Individual Therapy, Counseling, or Wellness Coaching

As a Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW-S), Certified Trauma and Resilience practitioner- Clinical (CTRP-C), and Certified Integrative Mental Health Practitioner (CIMHP), I am equipped to give my clients the tools and strategies they need to effect positive changes in their lives and reach their greatest potential. I focus on my clients' strengths and resilience to help them develop a realistic and achievable plan to reach their goals for their mental and physical wellness. I meet my clients where they are, allowing them to select the areas within my scope that are of greatest priority to them. Coaching might focus on stress management, achieving personal goals, enhancing self-esteem, reducing anxiety or depressive symptoms, developing capacity for mindfulness, incorporating yoga and other mind+body practices for healing trauma, culinary medicine, and integrative mental health. Although coaching differs from therapy, as it does not require a diagnosed mental disorder, I do incorporate therapeutic techniques drawn from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, and Polyvagal Theory. In a safe and supportive space, I will help you to understand and develop skills for managing stress, painful emotions and experiences, and relationship difficulties. Together we will uncover the ways in which your life experiences have impacted your ability to carry out a self-care plan. No matter where you are today, you are at the perfect place to begin to journey. I will walk alongside you as you move away from the maladaptive patterns that hold you back. I invite you to take the first step in moving toward Swellness.

Organizational or Professional Consultation

With nearly 20 years of systems work with diverse populations, combined with my training in trauma-responsive care and holistic approaches to behavioral health and wellness, I can offer a unique perspective for enhancing your staff's understanding and response to their traumatized clients. I offer consultation to professionals, treatment teams, and organizations who support clients with trauma. Consultation can be focused on trauma-responsive client intervention, or to support staff who are experiencing or at risk of experiencing secondary traumatic stress, vicarious trauma, burnout, and compassion fatigue. 

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Training

I love to share my experience and hand down the practice-based wisdom I've accumulated over 20 years of service, by training clinicians, child welfare staff, caregivers, and other helpers and healers all over the state of Ohio. I have the skill set and training experience to help your staff learn about trauma that impacts their clients, or secondary trauma that affects helping professionals and caregivers. As a Certified Clinical Trauma and Resilience Practitioner and a Certified Integrative Mental Health Professional, I offer training in the following topic areas, and I would be glad to design a customized curriculum, tailored to fit your agency's needs: trauma, trauma-informed care and trauma-responsive care, burnout, secondary trauma, self-care, mindfulness, and holistic wellness. 

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See below for upcoming training dates and registration information.