Find a Therapist in Palatka, Florida.

The focus of my work is supporting teens and couples in making positive changes toward greater life balance, resilience, and acceptance, while exploring meaning and purpose, in order to live authentically. I have supported teens, adults, and couples facing issues ofgrief, depression, anxiety, perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs), anger management, caregiver fatigue, codependency, relationship conflict and/or betrayal, and life transitions. I provide meaning-centered therapy for teens and adults using supportive and evidence-based treatments. As your counselor, I will provide you the safe space to explore your values, grief, and feelings , while receiving nonjudgmental support.

As licensed psychotherapists, we provide a safe and supportive therapeutic environment for helping our clients to process emotions, traumas, and explore their personal experiences to gain insight and make progress toward their goals. Processing your experiences in psychotherapy has many benefits, including lessening undesirable symptoms, increasing positive emotions, improving outlook on life and helping you to understand yourself and your life better. We will utilize psychotherapy techniques tailored to your specific needs to assist you in getting closer to where you would like to be.

Understanding how you view the world can carry immense benefits. I can help you learn how what happened to you may have negatively affected you, and how to understand how that has colored your viewpoint until now. By examining your own history, you can change your life in a positive way going forward. It's almost impossible to see yourself- let me hold up a mirror and help you understand yourself and your world better.

My approach to therapy is not a quick fix or a band-aid approach. It is not self-help advice or executive coaching. It is a process of research-proven, emotional surgery that gets at the heart of your issues and heals them at their source. If you’re like many of my clients, you’ve conquered in the workplace and found success. And yet, you’re not at peace with your life. Whether it’s stress, trauma, addiction, strained relationships, or a lack of motivation, something needs to change. Often, my role is to help successful men get their hearts back. I can help you rediscover your purpose, reconnect with what matters, heal your insecurities, improve your relationships, and leave a legacy.

My style is relaxed and compassionate. I believe psychotherapy can be a fun and interesting adventure. I assist my clients to achieve the goals they set for themselves as soon as possible. I help my clients tap their creativity in meeting the challenges they face. My experience is that people are more resilient than they know. My clients are empowered to discover and use their strengths to transform their lives.I utilize E.M.D.R., Cognitive-Behavioral, Systems, Reality, Art therapy and deep relaxation to reduce or eliminate problems associated with psychological Trauma, Abusive or Psychopathic Relationship Aftermath, Depression Anxiety,Grief, Stress, Anger, Relationship Issues,Chronic Pain.

Psychotherapy is a focused, Interactive process, and which we work together to find solutions to your specific needs and problems. Sometimes we focus on dysfunctional thoughts ("Stinkin' Thinkin'), sometimes on destructive emotions, sometimes in the past, but most often in the present. I tend to be very active in the therapy process, and often give "homework" assignments. It is important that we establish clearly defined goals for therapy at the outset, so that we realize when those goals have been reached.

While there are over 250 different theories of Psychotherapy, there are hopeful and grace-filled practical answers given in God's Word. We have often found that all too many have failed to realize that, in his Grace, God has provided hope and help. We use as our motto a passage Jesus used when beginning his ministry: "to bind up the broken hearted and set captives free" (Is. 61; Luke 4). We are so thankful for the opportunity to give people hope and be part of God's restoration!

Through my master’s level classes in counseling, I’m trained to support my clients through a broad range of issues. So whether you’re struggling with anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, relationship conflict, life transition, parenting challenges, stress, or career challenges, I would be happy to help. Reach out today to begin your breakthrough

My clinical approach is to help a person/family understand their difficulties, define goals, and develop realistic action plans to resolve the challenge (solution focused). I support the person with what they want, they need, and what they are willing to change. I combine many approaches, with the goal of reducing the severity and frequency of difficulties, as well as improve the person’s overall functioning. The reality is the world is difficult, unfair, and at times overwhelming to the human mind. My hope is that I can help you to improve coping skills, develop healthy thought patterns, eliminate harmful behaviors, heal from any traumatic experiences, and to gain healthy relationships.

My psychotherapy approach will depend on the person, their problem and the situation. I prefer solution focused and cognitive behavior approaches, they are easy, brief and allow us to move forward while learning life long techniques. We can change our behavior and most outcomes by becoming aware of what works and most importantly what hasn't it in the past. Together we can identify patterns and create long lasting change.

With a Master’s degree in counseling, I’m trained to treat a wide variety of common mental health issues like anxiety, depression, trauma, stress, grief, and relationship issues. However, my passion is helping stressed out men to overcome their barriers, bad-habits, and insecurities to experience healing and breakthrough. I do so using my training in counseling, my experience in ministry, and my expertise as a trained addiction coach. At Lion Counseling, our mission is to help you escape the cages that hold you back and become the lion God created you to be.