Counseling and therapy for women veterans
Summerville Women’s Mental Health Services (SWMHS) provides in-office and virtual/telehealth counseling/therapy for women veterans in South Carolina (SC).
To the LGBTQIA2S+ community, I love you and I stand with you.
While my private practice name is Summerville Women’s Mental Health Services, it includes multicultural counseling. It serves all women: cisgender, transgender, intersex, non-binary, and woman/feminine identified people - we welcome all ethnic, cultural, and racial communities.
I cannot promise what might come with this hostile administration, but I can promise that nothing will change on my part and I stand with you prepared and willing to do my part in ensuring your safety and services as best I can.
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Women’s Mental Health Center
Counseling, Therapy, and Clinical Supervision in South Carolina
Multicultural mental health services for all women: cisgender, transgender, intersex, non-binary, and woman/feminine identified. We welcome and serve all ethnic, cultural, and racial communities. We help clients heal from anxiety, depression, dysphoria, and trauma/stressors, teaching them coping skills, self-esteem, and healthy thinking to promote their healing and improve their well-being. We specialize in integrative mental health (IMH), a holistic approach to treating mental health that combines conventional and non-conventional therapies. We are uniquely qualified and culturally competent to work with the veteran community, the Latino/Hispanic/LatinX community, and the LGBTQIA2S+ community. We are bilingual (English/Spanish), military veteran, and LGBTQIA2S+ with lived experience. We serve all of South Carolina with both in-office and telehealth appointments.
Mental health services for women
We provide mental health services with one goal: to help diverse women with their healing and well-being journey toward good mental health.
The X-Studio: A Mental Health Cooperative
We help guide mental health practitioners, especially Licensed Professional Counselor-Associates (LPCAs), toward alternative options to pursue their path toward becoming independent counselors, therapists, and clinicians in a sustainable way that minimizes group practice politics and solo practice burnout and isolation. We are doing so by providing an alternative to the long-standing service models currently available in the mental health profession to clinicians and introducing this mental health cooperative model.
Women’s Mental Health Center
Summerville Women’s Mental Health Services is a Women’s Mental Health Center that provides Counseling, Therapy, and Clinical Supervision in South Carolina. We provide multicultural mental health services for all women: cisgender, transgender, non-binary, and woman/feminine identified. We welcome and serve all ethnic, cultural, and racial communities. We help clients heal from anxiety, depression, dysphoria, and trauma/stressors, teaching them coping skills, self-esteem, and healthy thinking to promote their healing and improve their well-being. We specialize in integrative mental health (IMH), a holistic approach to treating mental health that combines conventional and non-conventional therapies.
What is Paranoid Ideation?
Paranoid ideation is a transient, stress-related type of paranoia in which the person baselessly feels threatened, persecuted, or conspired against. Someone experiencing paranoid ideation might feel a general suspicion regarding the motives or intentions of others.
Paranoid ideation is a pattern of thinking characterized by persistent feelings of distrust and suspicion, even when there's no evidence to support those feelings. People with paranoid ideation may believe that others are treating them unfairly or trying to harm them.
Mental Health Healing and Well-being Center
Summerville Women’s Mental Health Services
Mental Health Healing and Well-being Center
We help diverse and multicultural women (cisgender, transgender, non-binary, and woman/feminine identified) living in South Carolina heal from anxiety, depression, gender dysphoria, and trauma/stressors teaching them coping skills, self-esteem, and healthy thinking so they can improve their well-being. We specialize in integrative and holistic women’s mental health counseling and therapy services.
Clinical supervision in South Carolina
Clinical Supervision for Licensed Professional Counselor Associates (LPC/A) in South Carolina available virtually or in person.
Complex posttraumatic stress disorder (c-PTSD)
Complex PTSD (or c-PTSD) is a form of the disorder that has several additional characteristics beyond those of standard PTSD. It typically develops after prolonged trauma, and it’s more common if someone experiences trauma repeatedly over an extended time. Children exposed to ongoing trauma, particularly if it’s caused by a caregiver, are especially vulnerable.
Tips to Reduce Anxiety
Different techniques can be used to help manage symptoms of anxiety at the moment. They can be used whether you’re anxiety is a result of something you are doing or if you have a diagnosed anxiety disorder. The following easy techniques and exercises can be done to help you calm down in the moment.
Summerville Women’s Mental Health Services is a private mental health practice
Summerville Women’s Mental Health Services is a private mental health practice in the heart of Historic Summerville, SC.
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) awareness
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) develops in some people who have experienced a shocking, scary, or dangerous event.
Clinical Depression is a disorder of the brain.
Clinical Depression is a disorder of the brain. It is a serious mental illness that is more than just a feeling of being "down in the dumps" or "blue" for a few days. For more than 20 million people in the United States who have depression, the feelings persist and can interfere with everyday life.
Counselors/therapists are NOT Life Coaches, Magicians, Psychics, or Physicians
We are clinical mental health professionals. Only we are credentialed to diagnose, treat, or cure mental health disorders and illnesses.
Anxiety: Symptoms, types, diagnosis, and treatment
Anxiety feels like a state of dread or worry. All of us experience this in small doses which is a normal stress response. It serves a purpose to help us find that extra push for an upcoming situation that can be stressful like a big exam or a wedding.
Mental Health Tip of the Week: Going No-Contact.
Going no-contact. Completely detach yourself from the person and the individual(s) they bring into your life who are toxic, negative, emotionally immature, and complicit in the harmful and disruptive drama.
Mental Health Care for Women Veterans
Mental Health Care for Women Veterans
I specialize in treating women veterans. I provide the most effective, personalized care for women veterans to address their unique mental health challenges and the best practices for treating them. Women veterans experience a higher rate of clinical depression and Post Traumatic Stress disorder (PTSD).