EFT encourages self-awareness, emotional control, and healthier relationships through exploring and dealing with emotions. EFT guides clients with care to discover and resolve emotional problems for positive results and healing.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) helps people manage emotions, improve relationships, and live better. It teaches skills for mindfulness, distress tolerance, regulating emotions, and being effective in relationships.

Clients can handle tough situations, communicate better, and become more self-aware by using these skills. DBT offers practical tools to empower individuals to make positive changes, be resilient, and improve their lives.

For anyone interested in incorporating principles of psychology with prayer and scripture, I offer Faith Based therapy.

Faith-Based therapy offers a unique approach that addresses not only psychological and emotional needs but also spiritual well-being. This can provide a strengthened sense of hope, purpose, and connection. Faith-Based therapy can assist individuals in exploring their beliefs, values, and understanding how these aspects of their faith can be integrated into their overall mental health and relationships.

I’ve found that my most profound healing began when I realized the One, Wonderful Counselor in Jesus (Isaiah 9:6) and I desire to assist others in receiving greater healing through their relationship with God.

Providing kind, understanding support is key in therapy.

I focus on creating a safe space for clients to share without judgment, helping them feel heard and respected. This builds trust, promotes healing, and encourages personal growth and positive change. Clients can explore emotions, gain insight, and work on goals with my compassionate guidance.

The framing for a Health At Every Size (HAES®) approach comes out of discussions among healthcare workers, consumers, and activists who reject both the use of weight, size, or BMI as proxies for health, and the myth that weight is a choice. The HAES model is an approach to both policy and individual decision-making. It addresses broad forces that support health, such as safe and affordable access. It also helps people find sustainable practices that support individual and community well-being. The HAES approach honors the healing power of social connections, evolves in response to the experiences and needs of a diverse community, and grounds itself in a social justice framework.

The Health At Every Size® Principles are:

1. Weight Inclusivity: Accept and respect the inherent diversity of body shapes and sizes and reject the idealizing or pathologizing of specific weights.

2. Health Enhancement: Support health policies that improve and equalize access to information and services, and personal practices that improve human well-being, including attention to individual physical, economic, social, spiritual, emotional, and other needs.

3. Respectful Care: Acknowledge our biases, and work to end weight discrimination, weight stigma, and weight bias. Provide information and services from an understanding that socio-economic status, race, gender, sexual orientation, age, and other identities impact weight stigma, and support environments that address these inequities.

4. Eating for Well-being: Promote flexible, individualized eating based on hunger, satiety, nutritional needs, and pleasure, rather than any externally regulated eating plan focused on weight control. 5. Life-Enhancing Movement: Support physical activities that allow people of all sizes, abilities, and interests to engage in enjoyable movement, to the degree that they choose.

Taking a holistic approach in therapy means addressing the interconnectedness of a person's mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being. By considering all aspects of an individual's life, holistic therapy can lead to a deeper understanding of the root causes of issues and promote lasting healing and growth. This approach helps clients develop a more balanced and harmonious relationship with themselves and others.

Bowen Family Systems Therapy examines family dynamics, individual interactions, and behavioral patterns to enhance self-awareness and relationship skills.

It emphasizes differentiation, managing emotions, exploring multigenerational patterns, and understanding systemic influences for healthier relationships.