I am Kara Stewart, a licensed professional counselor that has served in the mental health field for over 18 years. Through my years of practice, I have learned that approaching therapy from a client-centered, individualized, and creative approach provides the best outcome in therapy. It is my personal goal to help others find their strengths, path to wellness, and skills to utilize their challenges, life story, victories, and perceived failures to enhance their life and relationships with others.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
During the initial session, we will get to know each other, discuss the nature of therapy, expectations of the process, and reasons for seeking services. We will also review the limitations of confidentiality and the process itself.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
I believe my greatest strengths as a provider is my ability to meet people where they are by utilizing interventions that reflect their interests, personalities, and preferences. Incorporating holistic health approaches to managing mental health symptoms and overall wellness is also skill that I have committed a lot of time to mastering.
About Kara Stewart
Kara Stewart offers therapy covered by Kaiser Permanente - Medicaid and UnitedHealthcare/Optum - Medicaid in Virginia.
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Adlerian
This approach is used to establish rapport, set goals, encourage the client to utilize personal insight, self-awareness, and lifestyle assessment to meet goals and identify patterns that have not benefited the client or may explain behavioral patterns in relationships with others.
Mindfulness-Based Therapy
This approach is implemented in therapy to provide techniques to return to the present moment, reduce anxiety, promote emotional regulation, and address other mood changes. This approach is also utilized to challenge negative thoughts and increase positive thinking.
Christian Counseling
Working with clients that see the value of incorporating their faith into their treatment is a strong focus of Ternions Solutions, LLC. Integrating spiritual disciplines with mindfulness, CBT techniques, and other evidence-based interventions has been instrumental and effective with clients meeting their identified goals in therapy. This approach is utilized with individual, couples, and family therapy within the practice.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
CBT has been a foundational theoretical approach utilized with TS, LLC since its conception. This approach allows clients to recognize how thoughts can influence feelings and lead to behaviors. Exploring core beliefs empowers clients to challenge and reframe their belief systems if they find them to be faulty or counterproductive.