Our Therapy

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Depression, fear, anxiety, and unmanaged anger are some of the most common and uncomfortable emotions that we can experience at some point in our lives. Regardless our age. These feelings can come about from any changes in our environment, stress, grief, transitions, conflict, medical & health status changes, or a crisis. Through counseling and treatment, I am able to help you understand yourself better, recover motivation, perspective, and joy that you once had in your life. 

Many individuals can experience symptoms associated with painful and traumatic circumstances. Anxiety, fear, hopelessness, feeling stuck, feeling paralysed, going through guilt and shame are a few emotions that can linger post traumatic events. Counseling and therapy can help you heal and gain the courage you need to detach from the bonding trauma and leave the past behind. Positive results can be achieved specially by using Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy. You can see an explanation of this therapy further below. 

• I have experience with the following situations:

• Child up to young adult behavioral, emotional, and mental health issues at home and or at school (neglect, abuse, juvenile court, foster-care, school, defiant behaviors, bullying, parent-child conflict) .
• Case management and follow up on the child's emotional wellbeing at home and school and relevant environments. 
• Domestic Violence, sexual assault, and assault survivors.
• Substance misuse, abuse, and addiction from alcohol, nicotine, marijuana, cocaine, and heroin. Connecting the individual to medication assistant treatment programs through inpatient detox and outpatient local and overseas services. 
• Methadone maintenance program.
• Schizophrenia coping mechanisms 
•  Line of duty events 
• Crisis intervention 
• Conducting group therapy 
• Sudden death, grief. 
• Chronic pain or illness
• Sexual health 
• Postpartum depression & anxiety
• Occupational burn out
• Parental burn out
• Vicarious trauma 
• Meditation, bullying, harassment, and Incivility in the workplace 

Specialties: 

• Grief, anxiety, and depression
• Trauma/ PTSD
• Alcohol and drug problems 
• Gambling addiction
• Life Transitions 
• Support for history of sexual, physical, emotional, and religious abuse.
• Domestic violence survivors 
• Sex therapy (struggling with romantic/sexual intimacy and sexual health issues) 
• Family/relationship issues
• Stress-related challenges 
• Anger management 
• Personal and emotional difficulties
• Conflict resolution
• Suicide Ideation and self-harm
• Work -life balance & work place concerns
• Anger management 
• Occupational burn out, vicarious trauma
• Work conflict 
• Child- Adolescent mental health
• Older Adult mental health 
• Critical Incidents 
• First responders 
• Acculturative stress

If you don't find a specialty or issue mentioned, please feel free to ask, so we can see how we can best assist you. 

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences.  Repeated studies show that by using EMDR therapy people can experience the benefits of psychotherapy that once took years to make a difference. It is widely assumed that severe emotional pain requires a long time to heal.  EMDR therapy shows that the mind can in fact heal from psychological trauma much as the body recovers from physical trauma.  When you cut your hand, your body works to close the wound.  If a foreign object or repeated injury irritates the wound, it festers and causes pain.  Once the block is removed, healing resumes.  EMDR therapy demonstrates that a similar sequence of events occurs with mental processes.  The brain’s information processing system naturally moves toward mental health.  If the system is blocked or imbalanced by the impact of a disturbing event, the emotional wound festers and can cause intense suffering.  Once the block is removed, healing resumes.  Using the detailed protocols and procedures learned in EMDR therapy training sessions, clinicians help clients activate their natural healing processes.

EMDR therapy does not require talking in detail about the distressing issue or completing homework between sessions. EMDR therapy rather than focusing on changing the emotions, thoughts, or behaviors resulting from the distressing issue, allows the brain to resume its natural healing process. EMDR is designed to resolve unprocessed traumatic memories in the brain. For many clients EMDR therapy can be completed in a fewer sessions than other psychotherapies. 

EMDR therapy helps children and adults of all ages.

EMDR  treats many issues including:

• Trauma/PTSD/ and stress related issues
• Grief and loss
• Anxiety/depression
• Chronic pain, illness, & medical issues
• Burnout
• Abuse (emotional, sexual, physical) 
• Domestic violence
• First responders/ line of duty critical incidents 
• Eating disorders
• Performance anxiety
• Personality disorders
• Sleep disturbance
• Substance abuse and addiction

Counseling and therapy can be beneficial for everyone. 

The in-person counseling/therapy and case management sessions can occur in a pre-arranged, safe and confidential location such as your home, park, church hall or school. Online sessions are held from the safety of your own home at a time that is convenient for you through our easy scheduling platform.