Certified Youth Specialist in Adolescent Trauma, Addiction Recovery, & Identity Affirmation

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Growing up in the modern world is an intense, high-stakes experience. If your teen or young adult is struggling, you know how quickly the pressure can turn into a crisis. It shows up as severe trauma responses, explosive emotional dysregulation, or a dangerous turn toward substance use and compulsive behaviors just to numb the pain. For young people navigating the complexities of identity exploration—particularly within the LGBTQIA+ community—the layer of social and internal friction can make survival feel completely overwhelming.

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When a young person's future is actively on the line, traditional talk therapy that just scratches the surface isn't enough. Your family doesn't need a passive listener. You need a dedicated youth strategist.

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As a Certified Youth Mental Health Specialist and Certified Addiction Counselor, I specialize exclusively in stepping into the complex, high-pressure world of adolescents and young adults. I provide an elite, highly active clinical container designed to help young people process deep trauma at the root, break free from self-destructive behavioral patterns, and claim an unshakeable sense of self-worth.

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Advanced Behavioral Strategy for Lasting Transformation

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My clinical approach is humanistic, fast-moving, and heavily grounded in gold-standard trauma and behavioral frameworks (DBT, CBT, and Trauma-Focused CBT). I do not reduce your child to a diagnosis or a checklist of problems; I analyze the entire architecture of their stress response to build a concrete blueprint for recovery.

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We work together to target the most critical pillars of youth healing:

• Root-Cause Trauma Resolution (TF-CBT): Processing complex and acute trauma exposures so that past wounds stop dictating present reflexes.

• Discreet Substance & Addiction Recovery: Confronting substance use and compulsive coping mechanisms head-on, treating the underlying pain driving the dependency while building bulletproof emotional insight.

• Radically Affirming Identity Exploration: Providing an elite, deeply knowledgeable, and safe space for LGBTQIA+ and questioning youth to navigate minority stress, family fractures, and authentic self-discovery.

• Emotional Regulation & Distress Tolerance: Equipping young people with concrete DBT toolkits to survive intense emotional waves without resorting to self-sabotage.

 

Your child doesn't have to navigate the darkness alone, and neither do you. Together, we will bridge the gap between crisis and a confident, resilient future.

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Pre-licensed Counselor.

(she/her/hers)

Supervised by Dr. Jennifer Jordan, Ed.D., LPC, CPCS