I am licensed in South Carolina with 13+ years of professional clinical mental health private practice experience as a clinician. I am a LPCS, LPC, LAC with additional specializations in Traumatology using EMDR, and am a National Board for Certified Counselors: National Certified CACREP Counselor with NCE credentials. I have experience assisting clients with various ranges of mental health nomenclature and co-occurring diagnoses. Here at Better Help.com, we focus on underlining motivations, self esteem, coping with life changes, executive & professional coaching, rebuilding a healthy brain body response. I specialize in compassion fatigue, women issues, autoimmune disorders, and developmental psychology.
As a military veteran, and military retiree veteran wife and mother I provide inner knowledge of multiple severities of treatment issues with a lack of services to US military members, children, families WORLDWIDE. I offer 30 minute sessions via BetterHelp.Com. I value treating each client with respect, sensitivity, positive regard, providing empathy (not sympathy), transparency, healthy compassion.
I tailor our dialog and treatment planning to meet unique specific needs in an integrative out of the box approach.
It takes courage to seek out a more fulfilling, healthier life and take the first steps towards empowering yourself for change. I do not do the changing for you. I assist you to learn to “Get Up” when you feel knocked down emotionally, “Be Raised Up” in learning new responses for a healthier YOU, and how to learn to take your own steps to “Grow.” I am here to support & empower you in your journey to grow healthy.
Additional areas of focus: Stress, Anxiety, LGBT, Family conflicts, Trauma and abuse, Grief, Intimacy-related issues, Eating disorders, Sleeping disorders, Parenting issues, Anger management, Self esteem, Career difficulties, Bipolar disorder, Coping with life changes, Coaching, Abandonment, Attachment issues, Autism and Asperger Syndrome, Blended Family Issues, Chronic pain illness and disability, Communication problems, Control issues, Coping with Natural or Human-Caused Disaster, Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD), Dissociation, Divorce and separation, Drug and Alcohol Addiction, Eating and Food-Related Issues, Expats, Family of Origin Issues, Family Problems, Fatherhood Issues, First Responder Issues, Guilt and shame, Immigration Issues, Impulsivity, Isolation / loneliness, Life purpose, Military and Veterans Issues, Mood disorders , Panic disorder and panic attacks, Personality Disorders, Postpartum Depression, Post-traumatic stress, Pregnancy and childbirth, Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling), Self-Harm, Self-love, Sex Addiction, Sexual Assault and Abuse, Sexual Dysfunction, Sexuality, Social anxiety and phobia, Somatization, Traumatic Brain Injury, Trichotillomania, Women's issues
Clinical approaches: Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), Existential Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Jungian Therapy, Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Psychodynamic Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Somatic Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy
SC LPC 6810