Marnelle Deronette
Hi. I am a licensed mental health counselor who is very empathic, being non-judgment, genuine, using such therapeutic style and approach, to helping you make the growth deemed essential, that you can make positive changes in your life, that you can emerge a life full of happiness, laughter, beauty, and positive, new meaning. In addition to the clinical, therapeutic techniques that I use in my therapeutic relationship with my clients, I also like to incorporate mindfulness meditation practice, helping you to being more present, living in the moment, focusing on positive thoughts, the here and now moment, letting go of any negative, intrusive thoughts, but appreciating your present moment, to alleviating the anxiety, the depression, and other problems affecting your mental health and well-being.
First session
I will show you good, active, reflective listening skills, validating your thoughts and feelings related to your life, past experiences, your life story, to helping you to work effectively in the therapeutic work that you will undertake in therapy.
Strengths
I am very empathic, nonjudgmental, and also insightful, using my clinical perspective about your situation, to helping you gain insight, you gaining a new lens through which you make meaning of your situation for your own well-being and life satisfaction.
Ideal clients
I am clinically adept to serve all clients who are experiencing some distress in their life, affecting your mental health, any problem that seemingly is symptomatic as the negative behaviors exhibited, helping you to gain some better, adaptive functioning, where you can form a worldview that will interdict problem sequencing and help you function better, effectively, and highly, in your living environment, thus having a healing effect for you from any depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress, and including any personality-like symptoms.
Origin story
I was inspired to become a therapist because I care for those who have been affected by a trauma, or the load of the stressors in their life affecting them to the point that they suffer anxiety, that later turn into depression, as they're not able to cope. I care for the wounded ones due to their trauma, that they have had great difficulty to find or build their grounded ways to feel in control again. I want to help those people with trauma informed care treatment and with effective coping skills, and through the lens of therapy, a new perspective to look at one's situation, interpretating the events in one's life with more of a grounded view, changing one's emotional meaning drawn about the life situation, so that one can improve their affective state, feeling happier, more positive, enhancing their well-being. That is my aim.
Treatment methods
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
I am very inclined toward using Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), because I believe that the notion of reframing one's thoughts, making better, positive connotations, ascribing noble intentions to a person's actions, seeing the good, about a situation, and / or about a person, and changing the conceptual and / or emotional meaning that a person draws about a situation will help to dissuade the symptoms that are problematic to one's functioning, thus alleviating the anxiety, the depression, the OCD-like symptoms, the substance abuse problems, and even the personality-like traits that are symptomatic.
Location
Virtual sessions