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My Approach to Helping
I am a licensed internationally & board recognized trauma therapist. I specialize in working with angry, oppositional, depressed, anxious, or suicidal youths. My goal is to build rapport with the child and parent to help foster open communication, exploration of challenges, and growth. My approach is to support, educate, and guide as needed.
I also offer assistance to:
- Parents needing skills (communication, parenting, etc)
-Young adultscollege students with a trauma history
- Young adults or college students struggling with finding their niche or identity
-Young adults or college students experiencing depression or anxiety
-Families struggling with at-risk youths (i.e., teens engaging in delinquent behaviors)
-Youths being released from residential treatment facilities
- Youths with severe mental illness (i.e., bipolar disorder, psychotic symptoms)
In therapy I focus not only on validating your experiences (as appropriate), but also exploring challenges of living (i.e., transitions or changes, family difficulties, loss and grief, suicidal thoughts, questioning of faith or spiritual meaning, low self-esteem, culturally related challenges, healing from trauma or abuse, etc) and how they are affecting you. We all face these things, but how we cope with them is the most important part of therapy.
My main goal with all of my clients is to hear their individual stories and design a therapeutic approach based on the joint efforts of therapist and client. Each session focuses on building personal insight, spiritual awareness, and concrete tools for coping, adjusting, or changing.