Rosie Nebel

I bring seven years of clinical experience and more than two years of licensed experience treating clients from a relational perspective. My goal from the time we meet is to connect with you as a human first and therapist second. This means I see you as an individual to build a relationship of trust and collaboration with, rather than as a list of problems to solve. As a trauma-informed therapist, I understand the importance of giving you agency over your treatment and life decisions. No one knows you better than you know yourself, so we set goals together, implement interventions at your pace, and maintain open communication throughout the process.

My greatest strength as a therapist is that I'm the same person with my friends and family as I am with my clients. I bring my warmth, authenticity, open-mindedness, and sense of humor to all my sessions, because first and foremost, I'm a human connecting with other humans. While my years of education, training, and experience have given me a skill set to offer to you, I firmly believe my clients know themselves best. My hope is that by being myself, I can help my clients feel more comfortable being themselves.

I typically open all of my sessions with some variation of this question: "What do you need from our time together today?" This question is an invitation to my clients to pause their busy lives and orient themselves to the present moment and set an intention for our session. During the first session, I will ask what brings you to therapy at this particular time, what hurts most in your life and how I can help, and what you hope the outcome of therapy will be for you. As a marriage and family therapist, I have studied how our family systems shape us, and so I will ask questions about your parents and as many generations before them that you can remember, as well as siblings, partners, children, etc. All topics are suggestions that are optional for you to answer or expand upon. You get to decide what you're looking for from this process and how you'd like to use our time together.