Many mental health issues are related to a trauma response in the brain and body. Trauma is often conceptualized as one single event or experience that causes intense fear or distress. However, not all people who experience these kinds of events develop trauma symptoms, and many people who do experience trauma symptoms cannot identify a single event such as this. Another way to understand trauma symptoms is that they occur when an individual’s context overwhelms their nervous system’s ability to...
Between balancing work, school pressures, relationships and the 24 hour news cycle, it is natural to feel anxious and overwhelmed. As your therapist, I strive to walk alongside you and build upon your pre-existing skills to empower you to feel confident enough to manage future life stressors on your own and learning to identify what things truly deserve your energy. My approach takes on a trauma-informed lens with compassion-focused interventions. I often like to consider how various systems ...
Life Launch Counseling is dedicated to helping our clients live a full life. In the years since we began providing our services, many people have passed through our doors well on the way to a full recovery. Whether they suffer from chronic mental illness, or dealing with recent problems, our skilled therapists will work with the client to lessen their pain and speed healing. We've helped many people in the local community. Compassionate, confidential, honest and supportive treatment....
Hello and welcome. Firstly, I can offer services for psychological evaluations and therapy. Evaluations can be helpful to address learning disabilities, ADHD, or psychological pieces that are impacting performance in your educational pursuits. Therapy approaches are integrative and dependent on your goals. I work from an integrative approach that looks at all aspects of you, to recognize and boost your strengths and to put in place tools and cushions for any weak areas that are present. I o...
Counseling and therapy is a collaborative effort between therapist and client where we work together to help you reach your goals for emotional healing and psychological well-being. I believe that you have inside of you, what you need to heal, but during times of stress and pain, it's difficult to find. That's why therapy can be so beneficial - it can help you uncover your strengths again, or even perhaps help you see them for the first time, in an environment of complete support and acceptance....
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Hello! My name is Desiree Andersen. I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Certified Advanced Alcohol and Drug Counselor. My practice works to help you manage different mental health or substance use concerns by using multiple treatment approaches to help create a personalized treatment plan that works for you. I work with adults 18+ and have experience working with college students for the past 3 years. I understand the challenges that can arise from transitioning to college and during ...
Dr. Glass genuinely cares about people. He respects the dignity and diversity of all clients and serves them with love and excellence. His expertise is in the psychological evaluation and treatment of clients who have chronic medical conditions which may include but are not limited to diabetes, obesity, chronic pain, cancer, and heart/lung disease. He is also competent in the psychological evaluation and treatment of clients with psychological conditions including depression, anxiety-related dis...
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Welcome to New Beginnings Therapy and Consulting Services, PLLC. My ideal client is someone Who is committed to self-improvement and one who is invested in themselves. I work from a holistic perspective. I believe that we are three-part beings (body, mind and spirit) and each of these domains are impacted by the other and may be perpetuated by physical, social and environmental/cultural factors, rather than mental factors alone. I view all people as capable of change and that they can impr...
We are therapist in West Michigan specializing in Trauma Informed Counseling. Our vision for the company is to provide empirically proven counseling sessions, that are customized and beneficial for all people’s mental well-being in order to achieve positive change....
I believe that you are the master of your own life, and I believe that therapy is a joint process that we can navigate together. I am not here to judge you or tell you how you should be living. I am here to help you develop the tools and understanding needed to create the life you want and meet your long and short term goals. I have a focus centered around the LGBTQ+ community, but also specialize in working with women's issues, anxiety disorders, depression, and grief. I have worked in crisis i...
Are you on the struggle bus and can’t find a way off? Adult-ing is hard, amiright?! Most of my clients are young adults navigating ALL.THE.THINGS while trying to make everyone else happy. Spoiler alert: THIS ISN’T SUSTAINABLE!! Our work together is to guide you in sorting through all the mental muck, tapping into the most authentic version of you. I am not your typical therapist. Well, I do like cardigans and wide rimmed glasses. I also like to laugh a lot and cuss a little, or cuss a lot and l...
Has fighting with anxiety, planning your day around triggers, or feeling distracted and stressed become a part of your everyday life? It can be difficult to keep moving forward, especially when you have frequent symptoms of Anxiety, ADHD, od depression. I tailor treatments to your needs and offer EMDR, DBT, and Trauma Focused CBT. I’m here to accept you as you are, while also being real with you. I will help you uncover all of the messages you have absorbed from other people to find those li...
I help college students who struggle with anxiety, disordered eating, body image, low self-esteem, people pleasing, and impostor syndrome. My clients struggle like you do. Despite being helpers with big hearts who pour into others, life feels hard. They are stuck in anxious thought cycles and exhausted. When they first reach out to me, they are tired of feeling anxious. They often say that they sometimes aren’t even sure if they really need therapy because they are getting by in life. Thei...
I believe that every person has the capacity to grow, develop strengths and skills, heal wounds, and experience new levels of wholeness. Therapy can be a catalyst for these changes; a place to be fully seen, known, and equipped. I work with women to uncover and correct unhelpful coping patterns and belief systems, create sustainable habits for mind-body-spirit wellness, establish healthy attachments in relationships, and foster a strong sense of resilience in the midst of challenges and traumas....
I work with variety of clients, but most of my clients come to me for help with relationship issues -- significant other, friend, family and work relationships. College students often come to me with issues related to roommates, gaining independence from parents, anxiety related to overwhelming school work, career choices and figuring out who they are. College years can be an amazing time of growth and opportunity, but they can also be incredibly stressful. I love to help college students naviga...
Our clinicians are trained in numerous evidence based and best practices including Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, and Trauma Informed Care....
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