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JoLae has always been passionate about helping people achieve their highest potential. She utilizes a creative, holistic approach to meet individuals, couples, and families where they are in life, addressing symptoms and relational conflict systemically. She values the client’s experience and the unique perspective they bring to their relationships. Providing a safe space, free of judgment, JoLae encourages others to find and express their authentic selves. In this space, she believes in exploring the positive intent behind all behavior and the underlying desire for connection in families and intimate relationships.
Christine’s work is dedicated to helping individuals, couples, and families achieve meaningful change that may allow for deeper and more satisfying connections. Through the therapeutic framework offered in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), the goal is to develop a stronger sense of self as well as safe and secure attachments both in and outside the therapeutic room. In this manner, the troublesome issues that may have been previously challenging to discuss may be safely explored and addressed. Her 23 years of bringing healing in the medical field has enhanced her passion for understanding the essence of the mind-body connection and the important contribution that the family brings into resilience and recovery. This has been her constant inspiration to further her studies. She is in her final year at NCU as a graduate student in the Marriage and Family Therapy Program.
Jordan is excited to work with individuals, couples and families. Her focus is on clients who need a boost in working through their daily stressors, anxiety and depressive feelings they might be having. With her creative approach, she will approach the counseling relationship allowing the client to become comfortable with their own creative side. Doing so will give the client a different perspective on the healing process and different interventions to use outside of the office.
Pain demands your attention, it demands an explanation, and it demands a response.
If you’ve been dealing with chronic pain for any length of time, then you know this all too well. You also know that the attention pain demands can be exhausting, its explanations are rarely satisfying, and treatments are often disappointing.
Though you might feel hopeless at times, you can learn to better manage your pain and live a productive, fulfilling life. It starts with understanding how your relationship with pain influences the pain you experience.
Jessica comes from a multi-faceted and diverse background. Traveling around the world throughout her childhood, adolescence and adulthood has culminated in an empathetic and compassionate approach to anyone she meets. As a child of an active-duty military father, she had to move every three years. With every new move, she learned to adapt to situations, cultures, and structured systems to survive. This ability has affected every aspect of her career. As the Director of Social Services for a 180-bed Skilled Nursing Facility, she learned what true advocacy and compassion are. Serving a lower-income socioeconomic caseload introduced her to the many trials and tribulations of not only happiness but survival.
I am passionate about helping couples, families, and individuals navigate the nuances of life and relationships by fostering a collaborative, safe, and connected therapeutic relationship. If you find yourself feeling trapped in a cycle of conflict with your partner, child, or family member that seems hopeless and never-ending, I can walk along with you on the path to regaining hope, peace, and meaningful connection.
People tend to avoid going to therapy. There are lots of possible reasons why; financial concerns, time concerns, not knowing how the process actually works, fear, etc. While I genuinely understand all of the hesitations and reason I also want to explore what is holding you back from living a more authentic life, a more peaceful life, a more fulfilling life.
With spring on the horizon, many people recommit to their new year’s resolutions to lose a few pounds to achieve that perfect summer body. For some people, dieting may lead to an unhealthy relationship with food and their body. Prevalence rates of eating disorders are on the rise in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020, The National Eating Disorders Association hotline experienced an increase in calls by 70-80%.
What is structural integration? Basically, I use manual therapy and self-care education to help you find lasting relief from pain and stress. My approach is tailored to your needs and oriented around a process that takes your whole body, and you as a whole person, into consideration. This work is about helping you learn how to find a sense of comfort and ease in your body that’s authentic and sustainable so that you can be more fully yourself, at home in your body, and available for life. After a session, clients often report feeling lighter, taller, with less pain and fewer movement restrictions. With diligence, these feelings can often deepen and sustain over time.
There are some disadvantages that should be acknowledged when deciding whether to meet online or in person. One thing that should be considered is the internet; if the connection is slow there may be a lot of buffering and cutting out which could make a session unsuccessful and difficult to follow. Another consideration to be made is that not having that face to face contact can lack nonverbal cues and can make it difficult for people to feel validated or understood. The therapist might also miss cues and could potentially dismiss something that might have more importance than it seems.
When pets become sick or injured, it causes considerable stress and anxiety for the owners. People often don’t think of the impact it has on the doctors, nurses, and other support staff that are treating the beloved fur-babies. Those professionals enter the field because of their love, passion, and commitment to the creatures that enter through their office doors. While in school, I had the opportunity to work in this area and have first-hand experience behind the scenes.
Allow me to introduce you to a treatment called EMDR. EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. I know… it’s a mouthful! Stay with me for a moment, as this is just a fancy title for a treatment that helps our traumatic memories become less disturbing. The memory of a troubling event (or phobia) can get “stuck” in our mind or body.
My running partner and I have covered a lot of miles together. I have come to realize she is often the motivator and I’m the detractor. She is like sunshine and I’m like the rain. She soars and I drag my Asics. As we near the top of a steep hill I think “this is where I die” and she shouts “we got this!”
