April Tully, LCSW

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TREATING ADULTS, OLDER ADOLESCENTS, INDIVIDUALS, COUPLES, & FAMILIES

Life is often difficult for all of us, regardless of our circumstances. My intention as a mental health professional is to enable those who consult with me to acquire the necessary abilities to navigate their personal journey to the destination of their choosing. The well-known expression "life on life's terms" can be on your terms also with the right understanding and assistance.

I do this by helping you to identify and discard self-limiting beliefs to transform the negative emotions and fears that may be holding you back, whether you realize it or not. I draw upon a combination of cognitive and dialectical behavioral therapies, as well as psychodynamic and sensorimotor insights, to address challenges and develop solutions in a multidimensional way, since we are multidimensional beings …leading complicated existences.

I am convinced that everyone has the capacity to heal their traumatic wounds given the proper guidance and support. In my role as therapist, I take a collaborative stance, offering clients the benefit of my over 20 years of experience and expertise to aid them in honing their inner resources and resilience to overcome the obstacles that they feel prevent them from attaining their goals. 

My appointments are at least a full hour so clients have enough time to review the struggles they have faced and the progress they have made in order to co-create with me some new strategies for the future. A typical therapy session might include mindfulness exercises and/or breathwork for grounding, or homework assignments for the purpose of gaining and reinforcing important skills, all of which engage as many levels of functioning as possible to maximize results.

While I am trained in a variety of evidence-based therapeutic modalities, I never proceed in a cookie-cutter fashion to make the client "fit" the technique. Instead, I use my knowledge as the foundation from which together we will design the best plan of action to meet the needs of anyone who enters treatment with me, whether as individuals, couples, or families.

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For me, Therapy is an art rooted in science so the interventions must therefore be as unique as those I am privileged to serve.