About
Clients describe my therapeutic style as interactive, warm, and reassuring. It isn't easy to disclose personal challenges, but my clients have responded pretty quickly to my efforts to build rapport, explore issues, and experiment with solutions. Sometimes this work has been about learning new coping skills, and sometimes the work has been about digging deeply into the past to uproot old patterns that dampen the spirit. In my work with clients--whether individual or couples--I include a focus on integrating body awareness into the work of the heart and mind, so that more profound healing may take place. I have been trained in many approaches, but now focus on trauma work and couples therapy. My training in Somatic Experiencing and application of neuroscience to our work is extremely useful. I also bring skills from John Gottmann's work, Stan Tatkin's work, and especially from the emotionally focused work of Sue Johnson. As I listen to my clients I keep in mind awareness of various attachment styles and threat responses so that I can be as useful as possible. I especially use a somatic framework to deepen a client's experience of self so that they can bring a fuller sense of self to their situation.
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| Qualifications: | University of Texas School of Social Work |
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| Academic Suffixes: | LCSW |
| Expertise: | Anxiety, Codependency, Coping Skills, Depression, Divorce, Domestic Abuse, Grief, Life Transitions, Marital and Premarital, Parenting, Relationship Issues, Self Esteem, Sexual Abuse, Stress, Trauma and PTSD, Veterans, Women |
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