Expressive Arts Therapists in Dublin, TX

“Unlock Hope to Embrace Life” Don't let your struggles define you any longer. I understand that life can present challenges for teens and adults that sometimes feel impossible to overcome. depression, self-esteem, relationship issues, and more. I will help you navigate through the toughest of times, work closely with you to discover your personal path to mental health well being. The therapy you receive is tailored to your unique circumstances. My goal is to equip you with healthy skills to manage your problems and move forward while feeling empowered to reclaim control over your thoughts, emotions, and life.

My passion is in working with children and adolescents above the age of 5 and their families. I enjoy supporting youth struggling with anxiety, depression, identity, peer relationships, self-esteem, and social and family issues. I am skilled at connecting with children and adolescents through their individual interests and quickly build strong therapeutic relationships. I believe that the therapeutic experience is a truly magical adventure and love utilizing different methods related to play and expressive arts.

Working with children, adolescents, and adults, I utilize solution-focused therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, and expressive arts to tailor sessions to meet the needs of each individual client.

Hello there! I'm Carlee and I adore working with kids, teens, and adults!  Are you struggling with feeling guilty or like you're not enough?  Are decisions about how to parent or how to adult causing unnecessary stress? Maybe you don't like yourself or maybe you or your teen need more support.  Whatever you're dealing with, I'm ready and willing to walk alongside you in your journey to healing.  

I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker/Supervisor and Qualified Mental Health Professional. Starting therapy can be scary and hard, but my hope is to empower my clients to learn the skills to cope and navigate their own ship. While I have the ability to work competently with people of all ages, my specialties are pediatrics, adolescents, and young adults, Utilizing play and expressive arts is something I love to incorporate into my sessions. I enjoy aiding my clients through healing so they can continue to live a productive life. Come as you are, all are welcome here.

Welcome! I am Shelley Jackson and am looking forward to meeting you. I have over 20 years counseling experience working with children and adults. I believe in the inherent good in all people and want to help you live a life worth living. I treat my clients, whether adults or children, with deep respect and offer you a safe place in which to process your problems. I offer you my unconditional positive regard and genuineness as a person. I believe our relationship is the most important part of counseling and to that end I bring 100% of myself into our sessions.

I believe that each individual is capable of harnessing their own inner strengths to overcome various obstacles and life stressors. We will explore your current resources and work together to strengthen those, as well as, create new resources. My approach entails empowering you along your journey of insight and growth. Through collaboration and rapport, we can redefine your sense of self and shift from a place of surviving to thriving. Furthermore, I can utilize traditional talk-therapy, psychotherapeutic yoga, as well as, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR).

My practice is geared towards providing counseling services to young children (with a focus on age 2-4), as well as clients recovering from issues related to COMPLEX trauma. (See www.nctsn.org/what-is-child-trauma/trauma-types/complex-trauma). I am a Registered Play Therapist and a Certified Animal-Assisted Play Therapist (accompanied by a therapy dog and a therapy cat.) I am trained in SMART (Sensory Motor Arousal Regulation Therapy), developed for children with complex trauma, and I am provisionally certified as a Drumbeat facilitator.

At various times in our lives, we need a supportive space to set down the mentally and emotionally heavy things that we carry so we can move toward health and happiness. I am a Licensed Professional Counselor who is devoted to creating a supportive space for each client in their healing journey with warmth, empathy, and unconditional acceptance. I work with all ages but have increasingly developed a passion for working with young children, teens, and young adults over the past 5 years as a child therapist in various rural, non-profit, and school-based settings.

I believe we all possess the potential to meet our challenges and find a fulfilling life. I look forward to accompanying you along this important journey. Through exploration of your experiences and through creative and courageous responses in your relationships, new pathways emerge. I provide conversation, expressive arts, and activity-based therapies with adults, couples, and teens. I provide play therapy for children, allowing them to feel safe, express themselves, and find solutions to problems, all in their natural language of play. I also enjoy collaborating with parents and caregivers to enhance relationships with their children and ease parenting challenges.

If you are struggling with feeling as though you are worthless, unvalued, and unloved, you are struggling with your past trauma, or you are an adult with a new ADHD diagnosis, I would love to come along side you and help navigate these experiences and the emotions that come with them. I bring a listening ear, a non-judgmental attitude, and a sprinkling of sarcasm and humor to sessions. All I ask is that you be ready and open to face your struggles.

If you have decided it’s time to face your trauma head on or trauma has found you and you need support I would love to begin that journey with you.

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Getting started on your growth and healing journey can be scary on your own. Counseling offers a support system so you have someone to take that journey with you. I work with adults, teens, and children with a variety of life concerns. I have been trained in play therapy to provide children an environment to work through their concerns and learn to become self-validating and independent. Expressive arts and activities are my go to when it comes to adolescents. With adults, I believe that they are the experts on their life, and I am here to help guide them through their growth and healing process.

I believe we can discover a life to love - and while life presents us with periods of stability and order, it also contains times of challenge and uncertainty. I trust that the periods of instability that require change can be successfully negotiated through self-exploration and self-compassion. My role as a counseling professional is to create and maintain a supportive, empathic, collaborative environment where you feel safe to explore and experiment with different solutions to your personal difficulties.

Sometimes life takes us off the beaten path, and we find ourselves a bit lost. As a therapist I want to help you find your way. From learning healthy ways of coping to processing and working through difficult experiences, I work to provide safety, warmth, and acceptance to empower clients to face hard memories and heavy emotions.

I believe healing and growth happen when you are seen, heard, valued and given the space to work through life’s challenges. I also see therapy as a collaborative process, where you are the expert in your life. Through developing a safe, therapeutic relationship, I seek to support, encourage and challenge you on your journey to healing and wholeness. Whether you are feeling stuck in unhealthy patterns, experiencing a crisis situation, or seeking to cope with life’s obstacles- big and small, my goal is to provide a space for you to create the change you desire and truly thrive.

I work with teens, individuals & families to help them find balance, movement, change & freedom in their lives. With several years of experience and extensive training, I can help people with a variety of issues including trauma, depression, anxiety, life issues, & more. I look forward to partnering with you in your counseling needs and goals.

Are you confused by your own anger, sometimes over-reacting and regretting it? Does your partner tell you that you are "crazy"? Do you constantly question yourself? Never trust anyone? These can all be symptoms of trauma, which have a negative impact on how you see yourself, others and the world around you. Facing difficulty emotions and unbearable anxiety is scary and overwhelming, this is why you avoid it. The truth is that you have survived the worst of it, it is behind you. Maybe it is time to take the step forward towards healing.