Meri Graham

LCSW

Therapy is a collaborative process, and I am committed to walking alongside you with empathy, compassion, and authenticity. As a trauma-informed therapist my priority is to provide a safe and supportive place for healing, growth and self-discovery. I recognize how past experiences shape emotions, relationships, and sense of self. Together, we'll work at your pace, using approaches that honor your resilience and strengths, helping you regain trust in yourself and move toward meaningful change. I believe in your ability to change and heal. My approach is integrative, strengths-based, attachment-based, culturally sensitive, and trauma-informed and I will meet you with warmth, compassion and acceptance.

Key components of the therapeutic relationship are authenticity - a real human connection- and that the client is met with warmth, acceptance, emotional attunement, curiosity, self-awareness and humility.

I believe, and have seen in my work, that we all have the inner resources already within us that we need for change, healing and growth. My goal is to help you discover and reconnect with yours. And, we also have blind spots and automatic patterns that we repeat - even when they no longer serve us. Sometimes, an outside perspective can help us gain insight and a new view point to our issue - including the old working models that we hold onto as protection. People often wonder why therapists do what they do. What motivates me to do this job is seeing the change happen in my clients when they discover new ways to approach life, connect with their inner resources, their strengths, vitality and resilience, and find new confidence in their ability to cope and heal.