what to expect in working with me

Make your way into the virtual waiting room by following the link provided via email from SessionsHealth or choose an available seat for in-office visits. Feel free to bring along a drink, snack, or help yourself to the provided refreshments if you’re in-office. Grab any materials you want to use in session and determine any accommodation you need for that day’s session.

I’ll connect us or invite you in when it’s time for your appointment and we’re ready to start.

We’ll settle in as quickly as possible and identify the topics you want to work on. Next, we’ll optimize our time together through processing, reviewing prior work, incorporating supportive interventions to take on challenges and identifying skills and short term goals to focus on between sessions.

We’ll take time to settle in, review our prior session and between session work, identify next areas to work on, process, integrate interventions and explore application, review the session and identify skills and short term goals to focus on between sessions.

I’ll provide you with necessary assessments/paperwork prior to your 1st intensive session to gather more information on your history, background, relationships and readiness to process. 

We’ll start the 1st session by reviewing your assessments/paperwork, priming your brain and body for processing. Next, we'll ensure readiness to process and create a supportive and grounding environment for you to process. 

Once ready, I’ll implement the EMDR protocol and support you through processing as many adverse/traumatic events as possible during a 3 hour session to include scheduled and requested breaks. We’ll check in, confirm scheduling for the next intensive, and review your affect management and self-care skills.

Proceeding sessions with pick up where you left off and continue processing to minimize disruptions and allow for more effective, deeper processing.

Together, we identify current challenges and connections to stress, trauma, and/or neurodiversity. Through exploration of the problem, we’ll identify current efforts to connect and work together and barriers for success. I’ll share new perspectives with supporting input, provide psychoeducation as needed, and help find common ground. We’ll work as a team to explore the ways stress, trauma and/or neurodivergence are impacting the relationship and how to better support the individual and relational needs of all involved. 

This is relational therapy for those looking for licensed mental health counseling who uses clinical and human intuition to help foster connection, cohesion, and healthy interpersonal relationship dynamics. I am not trained/certified in any specific modality and am happy to connect you with a professional who is if you prefer a more structured approach.