Revolve Counseling: though you may feel stuck, everything is always moving.
It just depends on shifting your awareness
Rose Heikkinen LCPC, NCC
Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor- Nationally Certified
My experience as an HCT clinician and Sweetser Affiliate, along with participating in professional development workshops, have helped provide insight and knowledge for my clinical practice. Some of the workshops I have attended are Trauma, DBT and Ethical Dilemmas. I will also continue to incorporate art into my practice. Art can be a great therapeutic tool with the right client. Counseling areas I am focusing on: trauma, anxiety, depression, anger management and family therapy.
Though I have shifted my career path from art to counseling it informs my approach. When working with clients I understand there is no set formula for helping or managing difficulties the client may experience. I use an Integrative Therapeutic approach and combine my counseling education and sensitivity as an artist to see healthy and unhealthy patterns of thoughts and behaviors that are unique to each client. Using the client's skills, strengths and resources available, the session are designed to navigate the best way to create changes the client wants in their life.
Offering Individual Therapy
It isn't easy to work through some of life's hardships and understand how to create new ways of understanding how to move forward. In session, through reflective listening, reframing and new perspectives, the client can find answers to where and how they want to move through life. Sometimes that takes time to sift through old narratives and unproductive habits and create new patterns, thoughts, behaviors, and opportunities.
Why Can Therapy Help?
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At times an individual may want extra support to talk about and or explore areas in their life that are causing stress, which can lead to anxiety, depression, mood changes, substance use, compulsive behaviors, and anger. If anyone of those emotional or behavioral issues become significant it can affect relationships, education, finances or day to day functioning. In session, the individual will examine some key areas that may be impacting thoughts, behaviors, and emotions that are related to stressful events, experiences, relationships. With that awareness, the individual can begin to evaluate if those thoughts and behaviors are productive or not. If not, there are ways to shift thoughts and behaviors using a number of different coping strategies, mindfulness and grounding skills. Once coping strategies and skills are developed a new perspective and awareness occur and stressful events will no longer trigger extreme emotions and behaviors
Additionally a client can learn:
New ways to relate and communicate
Build Self Esteem
Connect the Mind and Body
Learn to feel calmer and more comfortable with decision making
Better understand emotions, thoughts and behaviors ​
Become
Finding compassion for one's self and being able to extend that to other's becomes easier if we've understand how our struggles have made us stronger.
