Perhaps you’re overrun with worry, your thoughts spin and spin as you try to make sense of things. You don’t know how to turn that off, and you wake up at night with tightness in your chest or racing heart. Possibly you feel sad and lonely, like you’re not "enough". You feel like you do not measure up to the expectations you feel God has for you or what you have for yourself.
As a Catholic, chances are, you’ve consulted your priest, read inspirational books, and searched the internet for answers to your problems. Yet you’re still on edge, feeling preoccupied and trapped. You decide it’s time to see a therapist who can help you process what’s going on within the context of your faith. With the Church and her teachings as a backdrop, you and I can take a look at what brings you to therapy and come up with coping strategies that work with how you move within your life. Like my other clients, you too can be emboldened by useful feedback and effective tools for managing, alleviated of constant worry, and encouraged when family members notice you seem happier and more relaxed since you began therapy.
You can enjoy the goodness in your life! You can have joy even while you deal with your struggles. As a trauma-informed clinical social worker with background in patient advocacy and trauma, acute crisis, adults with ADHD, hospice and caregiver support, and a wide variety of mental health issues, I have a client-centered approach where you determine the direction of therapy. Many clients also appreciate my familiarity with natural family planning and Theology of the Body. This often provides opportunities for nuanced discussions, integrating natural law principles and psychology to ultimately find a way for you to have a better, more abundant life. Contact me now to get started!
I am a trauma-informed clinical social worker by trade working as a therapist in a solo private practice. In therapy, I use a variety of approaches to help clients explore what brings them to therapy. This is a client-driven process, meaning I take what clients bring at face value. If a client wants to spend many sessions recounting their painful childhood and how that impacts their life now, we will do that. Other clients have more immediate needs, like problem-solving next steps regarding a crisis. Clients have appreciated my perspective and how ideas that I offer cause them to say, "I never thought of it that way."
Along with offering different perspectives, I urge clients to pay attention to their bodies. Is the heart racing, chest tightening, muscles tensing, or head feeling heavy? Promoting body awareness and providing education on ways to calm oneself, I seek to help clients live in the bodies they inhabit even while going through tough times. Often times, clients beat themselves up for feeling depressed or anxious, saying, "Ugh! I shouldn't be feeling this way.", "I should be happy! I am living my faith, doing the right things."
I encourage clients to be compassionate with themselves, to allow themselves to be completely human with all of the imperfection, while urging them to draw on their strength to persevere through the struggles. Together, clients and I find particular strengths they can harness in the context of their faith to continue moving forward, coping appropriately.
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