M.Ed., LMHC, CMHS, NCC
services offered
EMDR Counseling
Information from www.emdrconsulting.com
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a wonderful counseling technique that targets present concerns. The EMDR approach believes past emotionally-charged experiences are overly influencing your present emotions, sensations, and thoughts about yourself. As an example: "Do you ever feel worthless although you know you are a worthwhile person?" EMDR processing helps you break through the emotional blocks that are keeping you from living an adaptive, emotionally healthy life. EMDR uses rapid sets of eye movements to help you update disturbing experiences, much like what happens during sleep with REM (rapid eye movements). EMDR replicates this sleep pattern by alternating between sets of eye movements and brief reports about what you are noticing. This alternating process helps you update your memories to a healthier present perspective.
My EMDR training was completed through EMDR Consulting, which is approved by EMDR International. I am an active member of EMDR International (www.emdria.org) and am EMDR certified and am working towards becoming a Consultant as a Consultant in Training.
EMDR Consultation for Certification
As an Approved EMDR Consultant I can provide group and individual consultation of consultation towards EMDR certification. I offer individual consultation and hold monthly group meetings (maximum of four participants) in a supportive and collaborative environment to foster your growth towards becoming a certified EMDR clinician. Meetings are held via Zoom or phone.
Internal Family Systems (IFS) Counseling
Information from https://ifs-institute.com/
IFS is a transformative tool that conceives of every human being as a system of protective and wounded inner parts led by a core Self. We believe the mind is naturally multiple and that is a good thing. Just like members of a family, inner parts are forced from their valuable states into extreme roles within us. Self is in everyone. It can’t be damaged. It knows how to heal.
IFS is frequently used as an evidence-based psychotherapy, helping people heal by accessing and healing their protective and wounded inner parts. IFS creates inner and outer connectedness by helping people first access their Self and, from that core, come to understand and heal their parts.
But IFS is much more than a non-pathologizing evidence-based psychotherapy to be used in a clinical setting. It is also a way of understanding personal and intimate relationships and stepping into life with the 8 Cs: confidence, calm, compassion, courage, creativity, clarity, curiosity, and connectedness. Professionals from many different backgrounds such as, but not limited to, body workers, legal mediation, school administration, life coaches, and religious leaders may utilize IFS to inform and guide their work. Our growing list of educational programs aims to serve not only therapists but the wider public and other professions.
The mission of IFS Institute is to bring more Self leadership to the world.