What do you view as a key component of the therapeutic relationship?

A key component of the therapeutic relationship is the relationship between the therapist and the client. Just like another other relationship, there can be times of miscommunication and healing. If you decide to work with me, we will make sure to work together to ensure the therapeutic relationship between you and I is strong, for the betterment of your healing!

What does a first session with you look like?

A first session with me looks like a conversation between two adults. We will get to know one other, so that you can get a feel for me, as a fit for your therapeutic needs.

What does success look like in therapy? How will a client know that they are making progress?

As a client, you will know you are making progress based on your ability to change your thoughts, actions, and behaviors. As you continue on in therapy, you will naturally start to grow and change in a way that better fits your needs and desires.

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Workplace issues are a common source of stress and can include interpersonal conflict, communication problems, gossip, harassment, discrimination, low motivation and job satisfaction, performance issues, and poor job fit.

Work Stress

Refers relationship issues with a partner or spouse. Can include issues related to relationship distress, relationship satisfaction, communication, intimacy, etc.

Relationship Issues

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.

Self-Esteem

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is characterized by persistent instability in relationships, extreme emotional reactions, and chronic fear of abandonment. People with this may also tend to be moody, experiencing a lot of high highs and low lows.

Borderline Personality Disorder

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.

Adolescent mental health

Children that experience parents and/or guardians that are avoidant, ambivalent, or resistant from an early age, may develop attachment issues. This can manifest as difficulty forming or maintaining friendships, romantic relationships and empathetic bonds throughout life, as well as other issues.

Attachment issues

Condition causing people to worry excessively about appearance or even imagine flaws. Generally distressing to the point of impacting ability to perform everyday activities. Can be experienced by people of any age, gender, or sex.

Body dysmorphia

Involves a person sacrificing their needs to meet the needs of others. Their thoughts and actions center on a significant other, spouse, friend, or relative. Becomes an issue when relationships are unbalanced and unhealthy.

Codependency

Source of communication challenges in circumstances and relationships that can have a negative impact on mental health. Misunderstandings and misinterpretations often lead to arguments in personal, platonic, or professional relationships.

Communication issues

Moving to another place or living in a different culture requires a normal adjustment period. This happens at different rates for different people, some adjusting more quickly than others. Can potentially lead to ongoing issues.

Cultural adjustment

OCPD differs from OCD in that the disorder is deeply ingrained in one’s personality to the extent that the individual cannot and refuses to see the problem. It is oftentimes characterized by extreme perfectionism, order, neatness, and an element of control over others to think and act in similar fashion. As with other personality disorders, the condition is treatable but not curable. Change is extremely difficult with this disorder.

Obsessive compulsive personality disorder (OCPD)

Performance anxiety need not necessarily be associated with any disorder but occurs when one experiences extreme anxiety in anticipation of or while performing a task. Common situations include those that are high stakes, in front of an audience, or while engaging in sexual acts with a desired other.

Performance anxiety

Distress stems from a subjective perception of something being unwanted, undesirable, or detrimental to your wellbeing. Excessive stress significantly impairs mental and physical health and is associated with many diseases and conditions.

Stress

Trauma is the result of experiencing a perceived, extremely distressful event. Although the stress threshold for each person differs, meaning that each person considers and experiences trauma differently, it is an event that tops one’s threshold. It exceeds one’s ability to cope or emotionally process. Symptoms may include shock, anxiety, confusion, hopelessness, feeling disconnected, mood swings, nightmares, and intrusive thoughts.

Trauma

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.

Women's issues

Coping skills are tools and techniques one can learn, practice, and use to handle difficult emotions, decrease stress, and establish or maintain a sense of internal order.

Coping Skills

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Psychotherapy focused on the interaction between thought and behavior. Examines negative thought patterns with the goal of changing responses to negative stimuli. Often used to treat depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Form of positive psychotherapy focusing on internal strengths rather than shortcomings. The goal is to help someone build upon their best qualities and adjust to a more resilient mindset through the exploration of pre-existing strength.

Strength Based Therapy

Form of counseling that helps people resolve ambivalence and insecurity into the motivation to meet specific goals like sobriety. Utilizes collaborative conversation, recognizing how difficult change can be while fostering an atmosphere of acceptance.

Motivational Interviewing

Addresses emotional and mental health of kids, adolescents, and adults who struggle to overcome destructive effects brought on by trauma, which is especially devastating to youth with post-traumatic stress disorder resulting from abuse or grief.

Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy

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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.

Depression

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.

Anxiety

Mood disorder is a broad term used to include the different types of depressive and bipolar disorders, all of which affect mood. With a mood disorder, your moods may range from extremely low to extremely high or irritable.

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What do you view as a key component of the therapeutic relationship?

What does a first session with you look like?

What does success look like in therapy? How will a client know that they are making progress?

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