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About My Clients
I have owned/worked in a variety therapeutic setting, including private counseling practices with clients experiencing an array of trauma, vocational depression, mental health concerns, as well as a rehabilitation center for addiction/mental health disorders for women in-patient and outpatient and counseled survivors of trauma, abuse/assault.
My Background and Approach
As a counselor, I integrate person-centered, solution-focused brief therapy, cognitive-behavior, development and humanistic therapies into my approach. Person-center therapy focuses on the client, allowing the client to process thoughts and feelings in an environment of non-judgement and conditional positive regards. Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) is a short-term goal-focused evidence-based therapeutic approach, which incorporates positive psychology principles and practices, and which helps clients change by constructing solutions rather than focusing on problems. Cognitive behavior therapy stresses the role of thinking in influencing a person’s sense of well-being and in controlling their mental health. The cognitive-behavioral approach maintains that emotions and behaviors are directly linked to cognitive processes, so that the way a person thinks about himself/herself or having the world determines how she or he feels and acts.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
People can make better decisions if they have enough information, and they understand how their behaviors and thoughts and experiences impact them. Here are some aspects of counseling and therapy I believe and practice. Counseling includes the client’s active participation, involvement and commitment to recognize problems and concerns and changing behaviors and thoughts and feelings. Therefore, a client will probably have to work both in and out of the counseling session to address his or her concerns. There are no instant or painless or passive cures; instead, an honest exploration of one’s own problems needs to take place. Some changes may be easy and swift; others may take longer, and efforts may need to be repeated.