Phyllis Krauser

It takes courage and will to seek a clinician who meets your needs. Our consultation followed by the first session is the first time we have connected. I will do my best making you feel as comfortable as possible as I have done with other clients.

I am an experienced clinician with two Masters in clinical social work working at hospitals and mental health clinics. Supervisor of social work students.

My specialization is how early childhood trauma manifests impairing functioning as adults. You may feel stuck harbored by anxiety, depressed mood, and lack of motivation. Clients come to my virtual site with relationship, work and personal challenges.

My clients are actors, Master Students, PH.D. students, professors, employees having difficulty at work, unemployed workers, grade school and high school teachers, grandmothers as mothers again, female and male veterans.

It's important that we work together as a team. You are seeking therapy at this time due to life challenges that interfere with a life worth living. I am committed to my work as a psychotherapist. Psychotherapy is my passion.

Compassion therapy is how I begin before engaging in somatic therapy. Compassion interventions introduced for you to start feeling compassion for yourself. Trauma is a wound that takes time to heal. Survivors experience critical thinking, ruminations, blaming, a trance of unworthiness. The feelings lodge in the body. It takes time to connect the mind and body identifying the feelings that the body is revealing. That's okay! Mindful meditation, imagery and movement are helpful as well.

In that this is our first face to face contact I see my role as making you feel at ease. I will welcome you by sharing my experience and approach to therapy. After which tell me what brings you to therapy at this time. If you have been in therapy before provide a description of your experience. It's important that I know what you are hoping to get out of therapy.

I will then ask you about family, marital status, employment history, living situation and support system. There is no pressure. If you would prefer to share some information in subsequent sessions when we have developed a rapport that's fine. I welcome your questions and concerns.

We will end by scheduling our next session.