Services
- Individual
- Couples
- Child
- Adolescent/Teen
- Group
About My Clients
Have you experienced a traumatic event that continues to impact and influence your life, thoughts and behaviors? Do you think that you don't deserve to get better and you self-esteem and self-worth is at its lowest? There are solutions and help for your mental health. Through holistic approaches, it can reduce the negative thoughts, emotions, and behavior symptoms.
My Background and Approach
Michelle’s most rewarding aspect of working with the individual served, is ensuring that their physical and emotional state are addressed, understanding that trauma impacts every area of functioning, assisting clients with identify barriers and challenges, providing positive coping strategies, cognitive restructuring, resources, support, empathy, compassion, and effective quality of care to increase the clients likelihood of meeting their desired personal goals for success. Michelle uses integrated approaches to help individuals explore their lives and address areas of personal discomfort and ultimately finding solutions to address their mental health. Evidence based interventions that are utilized are CBT, solution focus, psychodynamic approach, motivational interviewing, and crisis intervention. Michelle creatively structures a therapeutic environment that increases client/therapist rapport, safety, and goal setting to identify effective, and positive solutions.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe that everyone has the right to self-determination and grow into the human being that they want to be. People can grow and recovery from all forms of mental health struggles that are negatively impacting their life. There is no limit to the humans' ability to improve their quality of life and achieve the goals that they want. Trauma and maladaptive coping strategies can impact many different facets of a person's life such as relationships, view of self-esteem and self-worth, and mental health such as anxiety and depression. Everyone has the capacity to learn better coping strategies that can impact their behavior and thought process which will improve their quality of life. As a child, I experienced multiple trauma experiences that impacted my relationships with others and my view of self. Through therapy, I experienced a freedom from living through my past experiences and learned to forgive others.