I approach to counseling and therapy is that we're all striving to connect with our whole or "essence" self that resides within us. I see myself as a facilitator of that change. I am a holistic and trauma-informed therapist with some twenty-five years' experience.
My approach to clients is of an attitude that we are all whole and complete just as we are on an "essence" level and our journey is to reconnect with that wholeness that we come from. I work with anxiety, depression, relationship and trauma issues from a holistic, body/mind perspective.
As well as having a formal education in counseling psychology and state-licensed as a professional clinical counselor employed in urban social work positions such a juvenile detention centers and outpatient mental health, I am trained and certified in clinical hypnotherapy, somatic EMDR, mindfulness and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, Gestalt therapy and Internal Family Systems and Parts Therapy.
The first session is an intake where we meet and I gather information from you on your presenting issues, background, formulation of goals to focus as well as some beginning awareness of internal negative belief systems and some experiential work in mindfulness practices.
