Hi, I am Whitney.  I specialize in individual counseling for children, adolescents and adults.  I am dedicated to using different strategies and methods to help ensure all her clients are receiving care custom fitted to their needs. I focus on ensuring each client’s individual needs are met. I use multiple modalities of therapy such as Cognitive Behavioral, Solution focused, Narrative, Internal Family Systems, Developmentally Appropriate Child Focused, Christian Integration, and more. These different techniques allow me to help each client through multiple different needs and concerns. I help clients with ADHD, depression, anxiety, stress, self-confidence, phobias, relationship issues, trauma, meeting goals, behavioral concerns, stage of life changes, as well as many others. All while ensuring a safe, judgemental free environment. I am a Licensed Professional Counselor, I have a Master’s degree in Professional Counseling from Liberty University and have been working with children and adolescents for many years, as well as with adults of all ages. I also have my undergraduate in Development and Family Studies from the University of North Texas. I look forward to having the opportunity to help you become the best version of yourself.

While everyone’s reasons for coming to counseling are different, whether they’re going through a difficult stage, or a specific event like divorce, or just aren’t dealing with ongoing issues well. Sometimes, the assistance of counseling can not only help with specific situations, but with day to day concerns as well. Depression, anxiety, relationship issues, ADHD and even low-self esteem are often common reasons to seek out help. You may start out trying counseling to help with one area, and find on your journey that you gain so much more that can be utilized in many more areas of life. Counseling is a personal decision, but if you take a look at your life, and you want to make a change, it’s likely that some form of counseling could be helpful to you. There isn’t a single person alive who doesn’t experiences some sort of  challenges at some pointe in their life. Some people simply handle some of these challenges better than others, and even then, it’s never a bad idea to have additional support and understanding when it comes to the obstacles you’ve gone through.

There is nothing more important in counseling  than confidentiality. As with any doctor/patient agreement, your privacy is of the utmost importance. Openness and vulnerability are key to the counseling process, and a  client-counselor relationship built on trust opens the door to that. The electronic intake form includes a confidentiality agreement, called an “informed consent” that will specify with whom we may disclose information. Some people choose to have other individuals such as their healthcare providers, legal representatives or specific family members informed of their ongoing treatment.  However, you can choose to keep everything we discuss confidential. If you do want specific information shared an additional consent will need to be signed for each individual. Nothing you share in your sessions will be told to anyone else, with the exceptions of suspected abuse of any kind (including child and elder protection), if we have any reason to believe you may hurt yourself or others or if a judge subpoenas’ records for a case. These situations are a matter of ethical procedures, and sometimes, even the law.