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Counseling & Coaching
It's critical for individuals and families to find a trusted therapist that specializes in their unique issues. As a 20 year plus clinical social worker, I would be honored to work with you on your current circumstances or past traumas. Also, consider parent coaching to strengthen your child/caregiver connection.
Services
Therapy
Some days or more often then not, you're feeling stressed. Distractions become a way of life, way of getting through the day, pushing yourself to do more, work harder and that mound of stress just grows bigger. Negative, intrusive thoughts loudly takeover. Empower yourself through therapy or not and stay stuck. What’s your choice? Watch yourself grow stronger, lighter, appreciative of life. It's time to say "yes" to you. Let's explore current and past stressors, break down thought patterns.
Therapy joins us together, giving you a hand in self-care.
- INDIVIDUAL THERAPY - Give yourself the time to explore individual therapy with a therapist who gets you, who understands that life can be tough.
- FAMILY SUPPORT - Maybe your child or teen is exhibiting emotional challenges, you're all bursting at the seams...we can explore this territory together. It's beneficial for you to be included in your child's therapy, we can learn to better support each other.
- ANY AGE THERAPY - No matter the age, we've all got history, a history filled with times of sorrow, loss of a loved one, healing or healed from an illness, and caring for loved ones. Exhaustion befriends you, holding on tight. Ready to refocus and live your life? Together we can weave a new path, a path that includes lightness and joy.
Emotional Freedom Technique-Tapping
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)/Tapping is an extraordinary approach that quickly brings about healing current and past traumas, both emotional and/or physical pain subsides. Healing often occurs after just one session. Envision that aching knot in your neck melting away. ALSO, it's fun, watch your stress dissolve through tapping sequences. EFT explained.
Parent Coaching
Strengthen relationships with your children/youth by building a stronger connection and developing new ways to manage your child’s challenging ways. Learn new and simple (yet powerful) tools that lead your family toward a closer relationship, filled with more happiness. Therapy or coaching can provide this support.
"The problems many children have are actually generated by too much time spent in environments where they are expected to ’behave’."- Patti Wipfler
“The essential function of challenging behavior is to communicate to adults that a kid doesn’t possess the skills to handle certain demands in certain situations.” -Ross W. Greene
Parent Support Group
Therapeutic support group for parents of children with PANS/PANDAS, coming Summer 2022. This will be a 5 week closed group, time/day TBD.
Resources
Information on PANDAS
Information on PANDAS
Information on PANDAS
PANDAS is more common then people are aware of and often goes misdiagnosed. "It is believed that approximately one in 200 children are affected, according to PANDAS Network, a research nonprofit for the disease,” according to medicinenet.com
Trauma and Tapping
Information on PANDAS
Information on PANDAS
Tapping through past experiences, specific events or moments in time works to quickly bring about both emotional and physical healing. EFT is an evidence-based approach toward healing. It starts by telling snippets of your past experience, describing the scents or sounds and noticing a change in the emotional intensity associated with the past event.
See Gary Craig's experience with War Veterans and EFT treatment. Find these 5 Tapping steps to easily soothe anxiety.