I started early in my career in addiction counseling (1995/2005-LCDC, MAC) and moved toward complex trauma (2013-LCSW, CCTP, TBRI). Currently, I continue to deepen my understanding of creating and redesigning the neuron pathways from our senses (inputs) to the brain and return neuronal information out to the body and mind (outputs). This is termed neuroplasticity and early, in life, mirror neurons play a pivotal role in this process.
I have a strong belief that I am a reflection of the client and the client controls the direction of treatment. Also, I believe in a strengths-based approach, working from your identified strengths, which is often the most effective approach in outpatient therapy. The primary therapy frameworks, under the attachment & trauma-informed lens, include humanistic, cognitive, behavioral, psychoanalytic, and systemic treatment models.
My goal in therapy is to ensure you are moving forward and working toward feeling comfortable in your own skin which includes minimizing or eliminating distress and stressors which affect relationships and daily life. This process includes Motivational Interviewing-MI. I believe people are more than one dimensional and balance in all areas in life are needed for homeostasis which means body, mind and spiritual work; therefore, likely we will have all of these areas addressed as goals.
