Clinicians who offer sliding scale payment structures may offer lower or reduced fees based on an individual's ability to pay. Please contact this clinician for more details regarding their fees or sliding scale policy.My Approach to Helping
I believe that our struggles with mental health can often make us think we are outside looking in. Different. Broken. The Black Sheep. When we learn how to change our view of our unique challenges or experiences, they can become strengths and lose their power over us.
My focus is to help individuals increase their awareness of their own wealth of internal strength and ability to make the changes in their lives they want. We will achieve this through a collaborative approach that will bring elements of CBT, ACT, Mindfulness, SFBT, and existential philosophy into the amazing ability you already have to grow.
I have experience working with clients who struggle with multiple mental health concerns ranging from depression, anxiety, substance, and trauma to figuring out who and what their identity and purpose are as they make changes in their lives.
I tend to tell bad and dad jokes, which are sometimes laced with a little sarcastic, self-deprecating humor. I'm client-centered and will follow you on the path you want to walk. Hopefully, I'll be able to challenge you to look into the dark places when you're ready and spot the things you may be missing while you are busy living your life while wrestling with the things that bother you.
I retired from the Army in 2014. I wrestled with my own professional and personal identity and had to start figuring out what I was going to be now that I had to grow up. I needed to do something that I believed had meaning. Therapy has been a wonderful experience and provides such a unique way to be a small part of someone moving from surviving to living.
I approach goal setting in a collaborative way. I'll offer ideas based on what you share, but goals are a personal desire. Sometimes we need to learn how to make goals realistic, measurable, and achievable, and I enjoy collaborating to design them.
I think of the first session as a "getting to know you" phase. I imagine that there is at least some level of discomfort in the first meetings, and I will be mindful of that as we get to know each other and start building a therapeutic relationship.