My therapeutic approach is solution focused, collaborative, empowering, and person-centered. Using this approach, I will respect your autonomy and expertise in understanding and directing your own life while I provide you compassionate, goal oriented and confidential support. My role as your therapist is to patiently listen, support and challenge you without judgment and always with your goals in focus.
I tailor my therapeutic work to each individual, respecting their unique needs, goals, and values. While I have an eclectic approach, utilizing the best tools and interventions for each unique individual, I often use Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) and mindfulness-based inventions. Using these types of techniques, I can assist you with becoming more attuned to your own thought processes, increasing your awareness and ability to manage distortions and misperceptions that may be holding you back from your personal goals, wellness and/or healing process. With this increased awareness, we can explore how to promote more positive, productive and healthy ways to engage with your world, improving relationships and breaking free from negative patterns. Using mindfulness-based techniques, we can talk about strategies that will help you stay present in the here-and-now instead of dwelling too heavily on the past or worrying excessively about the future. This can help you reduce stress as well as gain a healthier approach to disruptive or overwhelming thoughts and emotions in your day-to-day life so you can stay focused on what is most important to you.
Education and experience: I have a Master’s degree in Psychology and Counseling and have worked in the mental health field for over 12 years. I have provided individual and group counseling to adults of all ages and currently provide clinical supervision for new clinicians. I specialize in treating clients with anxiety and depression, mood disorders, relationship issues, life transitions, grief and loss, PTSD and trauma recovery. I am also trained and experienced in providing affirming counseling to LGBT clients, including working through issues related to coming out, gender identity, and intimate relationships.
Whether you are struggling with everyday challenges, navigating through a big life transition, or even healing from serious trauma, we can work together to build on the strengths you already posses as well as cultivate new insight and strategies to help you move forward towards living your best life.
Additional areas of focus: Addictions, Relationship issues, Family conflicts, Grief, Intimacy-related issues, Eating disorders, Parenting issues, Anger management, Self esteem, Bipolar disorder
WA LMHC 60672648
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Very happy with my experience.
Written on Jul 08, 2017 after therapy with Bekka for 2 weeks on issues concerning intimacy-related