Envisioning Wellness Together
Services
“It's okay to not be okay.”
Envisioning Wellness offers both in-person and telehealth sessions providing clients compassion focused therapy online from the comfort of their home, office, or personal space.
Individual Therapy for Adults
As an adult, your relationship with time changes. The days sometimes seem to drag on, and on and on at other times the years fly by and we are barely remembering what happened. Time seems to speed up and before you know it, you are not as young as you were. THEN add the beliefs and pressure that at this point in our lives we should have things settled down and figured out 🤨😒😩
The hope is that in therapy we can create a space where we can reveal who we really are, what has really happened to us and what we really feel. In recognizing this, we can begin the process of accepting ourselves, in order to heal and move forward in life. Being an adult does not mean you are fully grown, being an adult simply means taking responsibility for continuing your growth.
Relationship with Self
The longest and most important relationship you will ever have is your relationship with yourself. Let's work on exploring your relationship to self, recognize how you talk to yourself, take care of your mind, body, and spirit, prioritize your needs, and honor your values. To work on building your confidence and security with yourself.
With all the societal changes that occur on a regular basis, many young adults and older adults too, are finding it more difficult to adapt and adjust to the pressures/changes/expectations from society, work, family and friends. As a result, many of them struggle with anxiety, relationship issues and depression.
We will work together to support you in learning more about yourself and what you need to feel seen, supported and psychologically safe in relationships.
Relationship with Others
We do not live in this world alone. People impact us. Working with a therapist means talking freely about your stressors and frustrations that involve your closest loved ones, peers, friends, or even coworkers.
Talking about our stress isn't always easy due to fears of being invalidated, dismissed, hurting a loved one's feelings, or letting someone down. We will help you work on your relationships with others by exploring what you need and effectively communicating/setting limits with those around you.
Teens
A place where you are heard.
As a teenager, it can feel as if no one hears or understands you. Being a teenager is an interesting time in your life. As a teenager you are old enough for everyone to expect you to act like an adult, but still too young for anyone to take seriously at times what you are saying and how you feel.
Expectations are placed on you by the adults around you regardless of how you may feel. The world seems to be happy so long as you meet expectations. At times your distress may go unnoticed until someone complains that you’re interrupting a class or not participating or are failing to do what is expected of you.
Family life often seems to move very fast and as a teenager you’re expected to adjust to change quickly with no questions asked.
It is easy to feel overlooked and unwanted in a world that looks through you. I try to make therapy a space where you are heard, a place where their concerns can be honored and where your opinion is the one that matters. Let’s start envisioning wellness together
Parents/Guardians of Teens
Raising a teenager can be difficult and amazing at the same time.
It’s often challenging to tell the difference when teens are healthily working through issues or need help from a therapist.
If you want your teen to have a safe space to process and/or explore their sexual identity or gender identify, If your teen is struggling at home, school, or the community, appears angrier or more irritable than usual, has started hanging out with a different group of friends, seems overly anxious, angry more often and/or sad more often. If they are engaging in risk-taking behaviors- I can support you. Let’s work work together on envisioning wellness if your family.
My goal is to help your teen develop the necessary coping skills to live this life. I have a history of working working with the children ages 14-17 who are experiencing symptoms of anxiety, depression, socialization stressors, mood swings, self-harming behavior and parent/child relationship issues.
Relationship Counseling: Couples, Partners, Married, Parent-Child
As we all know, any healthy relationship requires work and is going to face challenges both large and small. Simple, everyday stressors can strain any relationship. Major sources of stress will often threaten the very stability of the relationship. Therapy is also a dedicated space to check in about your relationship dynamics and work on goals for the continued health of your relationship moving forward.
I believe if each partner in the relationship is willing to address the issues at hand and participate in developing a workable solution, most relationship problems are manageable. But when challenges are left unaddressed, tension get bigger and bigger, we create unhelpful habits/patterns, and the health and longevity of the relationship will be in trouble. The work is not an easy process. The time is to create a space where everyone can voice their concerns and be heard by the other.
Family Therapy
Raising Children, being a child can bring stress, financial stresses, behavioral challenges. The ages and stages of different children can create challenges/frustrations/areas of growth that may require some help to resolve.
Deciding if family counseling is right for a family can be a big decision. While it may feel at first like admitting defeat or failure, in reality choosing family counseling can be a big step forward and positive in getting more support for each other and realign the family system’s structure to a health and effective dynamic.
We will work together to identify tools and develop skills to add to your family's relationship toolbox. You can learn new ways to communicate, work through problems, consequences, and relate to one.
I work with you to develop better communication skills, more effective and consistent habits for the health of your family and better boundary setting. I will also help you to understand the behaviors of your children and how to foster more positive behaviors and interact with them differently.
Culturally Responsive Care
Culturally responsive therapy is responding to and making room for the client’s culture in the therapeutic process. As a culturally responsive clinician, I will follow guidelines for working with diverse groups of people.
I understand that racial, cultural, religious, gender, and sexual identities interact with one’s beliefs and behavior. The expectation and ultimate goals for both the clinician and the client are progress and improvement despite cross-cultural boundaries and differences. I recognize and respect differences and can communicate and interact successfully with clients from diverse backgrounds.
Supervision
Are you a graduate student or a future LPCC looking to obtain your independent licensure? I provide supervision for counselors in training as well as licensed professional counselors needing clinical supervision within the state of Minnesota.
I am a board approved Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor With experience in the field. I have worked in a range of social work/mental health services and settings including, youth experiencing homelessness, in home therapy and skills work. community mental health, and private practice.
I have completed all required supervisor training and am familiar with completing graduate school and licensing paperwork. As a Black clinician I have a perspective that can be helpful in developing your cultural responsiveness in therapy.
Supervision is a process that begins with the relationship formed between the supervisor and the supervisee. This relationship promotes the development of responsibility, skills, knowledge, attitudes, and adherence to ethical, legal, and regulatory standards in the practice of counseling.
Supervision also provides teaching, coaching, and mentoring to the supervisee respectful of the various level of one’s training and academic preparation.
supervision incorporates a component of evaluation into supervision which allows counselors in training as well as licensed professional counselors to grow and develop greater professional competence and increase self-understanding to the counseling profession.
Supervision is a process that is distinguishable from personal psychotherapy. Your personal issues will be addressed in supervision i in part because of the impact of these issues on your professional functioning.
Trainings/Workshops
Mental Health First Aid
Working with Youth and Communities of Color
Mental Health and Suicide with Youth
Trauma-informed Care
Culturally Responsive Interventions & Practices
Self-Care
Health & wellness retreats
Grief support
Corporate Partnerships