Have you struggled to find meaning in your life or have you been taken into the grips of saddness, hopelessness and depression? Do you suffer from anxious thoughts and feelings that cause you to avoid valued areas of your life? Have you had difficulty recovering intimacy and connection in your love relationships or have you been wounded by your intimate partner?
Have you suffered a loss or have past wounds resurfaced into your life causing heartache? Do you find that your thoughts are consumed by past experiences or by future fears? If so, counseling, and mindfulness based therapies in particular may be the right fit you. With Mindful Trails Counseling (MTC), my mission is help people discover a more present and heart-guided experience on the trails of our lives, allowing for vitality and joy to replace the fears, suffering and anxieties that often lead us off our path.
I utilize mindfulness and somatic, body based therapies in assisting clients on this journey. At MTC, I am able to offer both professional counseling services that take place in an office setting, and/or equine assisted psychotherapy (EAP).
Have you suffered a loss or have past wounds resurfaced into your life causing heartache? Do you find that your thoughts are consumed by past experiences or by future fears? If so, counseling, and mindfulness based therapies in particular may be the right fit you. With Mindful Trails Counseling (MTC), my mission is help people discover a more present and heart-guided experience on the trails of our lives, allowing for vitality and joy to replace the fears, suffering and anxieties that often lead us off our path.
I utilize mindfulness and somatic, body based therapies in assisting clients on this journey. At MTC, I am able to offer both professional counseling services that take place in an office setting, and/or equine assisted psychotherapy (EAP).
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I am an Oregon native, born and raised on the Central Oregon Coast of Neskowin and then the Willamette Valley of McMinnville.
I graduated from the University of Oregon in 2003 with my bachelors degree in Psychology with honors, and quickly began my career in the mental health field working with adolescents with severe mental, emotional and behavioral disturbances in a residential inpatient treatment setting.
I started pursuing my masters degree in couseling psychology, marriage and family therapy in 2006 - a journey that gave me wonderful clinical experiences at the Dougy Center, The National Center for Grieving Children and Families, and eventually at the Portland VA Medical center for my internship where I currently still work part time.
I graduated from the University of Oregon in 2003 with my bachelors degree in Psychology with honors, and quickly began my career in the mental health field working with adolescents with severe mental, emotional and behavioral disturbances in a residential inpatient treatment setting.
I started pursuing my masters degree in couseling psychology, marriage and family therapy in 2006 - a journey that gave me wonderful clinical experiences at the Dougy Center, The National Center for Grieving Children and Families, and eventually at the Portland VA Medical center for my internship where I currently still work part time.
2 A mental state achieved by focusing one's awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations, used as a therapeutic technique.
Mindfulness is a state of active, open attention on the present.
When you're mindful, you observe your thoughts and feelings from a distance, without judging them good or bad.
Instead of letting your life pass you by, mindfulness means living in the moment and awakening to experience.
Mindfulness is a powerful therapuetic tool and agent of change in the therapy process.
Mindfulness is a state of active, open attention on the present.
When you're mindful, you observe your thoughts and feelings from a distance, without judging them good or bad.
Instead of letting your life pass you by, mindfulness means living in the moment and awakening to experience.
Mindfulness is a powerful therapuetic tool and agent of change in the therapy process.
The EAGALA Model provides a standard and structure for providing Equine Assisted Psychotherapy and Equine Assisted Learning sessions.
Practicing within a model establishes a foundation of key values and beliefs, and provides a basis of good practice and professionalism.
The EAGALA Model provides a framework of practice, but within that framework, there are infinite opportunities for creativity and adaptability to various therapeutic and facilitating styles.
The Team Approach - An Equine Specialist, a Mental Health professional, and horses work together with clients in all EAGALA sessions.
Practicing within a model establishes a foundation of key values and beliefs, and provides a basis of good practice and professionalism.
The EAGALA Model provides a framework of practice, but within that framework, there are infinite opportunities for creativity and adaptability to various therapeutic and facilitating styles.
The Team Approach - An Equine Specialist, a Mental Health professional, and horses work together with clients in all EAGALA sessions.
When I explain "why horses" in relation to working with mental health issues such as trauma and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), depression, anxiety, grief, etc., I always explain that horses, as prey animals, developed a highly attuned ability to sense emotion as a means for survival.
As such they are experts at reading the non-verbals of emotion in each other, people, predators, what have you.
This is why they seem to mirror what is going on within us - more appropriately, they are responding to what is going on within us emotionally, even if we are not aware of what that is.
As such they are experts at reading the non-verbals of emotion in each other, people, predators, what have you.
This is why they seem to mirror what is going on within us - more appropriately, they are responding to what is going on within us emotionally, even if we are not aware of what that is.
I offer traditional in office counseling sessions in addition to EAP for clients who prefer this option.
My therapeutic work in this setting is often done through a systemic lens allowing me to consider how the problem affects and is affected by the systems and relationships around us.
I tend to use an integrative approach to counseling which may include mindfulness-based interventions and somatic (body/feeling/sensation) approaches such as Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Mindful Experiential Therapy Approaches (META).
My therapeutic work in this setting is often done through a systemic lens allowing me to consider how the problem affects and is affected by the systems and relationships around us.
I tend to use an integrative approach to counseling which may include mindfulness-based interventions and somatic (body/feeling/sensation) approaches such as Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Mindful Experiential Therapy Approaches (META).
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