Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see
—William Newton Clark

Integrative Counseling/Psychotherapy

As an integrative counselor and psychotherapist, I help people who are struggling to cope with mental, emotional, and/or physical stress. I apply evidence-based conventional and complementary therapeutic techniques designed to encourage communication of conflicts and insight into your problems, with the goal of relieving symptoms, changes in behavior that lead to improved functioning in all aspects of your life, and your growth as a person.

See below for some of the qualities of my work with you as your counselor/psychotherapist, possible benefits of counseling and psychotherapy, customized treatments, how clients often experience working with me, and examples of concerns my clients bring to our working relationship. Call or email for an appointment today.

My work with you includes:

• Providing a safe, respectful, confidential, and collaborative environment
• Non-judgmental listening to learn about your life and your current desires for your life to be different
• Addressing underlying sources of problems
• Exploring multiple ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving
• Assessing your strengths as well as the challenges you encounter
• Exploring the strengths of your support system
• Problem-solving with you
• Working collaboratively with your other care providers as indicated to best serve your healing process and as requested by you
• Making recommendations to other providers as indicated for conventional and/or complementary care such as acupuncture for depression, anxiety, or pain, etc.

Potential benefits of counseling and psychotherapy include:

• Alleviation of symptoms of depression and anxiety
• Promotion of healing from a difficult experience or life transitions
• Improvement to personal functioning, self-image, sense of well-being
• Improvement in ability to create fulfilling relationships, including with yourself
• Increased self-awareness, insight, and hopefulness

Treatment techniques are individually tailored and may include:

• Insight-oriented psychotherapy
• Problem-solving
• Adlerian Lifestyle Assessment
• Guided imagery
• Mind-body skills
• Stress management
• Resiliency for life changes
• Recommendations to other providers for complementary treatment such as acupuncture, pharmaceutical prescription or evaluation of medications, herbal supplement consultation, massage therapy, nutrition counseling, etc.

Clients are:

• Encouraged to actively participate
• Challenged to explore current assumptions, attitudes, and behavior patterns
• Supported as they develop the skills to recognize and change unhelpful patterns in their life

Treating:

• Depression
• Anxiety
• Grief and loss
• Relationship changes/conflicts
• Life transitions
• Pre-marital, marital, and divorce issues
• People who want to instill fresh purpose into their lives
• Stress: general stress as well as stress arising from specific circumstances such as dissatisfaction with employment, grief and loss as a result of the pandemic, working from home, climate change, managing money/resources, diagnosis of a serious illness, chronic pain, etc.

Call or email for an appointment today: 952-985-3794 or bewell@clairestuckey.com