Michele Geeting LPC

The first session entails information gathering from a biopsychosocial lens. You have the opportunity to share all and any relevant facts that will help me understand you, your perspective, your challenges, and your goals. Together we will determine the priority for each change item and the frequency of treatment. My goal is to teach cognitive and behavioral skills every session combined with identifying ways to generate support. Each appointment ends with an action plan that is flexible and adaptable but intentional.

Primarily the therapy is a safe space to be yourself and become curious about who you are, and who you want to be – and how to get there. Skills/tools include: cognitive restructuring of shaping core beliefs, identifying and validating emotions and defining core hurts, psychoeducation, locus of control and focusing on what you can control, distress tolerance skills for stressors and reactivity, self-soothing skills, identifying external and internal triggers, cultivating self-acceptance and core sense of self, applying values and faith beliefs to gain alignment, being self-empowering and solution-focused by leaving sessions with an action plan, mindfulness skills to foster living in the present moment, intentional positive actions, skills for reaching out for support, letting go of perfectionism and self-judgment, cultivating effective communication and boundaries, reality-based parenting, and perspective taking.

• Pennsylvania, Licensed Professional Counselor, PC010798