MEET YOUR PSYCHOTHERAPIST

Kristen Ora, LMSW, CAADC, is a fully licensed clinical social worker with some doctoral training in clinical psychology with a concentration in neuro-science. Kristen has extensive professional experience assessing and treating adults, children and families. Kristen has a warm, kind, hopeful, non-judgmental and supportive style.  Kristen is committed to helping you feel safe, respected and connected so a self-paced healing journey may begin. 

In addition to Kristen Ora's clinical licensure, she also holds the following clinical certifications:

• Certified Advanced Alcohol and Drug Counselor

• Certified Addictions Informed Mental Health Professional

• Certified Dialectical Behavior Therapist

• Certified Binge Eating Disorder and Chronic Dieting Professional

• Certified Mental Health & Nutrition Clinical Specialist 

• Certified Grief Informed Therapist

•  Certified Specialist in Anger Management

•  Certified Shame-Informed Treatment Specialist

• Certified Clinical Trauma Professional: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Cognitive Behavioral Treatment (CBT) and Somatic-Based Interventions

Kristen will help you identify and use your own strengths, natural talents, personal interests and support system to develop and use wellness and coping skills. Wellness is an active ongoing process of cultivating self-awareness, using skills and making decisions that will help you become more resilient to life stress and to live a more balanced, healthy and fulfilling life.

Kristen supports and helps adults, children and families with the following:

SELF-DEVELOPMENT

• Assertiveness Training

• Distress Tolerance and Emotion Regulation Skills

• Forming Healthy Boundaries

• Life Transitions

• Personal Performance - Educational, Career and Sports Navigation and Support

• Strengthening Confidence, Esteem, Self-Respect, Self-Care and Self-Love

WELLNESS

• Strategies for Nutrition, Intuitive Eating and Physical Movement

• Stress Management Techniques

• Sleep Hygiene

• Meditation and Mindfulness Practices

• Spirituality Practices

MENTAL HEALTH CONDITIONS

• Advanced Mental Health Directives Planning

• Care Coordination Services

• Individual Education Planning

• 504 Planning

• Safety Planning

• Treatment for Anxiety Disorders, Attention-Deficit Hyper Activity Disorders, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Depressive Disorders, Eating Disorders, Learning Disorders, Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS

• Care Coordination Services

• Information and Referral to 12-Step Programs and Sponsors

• Skills to Counter Codependency Behaviors

• Treatment for Substance Use Disorders

PHYSICAL HEALTH CONDITIONS

• Care Coordination Services

• Coping Strategies for Chronic Illness and/or Pain

• Durable Power of Attorney Planning

• Intuitive Eating Strategies to Address Weight Gain and/or Obesity

WOMEN'S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH

• Coping with Women's Reproductive Health Issues - Infertility, Unexpected Pregnancy and Pregnancy Loss

RELATIONSHIPS

• Adoption

• Co-Parenting, Parallel Parenting and Blended Families Parenting

• Parenting a Child with a Mental Health and/or Physical Health Conditions

• Effective Assertive and Respectful Communication Skills

• Identifying Love Languages

• DNA Familial Discoveries and Potential Relationships

• Safely Exiting Unhealthy Relationships

GRIEF AND LOSS

• Education about Stages of Grief and Processing Grief

• End of Life Planning

• Healing Rituals

LGBTQ+

• Support and Advocacy for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning and Asexual Individuals

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