Melissa guides people through issues related to depression, anxiety, trauma, and life transition. Rather than define clients by a diagnosis, she sees the whole person and wants to help individuals and couples achieve fuller lives. Everyone will have personal challenges, which can be opportunities rather than obstacles. With guidance, moments of confusion and frustration can take us to a new level of awareness.
Specializing in psychodynamics and cognitive-behavioral therapies along with EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing), Melissa emphasizes results-driven counseling. Honoring the client's own potential, she facilitates individuals and couples in their capacity to reframe their outlook and to respond rather than react to their circumstances.
This becomes fertile ground for new, effective action.
Specializing in psychodynamics and cognitive-behavioral therapies along with EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing), Melissa emphasizes results-driven counseling. Honoring the client's own potential, she facilitates individuals and couples in their capacity to reframe their outlook and to respond rather than react to their circumstances.
This becomes fertile ground for new, effective action.
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Social context can be the source of our stresses and personal problems, generating a tension that inhibits growth and suffocates relationships.
Likewise, we act out psychological issues through social or cultural behaviors that are limiting or even risky.
Society or social groups may have unhealthy tendencies that bear down on us, or harsh realities may upset the balance of our lives.
A woman might feel outside pressure to get married to have children.
A couple may be on the brink of divorce, because their need for the outward signs of material success have made them emotional strangers.
Likewise, we act out psychological issues through social or cultural behaviors that are limiting or even risky.
Society or social groups may have unhealthy tendencies that bear down on us, or harsh realities may upset the balance of our lives.
A woman might feel outside pressure to get married to have children.
A couple may be on the brink of divorce, because their need for the outward signs of material success have made them emotional strangers.
Social roles are a factor in our process of self-realization, and counseling can help individuals and couples find their own uniqueness.
Women: Today, women have more opportunities than ever before, and with that prospect comes more uncertainty.
Self-definition is potentially both exhilarating and unsettling.
The idea of "having it all" brings with it new expectations and stresses.
Women also undergo marked life transitions that affect hormonal balance, mood, and self-image.
Therapy offers the client a time and a place for sorting through difficulties and transforming them into growth experiences.
Women: Today, women have more opportunities than ever before, and with that prospect comes more uncertainty.
Self-definition is potentially both exhilarating and unsettling.
The idea of "having it all" brings with it new expectations and stresses.
Women also undergo marked life transitions that affect hormonal balance, mood, and self-image.
Therapy offers the client a time and a place for sorting through difficulties and transforming them into growth experiences.
Empathy: Empathy is a quality that gives us insight into another person's nature-of-being.
Each of us is unique: we dynamically shape our world and are reflected by it in a way that is like no other.
Empathy allows us to have an emotional resonance with someone else-to connect-even if our lives and circumstances are different.
We employ this quality when we are engaged in watching a movie or reading a book.
The actress Meryl Streep has said, "The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, " and her career is marked by an ability to virtually inhabit the soul of her characters.
Each of us is unique: we dynamically shape our world and are reflected by it in a way that is like no other.
Empathy allows us to have an emotional resonance with someone else-to connect-even if our lives and circumstances are different.
We employ this quality when we are engaged in watching a movie or reading a book.
The actress Meryl Streep has said, "The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, " and her career is marked by an ability to virtually inhabit the soul of her characters.
Psychodynamic: Our life force adapts to obstacles and restrictions, developing mechanisms that help us cope.
Because they work so well, we may not even be aware of them.
Even if we feel unfulfilled, we hold to patterns which we know and have protected us.
Through psychodynamic therapy, the client can identify adaptations that are self-defeating.
Then a process can begin in which the client can make conscious decisions that are nurturing.
Cognitive-behavioral: We cannot control what happens to us, but we can control how we respond.
Because they work so well, we may not even be aware of them.
Even if we feel unfulfilled, we hold to patterns which we know and have protected us.
Through psychodynamic therapy, the client can identify adaptations that are self-defeating.
Then a process can begin in which the client can make conscious decisions that are nurturing.
Cognitive-behavioral: We cannot control what happens to us, but we can control how we respond.
Melissa Jones brings to psychotherapy her real-world experience as a licensed clinical social worker.
University of Arizona, she worked at Las Familias, an organization providing support for sexually-abused boys, and Child Protective Services in Tucson.
Pursuing her Master of Social Work degree at Barry University in Miami, Florida, Melissa held internships and professional positions that administered to physically and mentally handicapped children and at-risk youth.
By the time she arrived in Colorado, Melissa was well-equipped to counsel students affected by the Columbine High School tragedy in her position with the Jefferson Center for Mental Health.
University of Arizona, she worked at Las Familias, an organization providing support for sexually-abused boys, and Child Protective Services in Tucson.
Pursuing her Master of Social Work degree at Barry University in Miami, Florida, Melissa held internships and professional positions that administered to physically and mentally handicapped children and at-risk youth.
By the time she arrived in Colorado, Melissa was well-equipped to counsel students affected by the Columbine High School tragedy in her position with the Jefferson Center for Mental Health.
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