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About My Clients
My philosophy is based on healing and releasing one's traumatic past by way of peace, acceptance, and cooperation. Positive transformation occurs as you come into self-acceptance, meaningful change, honor your strengths and limitations, and trust your innate ability to heal. I work with people of all ages, abilities, ethnicities, cultural backgrounds, genders, and sexual orientations.
My Background and Approach
Experience Over the past 25 years, I have worked in a variety of mental health settings: private practice, residential treatment centers for adolescents and adults, non-profit organizations, and as a college professor of psychology. My clients need someone who can provide them with the ability to process what is going on for them, to feel heard and understood, and to experience that they matter. Through the addiction treatment centers, my colleagues and I provided an opportunity for connection through community. One of the most powerful ways I have observed clients isi through creativity: painting, ceramics, psychodrama, music, movement therapy, and many other creative outlets. Opportunities to practice self expression is through the arts therapies; it creates an environment of self-reflection, self-awareness and self-confidence.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Please check out my website https://www.heartsongcreativecounseling.com for more information on all the different modalities that I offer: psychotherapy, equine therapy, hypnotherapy, art therapy, expressive arts, Internal Family Systems, EMDR, based in Jungian and Rogerian roots.