My Approach to Helping
Are you searching for hope? Carma works collaboratively with many populations striving to discover the hidden resources inside each of us to empower change. The goal is to move toward desired outcomes leading to comfortable, peaceful, productive lives. Carma's areas of interest, experience, and training include relationship counseling, anger management, and rapid trauma resolution.
I enjoy helping couples discover more connection and intimacy in their relationships. Preparing couples for marriage through pre-marital counseling is another area of experience and expertise.
If anger is impacting your life, work or relationships in negative ways, I will work with you to help you understand and gain control of your anger. You can learn to choose different and better responses to the events, situations, and people in your life.
I have a passion to help people be free of the hold that past experiences have on everyday life. We do not have to be held hostage by our past. Learning to let go changes how we view ourselves and the world around us.
More Info About My Practice
I appreciate you wanting to learn more about me. I understand that it is important for you to feel confident and be comfortable with the person you choose to engage with in counseling. I do my best to work together with you to clarify your goals, assess your strengths, and explore your resources.
I have a Master's degree in Mental Health Counseling from Florida Atlantic University. My experience includes group facilitator in a residential substance abuse center for women, student counselor at a community counseling clinic, a student counselor intern at a behavioral health department of a medical center, four years in private practice and more than ten years of pastoral counseling.
I have additional training on rapid trauma resolution. A technique that allows the participant to process through past events while remaining comfortable and calm yet realizing that these events are over and done.
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Specific Issue(s) I'm Skilled at Helping With
The areas in counseling that I feel the most passion about are two-fold: I love helping couples overcome relational problems and I love helping people be successful in working through past trauma or abuse. I have been married to the same wonderful husband for 34 years and consider that experience valuable in couples counseling. I have worked as a professional counselor for over five years and in pastoral counseling for more that 15 years. I have attended many workshops on marriage and family. I constantly read to continue to learn how to be more effective. In the area of trauma resolution, I have over 60hours training in Rapid Trauma Resolution, a techniques that helps the client connect that the past is not happening now and allows them to clear the effects of the trauma or abuse.
What I Love about Being a Psychotherapist
I consider it a privilege to provide clients with at safe place to discuss their innermost thoughts and feelings. I work hard at being insightful, accepting, empathetic as well as gently suggesting and challenging them along the pathway of change and growth. The rewards of this process are what make me passionate about being a mental health counselor. To right before your eyes see a person move toward their goals is extremely rewarding. It is a joy!