Individual Counseling in Boise, Idaho

Boise, Idaho Counselor

Create A Stronger Bond

Heal from past wounds and build upon your foundation for the future. With couple's counseling, you'll enable yourself to create the future you deserve. When you stop focusing on obstacles, you'll find the path forward smoother and more inviting. I'll help you create the solutions that are right for your situation. Together, everything is possible.

Counseling Focus:
  •     Betrayal/Affair Trauma
  •     Intimacy
  •     Relationship Strengthening
  •     Communication Improvement
  •     Co-Dependency

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Manage Conflict

We say “manage” conflict rather than “resolve” conflict, because relationship conflict is natural and has functional, positive aspects. Understand that there is a critical difference in handling perpetual problems and solvable problems.
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Make Life Dreams Come True

Create an atmosphere that encourages each person to talk honestly about his or her hopes, values, convictions and aspirations.
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Create Shared Meaning

Understand important visions, narratives, myths, and metaphors about your relationship.
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Trust & Commitment

A person knows their partner acts and thinks to maximize that person’s best interests and benefits, not just the partner’s own interests and benefits. Commitment means believing that your relationship is completely your lifelong journey, for better or for worse

Create A Stronger Bond

Heal from past wounds and build upon your foundation for the future. With couple's counseling, you'll enable yourself to create the future you deserve. When you stop focusing on obstacles, you'll find the path forward smoother and more inviting. I'll help you create the solutions that are right for your situation. Together, everything is possible. Individual Counseling in Boise, Idaho.


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EFT

EFT is an evidence-based modality used to  help couples recognize negative interaction patterns and address one another's underlying needs.

Dr. Sue Johnson is the primary developer of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). EFT targets the defining feature of survival-oriented human connection, namely strong emotion, which systematically shapes core bonding interactions with others.




EFT has demonstrated its effectiveness in over 30 years of peer-reviewed clinical research. Attachment science offers us the most potent model for therapeutic change, especially when dealing with anxiety and depression, and that, of all models of intervention. 

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Benefit #1

Captures the essence of attachment.
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Targets Connection
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Shapes Healthy Bonds

Anxiety & Depression

Find Healing For Anxiety & Depression

ANXIETY 

Anxiety can be crippling. I can help you find freedom from it and give you back your independence and sense of self. I work with you to develop and tailor a plan to help you heal your symptoms and move forward with more confidence and resilience. Anxiety can have many different sources, so we will spend time only understanding the roots of your individual symptoms.

DEPRESSION

The effects of depression can seep into almost every area of your life. It’s possible that you have recently experienced a painful loss, such as the death of a loved one or the end of a relationship or career, that has triggered your sadness, emptiness, or loss of pleasure. Together, we will set a plan to get you on the road to recovery.
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  TRAUMA

Find Healing & Recovery

Trauma is tricky. Every living organism will experience trauma in a lifetime, and it can especially touch human lives in a unique way. Trauma affects us differently than any other phenomenon, depending on factors such as reliency, impact, type of trauma, and the frequency and duration of the trauma. Common symptoms may look like heightened states of anxiety and depression, and accompany many other undesired behaviors including severe physical ailments and distress. Longitudinal research has identified breakthrough interventions from Dr. Francine Shapiro such as EMDR, along with extensive education backing body awareness and exercises. An experiential process in a safe and warm environment will support your healing and growth, and can help you attain the inner peace you desire.

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EMDR

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) for trauma.

Unprocessed traumatic events can cause both physical and mental health symptoms. EMDR is a technique I use to help individuals reprocess and repair traumatic experiences. I use this method of therapy to treat developmental and attachment trauma, acute and post-traumatic stress, grief, anxiety, and depression. EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is an information processing therapy that helps clients cope with trauma, addictions, and phobias. 

During this treatment, a patient focuses on a specific thought, image, emotion, or sensation while simultaneously participating in bilateral stimulation of the body. EMDR consists of 8 total phases. Longitudinal studies support the efficacy of EMDR in treating and resolving trauma over other therapeutic modalities.
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Past Memories

Process experiences that are causing problems,
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Present Disturbance

Processing sets up a learning state.
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Future Actions

Experiences linked to trauma become stored appropriately in your brain.