Inspired by DEE Counseling utilizes structured, evidence-based approaches. I involve and encourage clients to identify and build on strengths to promote positive change. As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and EMDR-certified and ART-trained therapist, my primary focus and expertise is therapy for individuals including:

• Trauma
• Anxiety and Depression
• Difficult Break-ups
• Self-Esteem and Growth
• Stress management and coping
• Women’s Issues

My treatment approach combines many evidence-based therapies including cognitive behavioral therapy, which challenges expectations and self-talk and investigates patterns to help you better understand yourself. EMDR and ART are eye movement therapies which provide relief from emotional and mental distress, adjust and redefine beliefs, and lead to a relaxed and calmer mind and body.  I also incorporate polyvagal and somatic therapies to help regulate the nervous system, increase body awareness, and support healing through mind-body connection. 

Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) are eye-movement therapies to help clients process traumatic memories. Both methods use eye movements or other forms of bilateral stimulation to help the brain reprocess distressing memories and reduce the emotional and physical distress associated with them. The goal is not to erase memories but to help you recall them without the same emotional intensity. 

ART and EMDR intensives serve as a powerful way to expedite the healing process, amplifying the transformative journey one would experience in a typical session. Rather than going to counseling for one hour weekly or bi-weekly, you set aside a period of time for intensive therapeutic work.  It is a concentrated way to get the power and benefits of ART and EMDR with longer sessions and less time in between healing and processing. It helps people get deeper, without interruption, and the space to feel better faster. 

Most people will experience trauma in their lifetime whether it’s a car accident, abuse or neglect, the sudden death of a loved one, a violent criminal act, exposure to the violence of war, or a natural disaster. While many people can recover from trauma over time with the love and support of family and friends and bounce back with resiliency, others may discover effects of lasting trauma, which can cause a person to live with deep emotional pain, fear, confusion, or posttraumatic stress far after the event has passed. In these circumstances, the support, guidance, and assistance of a therapist is fundamental to healing from trauma.

Is anxiety taking over your life? Does it feel like you can’t control it no matter how hard you try? Have you already tried therapy but found it ineffective? If this sounds like you, I’m confident I can help. My practice offers the most effective forms of treatment, to get the relief from anxiety that you deserve. When it comes to treating anxiety disorders, research shows that therapy is usually the most effective option. That’s because anxiety therapy – as opposed to anxiety medication – treats more than just symptoms to the problem.

I want you to know that you are not alone and there are people who can help. Many of my clients find relief in realizing that their struggle does not own them and that there are many options available to once again have hope for their lives.

I understand the social stigmas that come with label of being depressed, and thus aim to help clients sort out their environmental, biological and circumstantial factors while offering support and care through a very dark time in their lives.

Have you lost much of the joy you once felt? Are you struggling in an abusive or toxic relationship? Have years of living with low self-worth resulting in a less-than-desirable life?

Throughout the ages, women have been called “the fairer sex.” And yet, were you to ask women about their life experiences, many would admit their life’s events haven’t always seemed so fair.