Trauma Focused Therapists in McCordsville, IN

Counseling can be intimidating, but I want to foster a safe, compassionate, and empathetic place where you can talk about the things you don’t know how to talk about. As a therapist, I seek to create a space for your true self to shine through as we work together to confront the challenges, insecurities, and past traumas you carry, and to ultimately find healing. At this stage as you consider therapy and seek to find the right fit, I want to encourage you by simply saying that you are enough. You do not have to be more than who you are. And who you are is worthy of love, of care, and of mental and emotional health.

I work with clients by creating a safe space to explore, discover and express personal truths so that they are free to be and accept the best version of themselves and their partners or families. I help to foster emotional discovery, recognize communication barriers and prompt discussions that yield necessary positive change within both the self and within relational connections to others. I help clients to not only identify their personal truths, needs, and boundaries but to learn ways to recognize and accept the same in their relationship with partners or family.

CURRENTLY ACCEPTING NEW PATIENTS I want you to know, you are not alone and you don't have to do this by yourself. I'm a firm believer in therapy, what it can do for the mind, body and soul. I believe that our childhood trauma can be a huge impact on our adult life. It is resiliency that gets us through it. No matter where life has taken you, you can heal and move forward. I have over 10 years of experience. My experience ranges from working with individuals with intellectual abilities, group facilitation, domestic violence advocacy, therapy and public health social work.

I specialize in treating adolescents and adults, as well as LGBTQ+ matters of all ages. I address issues such as anxiety and depression, life transitions, and substance abuse. I work with families on communication and focus on the family's overall happiness and how that can be achieved. I strive to create a safe, welcoming, and non-judgmental environment in order to help you meet your goals.

I serve clients who struggle with long term emotional distress or who have crisis issues in their lives. Clients motivated to understand the conscious and unconscious forces and meanings that shape their experience and their relationships are specially suited to the work I do. I work from the perspective of intersubjective psychoanalytic theory and object relations theory. I am an Accredited Practitioner in Mentalization Based Psychotherapy with Personality Disorders through the British Psychoanalytic Council.

Are you having nightmares? flashbacks? struggling to concentrate? Is past trauma preventing you from moving forward or hindering your relationships? You could be a veteran or postpartum. You could have just lost a loved one or dealing with past childhood abuse. You could be struggling with addiction or having communication issues with your partner. Maybe you just need someone to talk to. I want to help!

My heart is to help individuals and families in need. I am passionate about helping the broken, the lonely, and those in pain. I believe in a person-first approach in which we work together to help address needs and solve problems.

My approach in counseling is to create a client-centered, safe, and empathetic environment where each person can feel supported in their journey toward healing and growth. I try to meet each person where they are to start moving toward their goals. It is a process that might take time, but I hope to join my clients in each step of the journey.

I've always had an interest in working alongside individuals as they navigate their mental health journey. I find that individuals connect best with their varying emotions when they fully examine the meaning behind them and uncover the root cause of their struggles. As a therapist, I view my role as a fellow passenger during the therapeutic process. I believe in sitting with my client as they unpack their emotions, allowing us to examine and process them together. I enjoy working with individuals of all ages with their varying emotional challenges, including children and families.

We can often feel controlled by our emotions, struggling to think clearly, and simply reacting, rather than directing our own life path. It can feel like a tornado of thoughts quickly swirling, leaving us feeling tense and discouraged that life could look any different. We usually just want everything to slow down and feel more at peace. The goal is to provide you with the tools for this to happen so you can move forward with confidence to live a more positive and balanced life.

The world we live in today is full of burden, anxiety, worries, and pressure. Do you feel like you’re on the verge of tears, feeling the need to crash at night, or replaying memories and interactions that are causing you anxious thoughts? If so, I would love to help you. I am a mental health therapist and I work with teens and adults with a range of mental health symptoms.

I believe that while pain is inevitable, suffering is not. Suffering is pain plus all the reactions, feelings, judgments, and ways of coping that add to the experience of pain. No one wants pain or suffering, but what if your methods for dealing with them haven’t worked—and may even have complicated matters? Welcome to the human race!—and to therapy where a professional perspective makes the difference.

We are a group of therapists with years of experience walking with people through the difficulties of life. Our wide ranging specialties and training provide our patients a unique group of professionals to assist you. It is an honor to meet people where they are and start the healing journey together.

Are you feeling stuck, trapped, overwhelmed, or exhausted? Do you find yourself escaping the stress of life in your phone, in your work, in caring for others, or in drugs or alcohol? Or are you impacted by a loved one's addiction? I provide a safe space to make sense of your story and clarify your goals for healing from past hurts and habits. I enjoy helping family and friends understand mental health symptoms and recovery so they can best support their loved ones and heal from pain themselves.

Have you been feeling down, anxious, experiencing low motivation, having trouble sleeping or are you going through a rough time? Do you feel like the harder you try, the more things go wrong? Life has a way of throwing many challenges at us, sometimes all at once. These challenges can impact the way our mind and body function, in ways we may not have even known were possible. The use of Mind and Body Medicine can offer many techniques to reprogram the body and brain to heal from the long term and short term effects of stress. A combination of breath, movement and meditation can reverse these effects and can be used to heal anyone.