the time. I am a Level 1 trained IFS therapist, and have been using IFS for 10 years to help me and my clients understand their relationships with themselves and others. Both IFS and EMDR are highly effective therapies. Combined, as I use them, they are even more powerful.
EMDR
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a type of psychotherapy in which a natural healing process in our brain is activated using something called "bilateral stimulation," or BLS. BLS can be experienced through back and forth eye movements, or tapping on alternate sides of our body. I am a certified EMDR Therapist, and have been using EMDR for 7 years to help my clients change ineffective ways of thinking and reduce the intensity of emotional pain. Both IFS and EMDR are highly effective therapies. Combined, as I use them, they are even more powerful.