Together, we will develop strategies to help you set, maintain, and exceed your goals!

Hello! It's a pleasure to meet you. As a person-centered counselor and educator, I am committed to using a variety of tools to help clients overcome challenges. I strongly believe in collaborating with you, recognizing that you know yourself best, to create plans that help you meet your goals using techniques from CBT, Motivational Interviewing, Solution-focused Brief Therapy, Gestalt, and other modalities.

Together, we will develop strategies to help you set, maintain, and exceed your goals. I believe in the power of people to heal and overcome, and I am here to support you on your journey when you are ready. It's essential that you feel heard, seen, and respected throughout our work together, and I look forward to holding a safe space for you.

I specialize in Substance Use Recovery, LGBTQ+ concerns, survivors of violence, mental health issues, houselessness, grief and loss, and parenting-related struggles. As a team, we will address maladaptive coping skills, develop strategies to improve daily functioning, and utilize learned skills to achieve relief, mindfulness, and overall well-being.

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Where I can Help

• Substance Use Disorder

• LGBTQIA+

• Survivors of Violence

• Parenting

• Treatment Planning

• Abortion, Pregnancy Loss & Miscarriage

• Abuse

• ADHD

• Alcohol Abuse & Alcohol Dependence

• Anger Issues

• Anxiety

• Attachment

• Bipolar

• Body Image Issues

• Career Counseling

• Child Issues

• Chronic Pain or Illness

• Codepency

• Coparenting

• Cultural and Systemic Oppression

• Depression

• Divorce

• Domestic Violence or Intimate Partner Violence

• Drug Dependence/Abuse/Addiction

• Eating Disorders

• Emotional Eating

• Family Caregiving Stress

• Foster Care Issues

• Gambling Addiction

• Gender Identity

• Grief or Loss

• Historical/Intergenerational Trauma

• Immigration/Acculturation

• Incarceration & Reentry

• Infidelity or affairs

• Insomnia

• Intellectual Disability

• Internet Addiction

• Job Stress

• Kink/Sexual Outsiders

• LGBTQ Issues

• Men's Issues

• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

• Panic

• Parenting

• Personal Growth

• Personality Disorders

• Physical Disability

• Political Climate

• Polyamorous and Open Relationships

• Racial Identity

• Relationship/Marriage Issues

• Self-Esteem

• Self-Harm

• Sexual Abuse or Assault

• Sexual Addiction

• Sexual Identity

• Sexual Problems

• Social Phobia

• Spiritual Abuse and Religious Trauma

• Spirituality

• Stress

• Suicidal Thoughts

• Toxic Masculinity

• White Privilege/Fragility

 

My Therapeutic Style​

• Rogerian

• Motivational Interviewing

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

• Addiction Counseling

• Anger Management Therapy

• Attachment Theory

• Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

• Existential Therapy

• Family Systems

• Feminist Therapy

• Gestalt Therapy

• Harm Reduction Therapy

• Holistic Therapy

• Humanistic Therapy

• Internal Family Systems

• Intervention

• Mindful-based Therapy

• Motivational Interviewing

• Narrative Therapy

• Nonviolent Communication

• Person-Centered (Rogerian)

• Solution Focused Brief Therapy

 

A little About me

My Background: I hold an MA in Counselor Education and Clinical Mental Health Counseling, an MA in Criminology and Victimology, a BA in Criminology with a minor in Sociology, and an AA in Substance Use Disorder Treatment Studies. I have been working with clients from diverse backgrounds for 4 years. 

 

My Interests: Dog dad, activist, educator, tattoos, and travel.

 

If you’re interested in booking with me or hearing more, please feel free to contact me at Saxen@SummerSessionsCounseling.org

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