Hello!
I am licensed in Oregon and Washington with 14 years of professional work experience. I have experience in helping clients with stress, anxiety, family conflicts, trauma, abuse, & depression. I also have experience working with coping with life changes. I believe in treating everyone with respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
My therapeutic style is collaborative and strengths-based. I want to work with clients to try new strategies and skills and help them gain confidence and mastery over the issues that bring distress into their lives. Specifically, I utilize cognitive reframing to look at events and relationships from a balanced perspective. Also, I enjoy working with clients who are interested in identifying boundary issues within their relationships, noticing where they struggle to say "no" or "yes" to the things that they want/don't want is an important part of my work with clients. I am an EMDR Basic Trained Clinician.
My specialties include EMDR to treat Trauma, DNMS, Cognitive Behavioral Interventions, Dialectical Behavior Therapy components (i.e. Emotional Regulation Skills and Distress Tolerance) and Christian Counseling. I also teach the Emotional Freedom Technique and the Butterfly Hug to help clients calm their brain and body when overwhelmed.
Thank you for allowing me to be a part of your healing journey!
Additional areas of focus: Addictions, Grief, Anger management, Self esteem, Bipolar disorder, Coaching, Compassion fatigue, ADHD, Adoption and foster care, Aging and geriatric issues, Attachment issues, Autism and Asperger Syndrome, Blended family issues, Communication problems, Control issues, Divorce and separation, Drug and alcohol addiction, Family of origin issues, Family problems, Forgiveness, Life purpose, Veteran and Armed Forces Issues, Mood disorders, Post-traumatic stress, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), Self-love, Social anxiety and phobia, Women's issues, Young adult issues
Clinical approaches: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Client-Centered Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Trauma-Focused Therapy
OR LPC C6825
WA LMHC LH60024568