Mackenzie Osborn (she/her)

I have worked with clients with substance use issues as well as dual diagnosis in multiple settings, including an inpatient dual diagnosis hospitalization setting, medication-assisted treatment through a methadone clinic, and in my outpatient clinical work. I feel confident supporting clients with substance use concerns and addiction through a non-judgmental lens and helping them identify their goals regarding substance use and emphasizing harm reduction to support their life worth living.

Through my various clinical work settings, I have gained expertise in treating clients with various anxiety disorders, including generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, panic disorder, and OCD. I utilize CBT, DBT, Motivational Interviewing, and ACT to help clients reduce their anxiety to limit the distress associated with it and improve their functioning. I recognize anxiety is a human emotion, but that it can become problematic and bothersome without coping skills and management.

My clinical work experience has allowed me to gain expertise in working with teens and adults who are depressed and support them to getting back to life prior to being depressed. Of special note, my work at a suicide prevention clinic for teens and young adults has informed my work in feeling competent and capable of treating clients with suicidality and self-harm, either associated with depression or not. My goal is to help clients get back to a life worth living without their depression.

Motivational interviewing is a modality that I have continued to build expertise in throughout my work in various substance use and dual diagnosis settings. I feel that motivational interviewing supports my view of therapy as a collaborative process and helps the client to identify their own motivating factors to make changes and experience lasting and meaningful differences in their life. I work to help clients identify their life worth living and use motivational interviewing to support this.

In my clinical work, I have gained knowledge and expertise in a DBT-informed approach and have supported this through my participation in a DBT consultation team. I feel competent to use DBT's hallmarks and core components to support clients with various mental health concerns and life challenges to support a life worth living. DBT's framework most closely aligns with my therapeutic process, particularly surrounding the importance of non-judgment, dialectics, and creating a life worth living.

I have gained expertise in how to use CBT in both individual and group settings as well as guide clinical interns on how to use this in their clinical work. I recognize the strengths that CBT has to treat various mental health diagnoses and presenting concerns, and also recognize its limitations and criticisms as it is not applicable to every client with every presenting concern. I aim to use CBT in a way that emphasizes its strengths and how it can be a beneficial part of someone's treatment.

In my clinical work, I have gained knowledge and expertise in a DBT-informed approach and have supported this through my participation in a DBT consultation team. I feel competent to use DBT's hallmarks and core components to support clients with various mental health concerns and life challenges to support a life worth living. DBT's framework most closely aligns with my therapeutic process, particularly surrounding the importance of non-judgment, dialectics, and creating a life worth living.

In my clinical work, I have gained knowledge and expertise in a DBT-informed approach and have supported this through my participation in a DBT consultation team. I feel competent to use DBT's hallmarks and core components to support clients with various mental health concerns and life challenges to support a life worth living. DBT's framework most closely aligns with my therapeutic process, particularly surrounding the importance of non-judgment, dialectics, and creating a life worth living.

In my clinical work, I have gained knowledge and expertise in a DBT-informed approach and have supported this through my participation in a DBT consultation team. I feel competent to use DBT's hallmarks and core components to support clients with various mental health concerns and life challenges to support a life worth living. DBT's framework most closely aligns with my therapeutic process, particularly surrounding the importance of non-judgment, dialectics, and creating a life worth living.