I have 15 years combined experience in community mental health, crisis work and higher education. My clientele consists of late adolescents and adults. My personal theoretical orientation blends humanistic and behavioral approaches. More specifically, I often utilize an integrative, trauma informed, and strengths based approach and incorporate interpersonal, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and mindfulness techniques. I enjoy working with individuals navigating life transitions, family dynamics, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, adjustment periods and grief.
The therapeutic process is collaborative. I believe in the power of a healing relationship, and strive to provide a non-judgemental environment with which to explore areas of sexual orientation and gender identity, loss, transition, and work-life balance. My role is to listen, empathize, challenge, and offer suggestions or alternatives to help build a more robust set of tools to assist your own
psychological flexibility and development. Outside of counseling sessions, I may ask you to spend time on experiential homework, journaling, mindfulness techniques, or readings to aid in a deeper connection with your thoughts and feelings.
Case Management has been a component of my entire professional career. I have a varied background in case management with a focus on mental health and navigating health systems. I believe it is important to help individuals and families open doors that they didn't know were there. Having someone in your corner as you are navigating challenges can make the difference in taking successful next steps.
I have worked in case management in mobile crisis office in Queens, NY, domestic violence and sexual assault center in NH, and Higher Education institutions in North Carolina. Helping families navigate systems that seem foreign or closed to them can make all the difference.
College students often quickly find out that they need more support than they originally planned, especially when it comes to mental health care.
It is important to set up the right "team" for a student to be successful, and it is better to have that team in place before there is a need rather than to try and pull things together in the midst of a crisis.
My experience leading a case management team and serving as Dean of Students at Appalachian State University has helped me understand what the needs are for students navigating mental health obstacles and social challenges through their college career. Let me help research the resources available to your student and build out a plan to help them on their road to graduation.
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