Mental Health Counseling
Mental Health Counseling

Psychotherapy

As a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, I will join you with curiosity, compassion, and openness so that you can explore the fullness of who you are. 
I create space for all of who you are to be able to show up and live your most authentic life. Even the parts of you that have been disowned, neglected, traumatized, or that you have ignored for too long.

I focus on an integrative therapeutic approach which is based on the premise that the body, mind, and spirit are not separate, but rather integrated parts of a whole person. 
This means that each impactful experience has a physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspect, which manifests internally within the body, and externally in relationship with others.
This approach allows the physical (somatic), psychological/emotional, and spiritual to be recognized and treated as a whole in order for each individual to begin to show up more authentically and connected.

The benefits of this approach may include, and are not limited to, stress-relief, decreased anxiety, reduced depression, better communication, enhanced self-awareness, improved emotion regulation, heightened distress tolerance, social and emotional flexibility, relational intimacy, increased resiliency, and living more authentically.

In session you can expect to learn resourcing techniques that will support you to be more grounded, present and resilient. You'll gain awareness of who you are and become well-equipped to cultivate what you want while releasing what no longer serves you. You'll fine-tune your intuition, live more authentically and with enhanced inner connection.

Methods & Techniques

  • Somatic Practices: designed to help individuals clear their minds and connect to their bodies, in order to combine inner awareness, and movement to discharge emotional, mental, and physical blocks and enhance heart centered embodiment of self.
  • Breath Work: General term used to describe any type of therapy that utilizes breathing exercises to improve mental, physical, and spiritual health in order to bring about self awareness.
  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is founded on the basis that our emotional well-being is interwoven with our physical (somatic) state. Therefore, EMDR employs a body-based technique called bilateral simulation during which a therapist will guide a client through through eye movements, tones, or vibration pulses in order to move a memory that has been incorrectly stored to a more functional part of the brain.
  • Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT): The term "dialectical" comes from the idea that bringing together two opposites in therapy -- acceptance and change -- brings better results than either one alone. DBT involves developing four skills sets: two sets of acceptance-oriented skills (Mindfulness & Distress Tolerance) and two sets of change-oriented skills (Emotional Regulation & Interpersonal Effectiveness)
  • Mindfulness: Learning how to focus your awareness on the present moment and to acknowledge and accept your thoughts, feelings, behaviours and bodily sensations as they occur, without the need to control or manipulate them.
  • Neuro Emotional Technique (NET): uses a process known as manual muscle testing to identify “negative emotional complexes” that are being stored in the body, and helps release or resolve them.
  • Trauma Informed Therapy: is not about a specific intervention but rather tailoring interventions in the context of the individual’s trauma history, triggers, and specific needs. It is a lens through which the therapist views their clients, taking into account the impact of trauma on emotions, regulation, and behavior. There is an emphasis on safety, choice, collaboration, trustworthiness and empowerment.
  • SMART Recovery: teaches people how to control their addictive behavior by focusing on underlying thoughts and feelings through building and maintaining motivation, learning how to cope with urges, managing thoughts/feelings/behaviors, and living a balanced life
  • Attachment Psychotherapy: Attachment therapy is based on attachment theory and explores how one’s childhood experiences might impact their ability to form meaningful bonds as adults. 

Credentials & Specializations

Masters In Education: Specialization in Clinician Mental Health Counseling

Licensed Mental Health Counselor in FL

Dialectical Behavior Therapy Foundational Training with Behavioral Tech A Linehan Institute Training Company

SMART Recovery GSF 203: Facilitator/Family & Friends Training with SMART Recovery

EMDR Training EMDRIA Approved Certificate of Completion with Insight Counseling

NET Basic with NETMindBody

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