How do you determine therapy goals with clients? What does that process look like?
Therapy goals are established during our initial session and I prefer to allow the client to establish their goals. I would like to be the supportive role to allow you to meet your goals.
How does collaboration with other providers play into your work?
Collaboration with other providers helps to provide a different perspective about therapy modalities and provide insight to help a client achieve their goals.
In what ways have your personal experiences influenced your work with your clients?
Personal life experiences helps create empathy and more insight when treating clients.
Specialties
Self-Esteem
Self-esteem is the degree to which a person feels confident, valuable, and worthy of respect. Feeling low self-esteem can influence overall well-being and be linked to anxiety and/or depression.
Adolescent mental health
Adolescent mental health focuses on adolescent-specific experiences including physical and cognitive development, social and environmental factors, sex, sexual identification and orientation, emotional processing, and substance use. Given the influence that parents/guardians have on adolescents, home life is a particularly important consideration.
Anger management
It's normal to experience anger at times, but for some, it becomes so frequent, intense, or difficult to control that it negatively affects their life. Anger management is a structured therapeutic approach toward reducing one’s anger to a point where more appropriate coping and/or conflict management skills are used. Beliefs and thoughts leading toward anger outbursts are explored while healthy coping and interpersonal skills are put into practice.
Women's issues
Women’s health is regarded as the holistic being and experience of being female. This extends beyond consideration for illness and other complex conditions but to general considerations of physical, cognitive, social, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Issues may include female oppression, socialized gender role, female reproductive issues, motherhood, body image, divorce, and substance use.
Behavioral Issues
Behavioral disorders involve a pattern of disruptive behaviors that cause problems in school, at home, and in social situations. Can include hyperactivity, impulsivity, defiant behavior, chronic patterns of aggression, defiance, disruption, and/or hostility.
General Expertise
Depression
Depression often causes people to feel sad, empty, or hopeless, and can cause a lack of interest in life. It can also affect a person's thinking patterns and physical health.
Anxiety
Anxiety can mean nervousness, worry, or self-doubt. Anxiety disorder is a mental health disorder that entails excessive, repeated bouts of worry, anxiety, and/or fear.
Relationship Issues
Refers relationship issues with a partner or spouse. Can include issues related to relationship distress, relationship satisfaction, communication, intimacy, etc.
Loss/Grief
Grief is a reaction to an emotionally significant loss and often comes with symptoms of depression or anxiety. These symptoms can remain intense and last for a long time after a loss, making it difficult to move forward with a healthy lifestyle.
Self-Esteem
Self-esteem is the degree to which a person feels confident, valuable, and worthy of respect. Feeling low self-esteem can influence overall well-being and be linked to anxiety and/or depression.
In-Network Insurance
Sana Benefits
Fees
$80
First Session
$100
Family Therapy
$100
Couples Therapy
$100
Group Therapy
$80
Individual Therapy
Types of Therapy
Family Session
Couples Session
Individual Session
Clientele
Young Adults (18-24)
Adults (25-65)
Adolescents (13-17)
Treatment Approaches / Modalities
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
Training / Certifications
Child and Adolescent Trauma Professional (CATP)-2020
Licensure
GA, LPC, LPC012427
Education
2014-Grand Canyon University- Professional Counseling- MS
2010-Georgia State University-Psychology and African American Studies-BS
Work History
I have been dedicated to the field of counseling for the last eight years. I have experience with trauma, grief, substance use, anger, and repairing interpersonal relationships.
Location
3715 Northside parkway, Building 100 Suite 500, Atlanta, 30327, GA