Therapists in Clarkston, MI

Life throws us curve balls that seems hard to recover, but when you have someone and somewhere to support and guide you through, those curve balls turn into steps toward healing, a new journey and thus, a new outcome. I help clients work through life difficulties and changes and help you achieve what's important to you. I understand the significance of providing quality service and meeting the needs of those who put their trust in me. Your counseling experience will fit your needs, whether this means meeting you where you are in life, making services affordable or receiving counseling services through video and telephone sessions.

I approach counseling with clients like a door. Not every locked door can be unlocked with the same key. Different locked doors require different keys to open. What works for one client, may not work for another. This means I work with many different approaches. From Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Psychoanalytic, to Constructionist. However, my main counseling approach, foundation, is Humanistic, Person Centered. This focuses on the therapeutic relationship between the counselor and the client. As a counselor my goal will be to build the relationship with my clients by providing an empathic understanding of my client’s point of view.

I am a Licensed Professional Counselor specializing in individual, couples, and family therapy. With over 15 years experience as a psychotherapist, and as a graduate of Oakland University's Masters of Counseling program, I am currently serving as a private practitioner working with a broad spectrum of clients.

In the hardest moments of life, it makes sense to seek support — someone to help shoulder the pain and guide you through. If you are feeling overwhelmed by relationship difficulties, depression, anxiety, or trauma, counseling is a safe space where you can be seen and heard without judgment. As your therapist, I will be a compassionate guide to walk beside you as you take steps toward healing, learn to work through conflict or trauma in healthy ways, and start to understand your own story.

Your mind races with intrusive thoughts that cause you to worry about everything, or you can't forget about that horrible event that happened to you in your past. Or maybe you lost an important person in your life or experienced a change that took away that feeling of life being normal. You try to move on with life, but you're angry, sad, confused, or feel helpless. Believe me, I’ve been there and done that. And if any of this resonates with you, keep reading or take a look at my website, www.hillside-counseling.com, to find out more about me and what I'm all about.

I believe that kindness, compassion, and empathy are powerful tools to assist clients with building self worth and promoting positive change. I have over 20 years of experience as a therapist and believe it is my calling to work with people to gain personal clarity, improve awareness, and remove barriers that block inner wisdom and self love. I address issues such as depression, anxiety, trauma, spirituality, and relationship conflict. I also work with clients to explore illness and disease in the body using the mind/body connection.

Assisting individuals in overcoming childhood trauma, PTSD, anxiety, and depression is deeply fulfilling and rewarding. At Overcome and Thrive Therapy, our mission is to foster personal and relational growth, guiding clients from mere survival to thriving. As a licensed therapist, I am committed to providing compassionate support as we work together to address past traumas, including PTSD, while tackling present challenges such as depression and anxiety.

Everyday we make choices in our lives. The choices we make, whether positive or negative, affects our emotions. I recognize it is natural for individuals to develop habits of feelings, attitudes and assumptions due to past experiences. I work with people to help them learn to make different choices to live more in the moment with less fears and anxieties about the future. My desire is for people to find their way to become their authentic selves.

Are you struggling to meet your full potential? Does fear seem to get in the way of your true desires? Do your self-perceptions affect other aspects of your life such as your relationships and/or career? The journey of therapy is one of self-reflection and exploration, self-awareness, and growth. I was trained with the Humanistic belief that many factors of one's life play a role in our development and fuel our thought and behavior patterns later in life. Together, we can develop a treatment plan that works best for you and encompasses your current needs and goals.

My professional life has been consistently focused on serving people in need. After obtaining my bachelors degree from Michigan State University, I initially worked in the Governor's office in Lansing. I then decided to exercise my entrepreneurial spirit and transitioned into helping guide economically challenged families to find better housing solutions by developing low cost single family homes and developing large tracts of vacant and abandoned land. This work of helping families led me to desire doing work even more impactful, which led to my returning to school and obtaining my Master's degree in Clinical Psychology from the Michigan School of Professional Psychology.