Meet Your Therapist

Hello, I am Lottie! 

Welcome! During our time together, I aim to create a space of genuine understanding, warmth and trust.  Exploring your unique strengths and creating an environment that fosters courage and recovery.  Within treatment you can learn skills to quiet the mind, ease your internal alarm, and gain a sense of control over the memories. Move beyond maladaptive patterns, impulsivity, reactivity and hijacked emotions into effective coping mechanisms which support you in finding freedom from your inner critic, toxic thoughts, and self sabotaging behaviors. Together we examine how your experience of the world has shaped your reality and your relationship with yourself, in order to help you develop a life of joy, stability, and fulfillment!  

Qualifications and Background:

Onto the “nitty-gritty”...….. for those interested in a closer look;

-20 years of professional experience.

-Attended University of Michigan, MSW Graduate School and graduated with High honors/Magna cum laude.   Northern Michigan University, BSW Undergraduate degree. 

Diverse experience;

* Toledo Children’s Hospital- Trauma Unit. (Intensive trauma cases: Murder, Violent rape, Gang Violence, Child abductions.)  

*Professional Outreach Counseling Services in Detroit, MI., (Children suffering severe abuse and neglect). 

*Partial Hospitalization Psychiatric Program in Flint, MI. (Adults-PTSD, Complex Trauma)

*Community Mental Health in Marquette, MI. (Adults-PTSD, Complex Trauma). Emergency Room-Psychiatric Consults.

*US Department of Veterans Affairs-Vet Center program.  (Combat Veterans- War trauma/PTSD/Moral Injury) 

I have served on numerous community partnerships, collaboratives and committees in an effort to further address trauma needs and provide education to the public.

Guest Lecturer at Northern Michigan University in Graduate and Undergraduate programs offering clinical expertise.

-Specialized in the treatment of trauma; including combat trauma, chronic trauma, complex trauma and interpersonal trauma.  I have worked with children, women, men, couples, family systems, groups, didactic formats and with combat Veterans.

Specialized Evidenced Based Practice Trauma Training:                

EMDR Certified--Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing.

CPT Certified--Cognitive Processing Therapy.

PE Trained--Prolonged Exposure.

TREM Trained.--Trauma Recovery and Empowerment.

Now offering BIOFEEDBACK for enhanced recovery and greater capacity to learn nervous system & physiological regulation. 

Enhanced Training

Specialization in Anxiety Treatment/Exposure Therapy

Providing evidenced-based treatment interventions and exposure therapy for anxiety disorders including:

Panic Disorder / Anxiety Attacks

Phobias 

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Social Anxiety 

General Anxiety Disorder

*Certified Clinical Anxiety Treatment Professional (CCATP)*

ERP- Exposure and Response Prevention.  

CBT- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.

Somatic therapies- which are “body centered therapy that explores connection of the mind and body for holistic healing”  Somatic therapy focuses on the disruption trauma can inflict on the Autonomic Nervous System.

*Registered Yoga Teacher* 

-Warriors at Ease (Trauma certification)

-iRest Yoga Nidra (Meditation/Mindfulness)

 CBT-I- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia.

 IRT-  Image Rehearsal Therapy for Sleep/Nightmares.

 MI-    Motivational Interviewing.

 DBT- Dialectical Behavioral Therapy.

 ACT.- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

 IFS-  Internal Family Systems

Couples Therapy

Gottman Method- Level 1 & 2 Training 

Professional Certifications:

Licensed Master of Social Work (LMSW)

Certified Advanced Alcohol and Drug Counselor (CAADC)  

Certified Clinical Anxiety Treatment Professional (CCATP)