Counseling Programs

Trauma/PTSD

Trauma and PTSD often show up most disrupting in our relationships. Trauma occurs when you find yourself in threatening circumstances when too much happens too quickly, too soon or is too painful you cannot process the overwhelming threat your body records it like a snapshot and stores the trauma for later processing. People with unresolved trauma will notice themselves being triggered easily “a hairline trigger” which is set off, reacting immediately to the slightest provocation or cause.

In otherwards, an offense on a scale of 3 can cause a reaction of an 8 or 9 out of 10 and the body just reacts. You find yourself saying and doing things with great intensity that causes damage to relationships you value which you don’t mean. This may cause you to begin to avoid certain situations, people and circumstances which will begin to make your world smaller and smaller. You may also find yourself checking out even if you don’t want to do so or struggling with addictions to regulate your nervous system. Early development childhood trauma can affect the nervous system not making it feel safe to relax and “let down,” causing long term health effects on the body such as a compromised immune system or accelerating the process of disease and aging. Unfortunately, trauma and PTSD do not heal on their own. Research indicates it actually gets more entrenched in the brain wiring. However, as a trauma informed therapist I have helped hundreds of clients begin their healing journey of desensitizing and reprocessing these waves of traumatic memory disturbances which unburdens their nervous systems, so they are empowered to discover or discover again the ability to relax without fear of the “shoe dropping” and move into a new restorative energy. Helping clients expand their world in a safe way to experience new outcomes in their relationships through curiosity and not judging themselves and allowing themselves the freedom to play! Schedule a free consultation to talk with a professional about Trauma/PTSD Therapy in Florida.

Trauma/PTSD Therapy Includes:

Mindfulness – building curiosity and noticing
Visualizations
Breathing Techniques
Muscle Relaxation
Discover the Characteristics of the Nervous System
Eye Movement and Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
Brain Spotting

Anxiety/Panic Attacks

Suffering from anxiety involves worry, fear, and overthinking about the future. This anticipatory anxiety makes enjoying the moment a difficult task. Anxiety can be terrifying if you struggle with it causing physiological symptoms of hypertension, headaches, irritable bowel syndrome, difficulty relaxing and sleeping or staying asleep.

Prolonged anxiety can affect emotions making you irritable and intensely angry and hard to have and maintain close relationships or feel safe.

Anxiety can produce cognitive distress making it hard to concentrate, read material and retain information. It can cause panic attacks with bodily symptoms of difficulty breathing, racing heart, heaviness of chest, tightness or pressure in the throat and chest, shaking in the limbs, nauseous, a feeling of dying which can end up in an emergency room visit. Having someone to help you navigate these choppy waters of anxiety and panic can help prevent you from feeling overwhelmed, feeling alone, and freezing in 4 feet of waves. Schedule a free consultation to talk with a professional about Anxiety Therapy in Florida.

Anxiety Therapy Includes:

Breathing techniques
Mindfulness
Visualizations
Rhythmic movement
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
Brain Spotting

Grief

Grief is an inevitable hard and painful part of life. You can experience it by a loss of a loved one, loss of a job, loss of a relationship or marriage, loss of freedom, loss of bodily function, loss of innocence, or loss of a dream. Sometimes that grief feels like more than you can bear or that if you let yourself feel the sadness of the grief that you may drown in it. Having someone to help you navigate these troubled waters can help prevent you from feeling overwhelmed or alone in your grief. I have helped many clients move through the swirling under tow of grief to a place of release, acceptance and greater understanding of themselves, others and developing a personal meaningful connection to their loss.

Grief Therapy Includes:

Completing feelings that were cut off
Finding meaning in your loss
Transitional items to memories
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
Brain Spotting

Depression

Feeling depressed, helpless, powerless, hopelessness, lost, disconnected, extreme sadness and sense of being alone feeling like a victim of the “dementors” creatures created by J.F. Rowling in the famous Harry Potter series. Creatures that bring darkness and coldness wherever they go leaving their victims without hope, disruptive eating and sleeping patterns, losing interest in activities they once enjoyed, isolating from relationships, feeling excessive guilt, anger, irritability, difficult concentrating, chronic pain, headaches, or stomach aches producing thoughts of death and suicide. I have helped many clients move through the dark murky waters of depression to the light of healing and a space of feeling warm, connected to themselves, others, and the world around them. Schedule a free consultation with Shelley to talk with a professional about Depression Therapy in Florida.

Marriage/Couples

Shelley is passionate in helping couples not just survive their marriage but thrive in their marriages. She knows that with research based marriage therapy couples can experience renewed affection and respect for each other. Her goal for Marriage counseling in Florida is for each couple to strive for oneness and not sameness and in their unity produce new intimacy and respect for each other. Schedule a free consultation with Shelley to talk to a professional about Marriage/Couples Therapy.

Gottman Therapy will include:

Embrace Conflict – “Run towards the Gun Fire”
Build Love Maps
Share Fondness and Admiration
Work Better as a Team
Create Shared Meaning
Build Rituals of Connection
Identify the Enemy of Marriage – Four Horseman
Antidotes for the Four Horseman

Emotional Focus Therapy will include:

Discovering the Intimacy of Attachment – “Are you there, are you with me?”
Recognizing the Demon Dialogues
Finding the Raw Spots of Your Partner
Engaging and Connecting
Forgiveness and Injuries
Bonding Through Sex and Touch
Keeping Your Love Alive
Healing Traumatic Wounds – The Power of Love
Ultimate Connection – Love as the Final Frontier

Consultations are free
Sessions are $110/60 minutes
Standard rate is $117/50 minute session

How long is the appointment?

15 minute consultation call
60 minutes sessions
50 minutes sessions

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