Channing Bushman

I have a wide breadth of professional and personal experience with different age groups and populations, allowing me to easily connect with clients from the first interaction with warmth and compassion. I am highly adaptable in session, with a mix of humor, as well as softness with vulnerable and intimate spaces, in order to find connection and attunement with each client.

I specialize primarily in the treatment of eating disorders, as someone in recovery myself. My overarching goal for my clients is to encourage empowerment and self-compassion through autonomy and accountability. This is especially important in regard to your body and what you allow into your physical and emotional space. My priority for my clients is to nurture you. I want you to find ways to sustainability nourish yourself and those around you.

I value client-centered and strengths-based counseling, where you are very much running our sessions based on what you would like to discuss. I identify most with Social Constructionism and enjoy the collaborative language systems approach, where you are the expert on your own life and can tell me about your life experience to paint a picture for me. I also use Motivational Interviewing and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to support our work towards the goals we have set.

Our initial interactions will include goal setting and discussion of the barriers that are keeping you from the life you want. I love working with clients in transitional stages of life and who are looking to figure out who they want to be. Clients who are self-motivated to change and who will put effort and intentionality into therapy make my heart sing!