Greetings! I am a Licensed Professional Counselor based in New Jersey. I received my master's degree in Mental Health Counseling, and Organizational Management and Leadership in Human Services from Springfield College. I am a Certified Complex Trauma Specialist and Certified Clinical Military Counselor. I have experience working with children, youth, and adults with mental health, substance abuse and dual diagnosis (medical, developmental, and substance use) for 15+ years. I have provided individual, couples, family and group therapy in inpatient and outpatient settings such as the home, community, hospital, residential/group home, in-office, as well as remote. I am currently focused on providing therapy to ages 18 - 65 who are troubled with anxiety, depression, phase of life problems, relationship issues, chronic stress, existential crisis, and poor self-care. As your therapist, you will experience many realizations and deepen your self-awareness and insight to make informed wise decisions about what actions to take to solve your problems with the right knowledge, coping strategies and other resources that will empower you and help you to stay on track with effectively managing your life with confidence, self-agency and a solution focused mindset.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
In our first session, we will begin establishing rapport through introduction, and I will answer any questions you may have about the process and my background as a therapist. I want to learn more about the reason(s) you decided to seek therapy and your expectations. We will review the intake documentation for accuracy and clarification. All intake documents need to be completed before the initial session. During the clinical intake assessment, if it is indicated, I may need to administer additional clinical assessment(s) or questionnaire(s) to further evaluate your symptoms and the severity of them to ensure you are receiving the appropriate level of care; to make treatment recommendations and to develop your treatment plan with you. I will explain the therapeutic process and structure of sessions. I will review information about privacy/confidentiality, scheduling, communication between sessions, and how crisis is dealt with. Based on the information gathered, we will develop therapy goals that will keep us on track with what you want to accomplish in therapy. I will monitor your progress between sessions and provide clinical feedback along the way to enhance your therapeutic experience.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
I have been told by former clients who had a history of treatment that they learned and accomplished more with me in a short period of time than when they were in therapy with another provider for years. Individuals I treated, uncovered aspects about themselves that were an important piece of their life puzzle. I witnessed clients' personal growth and resiliency as evidence of them having started their own business, completed school/college, got out of toxic relationships, improved self-care, boosted confidence, felt good about themselves, increased assertiveness, comfortable setting healthy boundaries, experienced emotional freedom, relief from grief, gave up substances or practiced harm reduction, thinking and feeling realistically optimistic, (re)gained a sense of humor, verbalized a general satisfaction with their life and so many other benefits. I motivate, empower and provide useful resources. I will brainstorm solutions with you; the answer(s) to your problems lie within you. I deal with subconscious level material to get to the root or core of your issues so that you can move forward in your life instead of reliving similar problems.
Describe the client(s) you are best positioned to serve.
I am currently interested in working with adults ages 18-65 years old who are struggling with adapting or adjusting to one or more situations in their life; self-care practices are poor or declining; ridden with anxiety and fear about the present and/or future; feel a general sense of the blues and stressed; hard on self; and unhappy or dissatisfied with current relationships and/or life circumstances. This is remote only treatment. It is ideal for you to have a strong desire, motivation, and commitment to participate in therapy and a willingness to put in the work in order to make the necessary changes to achieve a favorable outcome in therapy. I want to help you prevent looping in the same problems, engaging in self-sabotaging behaviors, and feeling frustrated and stuck. I aim to build on your resiliency and instill hope to support you with becoming the best version of yourself and living your best life. I am about action and solutions as your partner in therapy. Therapy assignments will be given to do between counseling sessions. Therapy assignments play a crucial role in the therapeutic process. I want you to reap the full benefits of treatment and feel a general sense of happiness, fulfillment and satisfaction with yourself and life.