Services designed to support all aspects of you.
Oak Grove Counseling offers a holistic approach to therapy, creating a cohesive, unique therapy experience- just for you.
Proven Methods
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Special Interests
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Solution Focused
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Deep-Dives
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Judgement-Free
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Proven Methods ✳︎ Special Interests ✳︎ Solution Focused ✳︎ Deep-Dives ✳︎ Judgement-Free ✳︎
Very Young Children & Families
Therapy for children ages 3-5. Life, and big feelings, happen fast during early childhood. Develop an empowered, capable stance to your child’s safe point in any storm. Help them by honing your skills.
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We will combine creativity, play, and connectedness with developmental psychology and parenting skills to help small children build confidence, a sense of safety, and return to playfulness after tough times, and during them. This, in turn, will help your entire family’s quality of life. Family and parent sessions put you at the center of your child’s healing.
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Sleep problems
Separation anxiety
Trauma
Fearfulness
Big feelings and tantrums
Struggles with listening
Attachment/bonding issues
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Play Therapy
Parenting support (including Parent Management Training and Filial Play Therapy)
EMDR
Solution Focused Therapy
Narrative Therapy
Mindfulness
Children & Teens
Curiosity, independence, and understanding can help your child balance the pressures of school, friends, relationships, gifts, and passions, while they grow into the healthiest versions of themselves.
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We will combine creativity, playfulness, reflective conversation, and age-appropriate communication, regulation, executive function, and social skills tools to support children and teens in developing their identities, values, and hopes for the future. Family therapy is used when indicated to help families and kids grow together, not apart.
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School stress
Social Anxiety
Perfectionism
Neurodiversity’s challenges
Sleep problems
Trauma
Anxiety
Rumination
Family changes
Attachment/relationship issues
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
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Solution Focused Therapy
Narrative Therapy
Neurodiversity affirming DBT
Radically open DBT
Play Therapy
Parenting support (including Parent Management Training and Filial Play Therapy)
EMDR
Somatic therapies
Exposure and Response Prevention Therapy
Exposure Therapy
Adults
Learning about life and yourself doesn’t stop when you reach adulthood. Having a place to consider your past, present, and future hopes can help you learn, and apply, change to create the life you want to live.
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Therapy should be customized to the way your brain works, your learning styles, and with your goals in mind. We match your self-expertise and hope for a different future with my therapeutic knowledge and work creatively, and collaboratively to help you reach your goals.
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Adults with difficult childhoods
Anxiety
Trauma
The impact of chronic pain & illness
Self-Doubt
Ruminating
Relationships
Life transitions
Family changes
Attachment issues
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
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Solution Focused Therapy
Narrative Therapy
EMDR
Somatic therapies
Neurodiversity affirming DBT
Radically open DBT
Parts-work
Exposure and Response Prevention Therapy
Exposure Therapy
Group Therapy
Group therapy is a place to learn, process, and be heard by people who share your concerns and hopes. It’s a place to be challenged in a caring way, and to build community. That’s why, for some experiences, group therapy can have even more benefit than individual therapy.
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Groups are kept small enough that you won’t feel lost in the crowd, but large enough that you won’t always be in the spotlight. It’s a place where you can listen and learn from the experiences of others and my knowledge as a therapist, or offer your own insights or challenges for reflection. This is a confidential, caring community.
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Parenting kid with ADHD
Parents who have ADHD, parenting children ADHD
I can offer, by arrangement, verbal or EMDR processing groups for people after traumatic events. Please enquire for more information.
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Solution Focused Therapy
Narrative Therapy
Psychoeduation
Neurodiversity affirming DBT
Filial Therapy
Parent Management Training
EMDR (for EMDR-specific groups)
Family Therapy
As families age, roles and jobs change, and energy levels shift, family members need to learn to come together in new ways. Sometimes this is through learning to hear one another’s past experiences; sometimes this is through collaborating to turn an imagined future into reality. Family therapy offers support and a container for important conversations.
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After assessing individual family members for their interest and readiness for family therapy, we will meet to identify mutually agreeable treatment goals. Sessions are centered on doing conversations and behaviors differently- we are actively creating something new, together.
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Caregiver burnout
Enmeshment
Family changes
Healthy independence
Maintaining loving connection
Communication
Trauma
Neurodiversity's function within the family system
Understanding challenging pasts
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Parenting challenges
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Solution Focused Therapy
Narrative Therapy
Somatic therapies
Neurodiversity affirming DBT
Radically open DBT
Parts-work
EMDR Treatment for trauma, anxiety, and pain
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is an evidence-based treatment for trauma, anxiety, pain, and stressful memories that addresses that gap between “logically I know I’m OK” and “but my body does not feel OK.” EMDR helps your nervous system access good experiences and features in your life, which means you also learn to be kinder to yourself in the process. Learn more here.
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EMDR is for anyone who notices they are quickly overwhelmed by fearfulness, difficult memories, or negative thinking. It is for people who feel stuck and know that they need more than traditional talk therapy to heal. EMDR can be provided to adults and children. EMDR can be especially helpful for clients with ADHD, Autistic clients, and gifted clients, clients. with strong visual memories, and clients with strong physical/body reactions to memories. EMDR allows clients to access many different aspects and layers of memory at once and the structure is focused on your brain and thinking and can be easily adapted for use with varying sensory needs.
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Anxiety
Trauma and C-PTSD
Domestic Violence memories
Stress responses
Nightmares
Difficulty relaxing
Negative self-talk, low self-confidence
Fast breathing, blushing, nervous sweating
Ruminating thoughts
Negative outlook on life
Unhappiness in relationships
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Feeling stuck
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EMDR is safe in most cases and can be stopped at any time the client wants. The client has complete control.
EMDR is not indicated for clients engaged in legal proceedings related to specific memories, because it changes the vividness of the memory.
Some medical conditions will require a doctor’s note to engage with EMDR.
Intensives: 1 hour+
Sometimes, you might need to meet for more than one hour to get what you need from therapy. This might be due to personal preference, neurodiversity, or the therapy modality we are using in session. Longer sessions are offered for all modalities on a weekly basis. EMDR intensives are offered for multiple days within one week.
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Timing is everything. Do do really important, hard work, especially around trauma, we sometimes need to invest time in establishing safety before we can make additional headway in therapy. This can help improve outcomes and reduce the likelihood of the dreaded ‘therapy hangover’ when we are working through big topics, events, and physiological responses.
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Trauma
C-PTSD
Burnout
Anxiety
Relationships
Neurodiversity
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Solution Focused Therapy
Narrative Therapy
EMDR
Parts-work
Somatic therapies
For Everyone: The Resource Library
A constant work in progress, currently under major construction. The resource library offers reflections, ideas, concepts and resources to support you in your mental health journey. Topics include neurodiversity, trauma, anxiety, and sensory challenges. Resources are for the general public and clinicians, but do not take the place of therapy with a licensed therapist or clinical consultation or supervision.
Somatic therapies for trauma, anxiety, overwhelm, fatigue, and pain
Integrating somatic therapies in therapy sessions allows clients to be with the stories of their lives in new ways. When we tell and think about stories in new ways, our body and nervous system get to experience the past differently, allowing our body to find rest and relaxation within ourselves. Even if the rest of the world is chaos, we deserve to feel safe and peace in our own bodies. Somatic Experiencing is the cornerstone of this work.
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Somatic therapies can be used with anyone! Somatic practices are a great way to discover new coping skills, and better yet, get to a place where coping skills and distractions are not needed to manage challenges and every day life. Somatic Experiencing is safe, gentle, and paced on a client’s individual capacity on a given day. It always starts with finding a place to rest, in your body or the environment around you.
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Trauma & C-PTSD
Complicated/traumatic grief
Depression
Anxiety
Relationship dissatisfaction
People pleasing
Healthy boundaries
Trust
Self-esteem and self-kindness
Negative world view
Feeling the need to constantly be doing things
Sleep problems
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Somatic therapy does not mean yoga (in this case, though others do provide yoga therapy!)
We use movement sometimes, but not always.
Touch is not currently a part of my Somatic therapies offerings.