online MENTAL HEALTH counseling
-- Trauma Informed Care --
-- 25 years experience --
-- Trauma Informed Care --
-- 25 years experience --
My 25 years of counseling experience enables me to offer research-proven, trauma-informed, experienced counseling/psychotherapy in a manner that is supportive and nurturing and tailored specifically for you. I specialize in treating trauma, attachment/relationship and family of origin issues, childhood abuse, emotional neglect and abuse, anxiety, depression, stress, anger issues, narcissist and/or borderline abuse, and dissociation issues.
Studies, as well as my own experience, have suggested that teletherapy, called by many names including online therapy, is more effective, and clients stay in therapy longer. One study showed that 'the small differences in outcome favored the telehealth-treated patients. The length of stay and the likelihood of staying in treatment until completion were significantly greater in the virtually treated patients. '
Whether you are very tech-savvy or not, the HIPAA portected portal I use has been found by all my clients to be very user friendly, and I rarely have someone who cannot manage it alone -- but if you need any support I will happily provide what you need.
My goal is to help you feel comfortable, heard, validated, seen, and understood while we work together to help you overcome your struggles, heal from past wounds, and move forward in your life.
You will set the goals you want to work on, and we will progress at a pace comfortable and appropriate for you. My focus is on helping you to find your true self, if you have gotten lost in our crazy world., and to help you live your best life.
For your safety and as recommended as best practices, my counseling uses the guidelines of
Trauma Informed Care.
" Trauma-Informed Care understands and considers the pervasive nature of trauma and promotes environments of healing and recovery rather than practices and services that may inadvertently re-traumatize ."
(Quote from Institute on Trauma and Trauma Informed Care at the University of Buffalo)
Online mental health counseling, sometimes called telehealth counseling has been proven to be as effective as in person visits, with some studies showing it to be more effective with depression. It can also be much more convenient. Imagine seeing your counselor from your computer in the comfort and privacy of your own home. Can't find time in your busy schedule? You can do a video session on your phone during your lunch hour. Imagine - all that help without the need to travel anywhere.
Due to licensing guidelines and state laws -- you must be physically located in Washington state at the time of each of our online counseling sessions.
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