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Welcome to Emergent Hope Counseling

Serving children, teens, adults,

& older adults.

Here to Listen and Support your Journey to a Renewed and Transformed You

Let’s have a chat. Schedule Your Free consultation

Welcome to Emergent Hope Counseling

Serving children, teens, adults,

& older adults.

Here to Listen and Support your Journey to a Renewed and Transformed You

Let’s have a chat. Schedule Your Free consultation

Do you identify with any of these?

Are you struggling with feelings of depression or anxiety? Are you feeling hopeless? Have you stopped engaging and doing the things you loved to do? Are you isolating yourself? Do you wonder often if life is worth living? Are you worried constantly about everything and anything? Do you wonder if you ever will be able to function with your anxiety?

Together we can identify the root causes of your depression and your anxiety.
Process your experiences and equip you with practical skills to help you decrease and manage your symptoms to improve your daily living.

Are you struggling with feeling overwhelmed, feeling stuck, and finding no way out? You wonder at times how will you ever make it in this world with your current circumstances? Either personal, family, relationship, or work related issues?

Together we can explore what circumstances are affecting you emotionally, physically, and mentally.
Provide you with psychoeducational information and form a treatment plan to help you achieve your goal(s).
Help you understand and navigate your life in a more positive way.

Are you struggling with feelings of low self-esteem, insecurity? Do you feel you have lost your way? Do you feel lost in creating relationships and keeping relationships? Do you want to build your confidence?

Together we can explore the factors that have contributed to the way you view yourself and navigate the world.
Together we will connect the dots to the cycle of negative beliefs.
At the same time providing a space for you to practice using the tools to build you up.

Have you been struggling with a substance abuse and drug/alcohol addiction issue? Or are you a family member or friend who is having difficulty with your loved one's substance and or addiction problem?

First of all congratulations! Talking about substance misuse, abuse, and addiction is as tabooish as mental health. You taken the first step to address this is the beginning of a life transforming journey.
Together we will look at the place these substances have taken in your life. How much they are influencing your life (mentally, physically, emotionally, financially, and socially).
Together we will form a plan of treatment to help you navigate the journey and achieve your goals.

Have you wanted to improve the communication and connection in your relationship? Is your relationship experiencing conflict from betrayal, attachment wounds, adjusting to a new life together? Are you or in your relationship experiencing sexual difficulties?

Healthy, honest, and open communication is one of the critical components in any relationship and yet one that can lead to relationship issues if not applied nor used appropriately. We are here to help you understand your own communication style, your relationship communication cycle, and explore tools to help bring better communication and healing to your relationship.
Process resentments as well as other feelings that may hold your relationships back and explore ways to create boundaries and let go of hurt to help you move on.
Sexual health and the correlations of emotional well being in your sexuality and sexual behavior can be explored to help you feel whole sexually individually and in your relationship(s).

Are you trying to decipher if you are in an abusive relationship? Or are you currently in an abusive relationship and feel lost on what to do best for yourself and/ or for your children? Are you a product of an abusive home and are struggling with these feelings? Are you struggling as well with the feelings that come from witnessing the abuse or getting abused yourself? Are you a victim of domestic violence or sexual abuse and are trying to process these circumstances? Are you trying to find the right support,and process your trauma? Are you an adult child of domestic violence and yet can feel and see the lingering effects of your upbringing in your emotions, actions, and way of thinking?

Your resilient self has made it thus far and I am proud of you for seeking help and support. Your courage is already forming the path to healing and the change needed for you.
Together we will identify the warning signs of abusive relationships and right away also asses the level of danger to you; mentally, emotionally and physically.
We will together look at resources in our community that can help you with protection and other areas affected by the abuse.
Together we will process your feelings, the trauma experienced, and build coping mechanisms to navigate this journey and create the healthy emotional life that you deserve.

Have you noticed that you are always loosing your temper and don't like how this affects you and others around you? Are you tired and worried of your poor anger management skills? Have you wanted to break the emotional and verbal abusive cycle you experienced growing up? Are you wanting to change your emotional and mental abusive ways? Are you wanting to learn how to control and manage your anger?

Anger itself is not a negative feeling, it is the way its expressed and used that creates the problems within ourselves and towards others.
Being raised in cycles of poor emotional control and anger used as a weapon can alter the way we see and use our anger.
Together we can explore the origins of your anger, your triggers, and with education and therapy help you manage your feelings assertively without being harmful to yourself and others.

Are you experiencing grief from loosing someone dear to you or loosing something important in your life (job, health, relationship, identity, moving to a new country, status change) and need a place to process these feelings?

Grief is a journey that affects each person differently and each person has their own ways of grieving. Together we can navigate your grieving journey and honer your loss(es) and implement coping tools to navigate your pain while you find yourself again.
The space created for you is yours alone and thus showing your raw emotions through this journey will not be judged nor pacified.

Are you sick and tired of facing challenges such as discrimination, incivility, bullying, or harassment in the workplace, at home, school, or in the community? Do you wonder how to tackle this and also take care of yourself and advocate for yourself? Have you noticed how this is affecting your emotional, mental, and physical well being?

Feeling like an outcast or targeted can affect our well being tremendously yet it is not easy at times to openly speak on what we are experiencing.
Our focus in our sessions will be to explore how all these encounters have affected you, process your feelings, and at the same time provide you with coping tools and skills to protect you from it reoccurring.

Is your child having behavioural issues at school and at home? Do you wonder how you can assist them further for you to understand what they are struggling with and at the same time support their mental health? Is your teenager or young adult struggling with with their emotions and yet they won't open up to you when you try to assist them? Are all these challenges also affecting your relationship and you would like it to improve?

Children and young people go through so many seen and unseen challenges which can be affected by their environment or other conditions.
Counseling can help your child understand their feelings, how to express their emotions, and how to react to triggering circumstances at home, school, and in social environments. Counseling also helps to build the necessary coping tools and life skills sets to navigate their different challenges.
Your child or young person can be followed up at school and at home to help them, their teacher and or care giver understand the different causes of their behavioral and emotional challenges. Consequently establishing a treatment plan to support their continued development in all areas.

About Me

Welcome! I am excited to have you here! Hola! Bienvenido!

My name is Isis Wellman and I am a Licensed
Internationally Certified Alcohol & Drug Counselor (ICADC) and a Nationally Certified Clinical Mental Heath Counselor (NCC). EMDR trained and a Sex therapist. I am also a Life Coach with the International Coaching & Leadership Institute (ICLI).

I have been in the mental health field for 15+ years working with children up to older adults. Working with outpatient and inpatient children's treatment centres, schools, outpatient and residential substance abuse/addictions centres, drug court, acute mental health, dual-diagnosis clinic, domestic violence and sexual assault crisis centre, workforce occupational health, and law enforcement.

I have worked with the South Bend Children's Treatment Center (Indiana, USA), The Women's Treatment Center of Bermuda, Turning Point Treatment Center, The Department of Court Services, The Acute Department of the Mid-Altlantic Wellness Institute, The Center Against Abuse Bermuda, Dignity House Bermuda, and currently serve as the Director of the Occupational Health Unit of the Bermuda Police Service (BPS), Director of the BPS Critical Incident Stress Management Team and member of the Interagency Critical Incident Stress Management Team.

I love working with people of all cultures and nationalities as my cultural background is very diverse as well. I am able to provide sessions in both English and Spanish to you via Telehealth and in-person.

I have a passion in helping individuals learn about themselves and turn all they have experienced or are experiencing into restoration. I am here to ride by your side so that together we help you rise to that emergent version of you.

EDUCATION, CERTIFICATIONS, & TRAININGS

International Certified Alcohol & Drug Counselor (ICADC) with IC&RC. Registered and licensed through the Bermuda Addictions Certification Board (BACB) and the Department of Allied Health Bermuda.
National Certified Counselor Certification with the National Board of Certified Counselors, USA.
Bachelors of Science in Psychology and a minor in Family Studies from Andrews University, USA.
Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Walden University, USA.
Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counseling Certificate from the National University -California Medical Insitute, USA.
Gambling Addiction Counseling Certificate, USA.
Sexual Health & Sex therapy Certificate from the University of Michigan, USA
EMDR Trained Level 1 & 2
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Trained
Gestalt Therapy trained
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy trained
Motivational Interviewing trained
SCARS trained
Critical Incident Stress Management, ICISF trained individual in crisis and group crisis interventions.
Mental Health First Aid
Continued education workshops in addictions, mental health, occupational health, and law enforcement.

Therapy Style

My style is warm, open, and empathic.

I also add in humor and relatability. I come to each session as my authentic self and I keep things real. I also hope and expect you to come to our session feeling comfortable to be yourself. I know how important it is to feel comfortable and have trust with your therapist. Thus, applying the lens that our relationship is a team effort and not me knowing it all. Your journey has much insight and knowledge that together we will tap into. I will be there to celebrate your successes and encourage you during your hard times.

My approach to therapy is from a trauma-informed lens. Assessing the physical, social, spiritual, emotional, sexual, emotional aspects that have guided and impacted your life to form your identity.

With your collaboration,we will identify your goals for therapy and start filling your toolbox with practical skills and solutions to help you start bouncing from life faster and more confident.

My promise to you is to help you grow from your struggles, heal from your pain, and move forward to where you want to be in your life. Through our work together you will be able to use your strengths and resilience to live your best life.

Our Focus

Is to help individuals heal, energize, and become aware of their inner strengths. We achieve this by providing a neutral safe space, listening to your concerns, and customizing together a treatment plan to best suit your needs and goals.

Welcoming New Clients!

I am currently providing virtual counseling and in person therapy services .

Psychoeducational groups & Support groups

There is power and much healing doing therapy and processing feelings as a group. There is support from those who have experienced the same or similar issues you have been through. Groups become also a great support network.

Here is an explanation of both types:

A support group is a gathering of people facing common issues to share what's troubling them. Through the sharing of experiences, they're able to offer support, encouragement, and comfort to the other group members, and receive the same in return

Psychoeducational groups often focus on mental health conditions and help clients learn about potential triggers, how to develop healthy coping mechanisms, and how to avoid pitfalls in the future.

Learn more

Welcome to Emergent Hope Counseling

Welcome to Emergent Hope Counseling

Do you identify with any of these?

Are you struggling with feeling overwhelmed, feeling stuck, and finding no way out? You wonder at times how will you ever make it in this world with your current circumstances? Either personal, family, relationship, or work related issues?

Are you struggling with feelings of low self-esteem, insecurity? Do you feel you have lost your way? Do you feel lost in creating relationships and keeping relationships? Do you want to build your confidence?

Have you been struggling with a substance abuse and drug/alcohol addiction issue? Or are you a family member or friend who is having difficulty with your loved one's substance and or addiction problem?

Have you wanted to improve the communication and connection in your relationship? Is your relationship experiencing conflict from betrayal, attachment wounds, adjusting to a new life together? Are you or in your relationship experiencing sexual difficulties?

Are you experiencing grief from loosing someone dear to you or loosing something important in your life (job, health, relationship, identity, moving to a new country, status change) and need a place to process these feelings?

“Just like there's always time for pain, there's always time for healing”.

About Me

Welcome! I am excited to have you here! Hola! Bienvenido!

Therapy Style

Our Focus

Welcoming New Clients!

Psychoeducational groups & Support groups

Newsletter

Testimonials

Welcome to Emergent Hope Counseling

Welcome to Emergent Hope Counseling

Do you identify with any of these?

Are you struggling with feeling overwhelmed, feeling stuck, and finding no way out? You wonder at times how will you ever make it in this world with your current circumstances? Either personal, family, relationship, or work related issues?

Are you struggling with feelings of low self-esteem, insecurity? Do you feel you have lost your way? Do you feel lost in creating relationships and keeping relationships? Do you want to build your confidence?

Have you been struggling with a substance abuse and drug/alcohol addiction issue? Or are you a family member or friend who is having difficulty with your loved one's substance and or addiction problem?

Have you wanted to improve the communication and connection in your relationship? Is your relationship experiencing conflict from betrayal, attachment wounds, adjusting to a new life together? Are you or in your relationship experiencing sexual difficulties?

Are you experiencing grief from loosing someone dear to you or loosing something important in your life (job, health, relationship, identity, moving to a new country, status change) and need a place to process these feelings?

“Just like there's always time for pain, there's always time for healing”.

About Me

Welcome! I am excited to have you here! Hola! Bienvenido!

Therapy Style

Our Focus

Welcoming New Clients!

Psychoeducational groups & Support groups

Newsletter

Testimonials

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