Bio
Are you having difficulty making even small decisions? Do you fret over past actions? Have you lost a loved one? Are you having relationship concerns with family, friends, or loved ones? These are normal examples of anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship stress and while the examples may be normal everyone reacts differently and some times we just need help navigating these concerns and realizing the power that we have over them while denying the control they have over us.
I help you explore these current experiences and move through them to align your preferred outcomes to your sense of self. together we’ll explore your thoughts and behaviors and guide that alignment of identity to your ideal life experiences. We’ll explore the power that we give to the things that complicate your life, while finding means to improve your control. We do this together, so that one day you may be able to do this on your own or know when help is most needed.
I’m a mental health counselor with experience and research in wellness and identity matters. I practice in such manners as to address your current concerns and to help find ways for you to cope with, manage, and gain insight into those concerns and why they affect you.
Theoretical Framework and Philosophy
I use an integrative approach utilizing humanistic, psychoanalytic, and social constructivist perspective frameworks to understand my clients’ concerns and help them understand themselves. At the beginning of a client relationship, I use Gestalt therapy techniques to focus on their present concerns. I inform clients new to counseling that the field has come a long way from Freud’s free associations and “tell me about your mom.” Focusing on current concerns helps build trust and an understanding that I am not in the session to judge or demean, but to support and accept the client as they gain an understanding of how their present environment is affecting their initial concerns for seeking counseling.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Resume
My basic resume is available below. Please email me for full contact information and references.
Densen’s House Community Outreach – Destigmatizing Mental Health
Densen’s House is a faith-based, community driven non-profit organization dedicated to assisting women in substance misuse recovery programs with goals and programs that help them to rebuild and lead independent lives, while fostering hope and the freedom to do so. This upcoming event is a community outreach collaboration with Integrative Counseling Services in Oswego to help foster strength and normalization of mental health concerns. This is the outline of the upcoming event.
Play Therapy Week 2023
Play Therapy week 2023 was in of that year. It was in support of the therapeutic forces of play for all ages.