I am gentle, experienced and nothing shocks me. I want to help, and I want to know you. I listen well and like to look for solutions. I have worked with family violence, LGBTQ issues, grief, trauma of all kinds, and have supervised numerous professionals as they grew in the mental health field.
I usually take a person-centered approach at the beginning so my client can define our work together. If there is trauma to work on, we will likely work from a trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) direction. If the issues are grief focused, I let the client guide the direction to take, identifying what parts of their lives are affected.
Clients will likely have homework each time, but they will walk away with a sense that they have been heard and understood. Clients should feel hopeful that problems can be solved.
