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Cassie Watts is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in the state of Michigan. She has a passion for helping teens, adults, and...
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Cassie Watts is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in the state of Michigan. She has a passion for helping teens, adults, and seniors to navigate the complications that arise from depression, grief, parenting, self-esteem difficulties, and life transitional issues.
Cassie received her Master's degree in Counselor Education from Western Michigan University. As a mental health professional, Cassie knows that assisting others with their mental health concerns and conditions requires a collaborative, personalized approach. That's why she's an exceptional choice for individuals who are looking to transition from one stage of life to another.
With Cassie's assistance, you can create an individualized treatment plan that addresses your concerns and helps you grow as an individual. Start moving forward—book a session with Cassie today.
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I am a caring and supportive individual that will help guide children and adults to learn the skills they need, while supporting t...
I am a caring and supportive individual that will help guide children and adults to learn the skills they need, while supporting them through their therapeutic journey.
I'm a Licensed Social Worker (LMSW-C) with over 6 years of experience. I enjoy helping children, adolescents, and adults through their challenges and stressors in life. I specialize in depression, anxiety, adjustment disorders, PTSD, and trauma. I completed my Master's degree in Social Work at the University of Michigan. Throughout my career, I've worked with a wide range of individuals that has equipped me with a profound understanding of the challenges and barriers faced by individuals.
I utilize an array of treatment approaches including cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT), eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), and motivational interviewing.
Everyone has their own unique challenges in life. I look forward to walking alongside you on your therapeutic journey, providing guidance, support, and a listening ear every step of the way. Together, we can navigate the challenges that arise in life. Schedule an appointment with me today.
My goal is meet you with compassion and understanding while helping you to challenge negative thinking and behavior....
My goal is meet you with compassion and understanding while helping you to challenge negative thinking and behavior.
Haili Gabris is a Licensed Professional Counselor with over 6 years of professional experience working with children, adolescents, and adults. She specializes in the treatment of anxiety disorders, including social anxiety disorder, panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, health anxiety, selective mutism, and phobias. She has also worked with depression and trauma, which often presents themselves with other disorders.
Haili graduated from Western Michigan University, earning her Master's degree in Counseling Psychology. She utilizes an integrative approach, including cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and exposure therapy (ET), in order to create an individualized treatment plan for each client.
Her goal as a counselor is to build a positive relationship with her clients in order to help them to feel supported and encouraged. Haili believes that the process of therapy is one of collaboration, encouragement, and challenge. She is passionate about helping clients identify, refute, and change their negative thoughts in order to develop a positive attitude and adaptive behaviors.
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My go-to approach for helping teen clients in counseling is cognitive behavioral therapy. With cognitive behavioral therapy, teens learn to understand that their thoughts create their emotions, and then their emotions dictate their behavior. The clients learn that they can change their thoughts to reduce negative emotions and negative behaviors.
The main tool that I teach in counseling with teens is cognitive restructuring, where the clients identify their negative, irrational thoughts and learn to replace them with rational adaptive thoughts. In addition to cognitive restructuring, I also play therapy games that build social skills and teach relaxation techniques, mindfulness, and anxiety reduction.
I know when a client is making meaningful progress during counseling when they freely report their struggles and offer solutions.
Teens can supplement their time in counseling by using apps to track their moods and cognitive restructuring apps on their phone.
To prepare for their first teen counseling session, a teen can research the therapist that they will be seeing, try to prepare some reasonable goals, as well as identify the things that they feel they struggle with.
Teen counseling helps young individuals better understand and manage the challenges that affect their mental health. Common challenges amongst teens include anxiety, depression, ADHD, and problematic relationships with food.
Teen counseling works by using multiple techniques, tailored to fit the teen’s unique needs — based on their age group, their challenges, and the severity of their challenges. It might involve cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, art therapy, and others for varying ages. In any case, Thriveworks teen therapists in Portage have the expertise and experience to help young individuals at their level.
Signs that teens might need Teen counseling can be very subjective, as they are experiencing many changes and can have intense reactions to them. As parents, you know your child best and are best equipped to judge whether certain reactions are standard behaviors for your teen or whether they might be hinting at a larger problem. Even so, there are a few common signs and events that often point to a need for therapy, such as experiencing divorce or loss, grief, consistent low moods, teens distancing themselves and becoming isolated, losing interest in hobbies, excessive anger or irritability, substance use issues, and suicidal ideation, among others.
Teen counseling providers at Thriveworks in Portage, MI offer both in person and online therapy by video. We encourage you to choose the option that works best for you.
The length of teen counseling depends on your teen’s needs as well as the goals that you and their therapist might have for them. Generally, teen counseling sessions will last for several months.
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