Services
Couples Counseling
Each couple experiences bumps in the marriage journey. I provide a safe environment for each couple to share their truth and what they are expecting in their relationship. We all have expectations of others and how we believe they should be. In couples therapy, I help to bridge the gap between unmet expectations and healthy realistic expectations that creates connection and closeness. I guide couples through assertive communication, listening without assuming, and dissolving the blame game. Each couple has individual strengths and I foster those strengths to help the couple not only become happier together but also, set healthy boundaries in and outside of the relationship.
Teen Counseling
Today, teens deal with so much anxiety, depression, and pressure. The suicidal rate has increase to almost 11 per 100,000 a year. I create a safe nonjudgmental space for teenagers dealing with current ideations or past/ present suicidal attempts. The first step in recovery from suicidal attempts and ideation is encouraging teens to ask for help. Tous Truthful counseling fosters an empathetic understanding for teens and helps create a road map to recovery. There is a significant amount of shame and guilt after a suicide attempt. I help teens brainstorm reachable and attainable goals, so they feel successful in their healing process. It's important to create a comprehensive care plan together with the family, friends, and support groups to increase chances of full recovery.
Transitioning Adolescent Therapy
Children transitioning from childhood into the teenage years and teens transitioning to adulthood both share difficulty in the next chapter of life. Transitioning youth struggle with becoming who they want to be. Allowing youth to share their struggles of who they were and who they are becoming in a safe comforting environment helps them gain the confidence they need to be successful in this next chapter of their life.
EMDR Therapy
EMDR – Is a specific trauma focuses therapy that stands for Eye Movement desensitization and reprocessing. Over time when we experience our trauma our brain actually overrides our ability to fully remember and this clauses little misfires in our brain which come out in other ways. If we have not fully processes our trauma our brain creates sort of boundaries for us to not work through the “unsafe areas” if we are not fully prepared to do so. EMDR therapy re creates neurons pathways in our brain to reprocess trauma and eliminate symptoms due to the original trauma. When trauma is left untreated symptoms like flashbacks, inability to concentrate, the feeling of being in fear always, anxiety, panic attacks, depression and always in a fight or flight state. EMDR is a specific type of therapy and has certain criteria that needs to be met in order for it to be fully effective.
Christian Counseling
Christian counseling is a way to bring together spiritual guidance along with personal guidance. When both are present we are able to fully learn how we can become our best authentic self when we figure out how important our spiritual self is to us. Christian counseling allows for a safe space to incorporate personal beliefs in their recovery to their new authentic self. If we understand what Gods words expects from us as believers we have a stricter to help navigate all of life’s difficulties with psychotherapy as well.