Located in Japan, I am licensed in South Carolina with 13+ years of professional clinical mental health private practice experience as a clinician. I am a LPCS, LPC, LAC with specializations in Traumatology using EMDR, and am a National Board for Certified Counselors: National Certified CACREP Counselor with NCE/NCC credentials. Additionally I am a NBCC NCMHCE Certified Clinical Mental Health Counselor (CCMHC). In my clinical experience I have assisting clients with various ranges of mental health diagnoses and co-occurring disorders. Here at Better Help.com, I focus on assisting clients to understand underlining motivations and causes of issues, improve connections and self esteem, teach healthy ways of coping with life changes, provide clinical professional coaching, teach clients ways to improve healthy brain body responses situationally. I specialize in women issues, autoimmune disorders, and disorders within developmental psychology.
As a military veteran, military retiree veteran wife and mother I provide inner working knowledge of multiple severities of treatment issues with US military members, children, and families WORLDWIDE. I offer 30-45 minute sessions via BetterHelp.Com. I value treating each client with respect, sensitivity, positive regard, providing empathy (not sympathy), transparency, healthy compassion.
I feel treatment planning is a process involving each clients goals to meet unique specific needs in an integrative out of the box approach.
It takes courage to seek out a more fulfilling, healthier life. You have taken the first steps towards empowering yourself or your response to a situation by searching for mental health clinical treatment. I do not do the changing for you. I will assist you to learn to “Get Up” when you feel knocked down emotionally, “Be Raised Up” in learning new responses for a healthier YOU, and how to learn to take your own steps to “Grow.” I am here to support & empower you in your journey to grow healthy.
Additional areas of focus: Stress, Anxiety, LGBT, Family conflicts, Trauma and abuse, Grief, Intimacy-related issues, Eating disorders, Sleeping disorders, Parenting issues, Anger management, Self esteem, Career difficulties, Bipolar disorder, Coping with life changes, Coaching, Abandonment, Adoption and foster care, Attachment issues, Autism and Asperger Syndrome, Blended family issues, Caregiver issues and stress, Chronic pain, illness, and disability, Co-morbidity, Communication problems, Control issues, Coping with natural or human-caused disaster, Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD), Dissociation, Divorce and separation, Drug and alcohol addiction, Eating and food-related issues, Family of origin issues, Family problems, Fatherhood issues, Fertility issues, First responder issues, Forgiveness, Gender dysphoria, Guilt and shame, Hospice and end-of-life counseling, Immigration issues, Impulsivity, Infidelity, Isolation / loneliness, Life purpose, Veteran and Armed Forces Issues, Mood disorders, Multicultural concerns, Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD, Panic disorder and panic attacks, Personality disorders, Postpartum depression, Post-traumatic stress, Pregnancy and childbirth, Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling), Self-harm, Self-love, Sex addiction, Sexual assault and abuse, Sexual dysfunction, Sexuality, Social anxiety and phobia, Somatization, Traumatic brain injury, Trichotillomania, Women's issues, Workplace issues, Young adult issues
Clinical approaches: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), Existential Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Jungian Therapy, Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Somatic Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy, Internal Family Systems
SC LPC 6810