Maureen Bakis

As an older clinician, certified yoga instructor, and former educator, I have decades of experience fostering mind and body wellness through unconditionally supportive learning-based relationship. I will collaborate with you to build a healthy therapeutic alliance, focus on identifying your strengths and values, and help you find and use the most appropriate resources to meet your very specific needs and address your challenges. I respect that you are a unique person, not merely some "patient" to prescribe to, and I avoid over-analyzing and using overly-clinical jargon. My philosophy is that we are two people working together to understand your needs and ways to improve your life.

A person-centered therapy alliance is the foundation upon which I work to provide you with a swath of available tools and resources to help regulate your stress system, improve your overall mind and body wellness, maintain healthy relationship functioning, and respond with intention and purpose to your life challenges, whatever they may be. This means a holistic and integrative approach ---using whatever methods and resources each unique person may require and even that can change depending on the issues and time and context!

I create a place for you to feel safe and attended to so you can be honest, say what you need to say, and feel what you need to feel, so you can heal and thrive. You will leave our sessions feeling seen, heard, and supported-- like you are on a team with me to help you heal, grow, and thrive. You can also expect to leave sessions with helpful information, tools, and resources to use in your everyday life outside of our sessions to continue learning, coping, enacting change, and growing in wellness.