Staff Counselor, Consultant to Athletics Department
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Licensed Psychological Associate in North Carolina
Education: Bachelor's of Art, Princeton University
Masters in Clinical Psychology, Appalachian State University
Internship: New River Behavioral Healthcare
Professional Interests / Areas of Expertise: Heidi has worked at the ASU Counseling Center in varying capacities since 2004 and comes from a background in community and school-based mental health, where she learned to appreciate working in integrated, interdisciplinary health services settings. Heidi works with a wide range of issues, including depression and suicide, trauma, anxiety, women’s issues, eating concerns, and relationship and attachment problems, and is particularly interested in the connection between mental health and nature. Heidi has a strong passion for working with underserved and marginalized populations and currently co-facilitates the Transgender Therapy Group at the Counseling Center. For the past 2.5 years, Heidi has served in a new role as the primary liaison between the Counseling Center and the Athletics Department, which she views as its own cultural entity.
Approach to counseling / Theoretical Orientation: Heidi has a holistic, collaborative approach to therapy. Her theoretical orientation is integrative, primarily drawing from humanistic, interpersonal process, and relational-cultural and feminist perspectives. Heidi frequently incorporates mindfulness, cognitive-behavioral, and dialectical behavioral techniques into her work. She has a strong belief in every person's capacity for growth and healing and views her role as therapist as creating an affirming, inclusive space to foster change and potential.
Personal Interests: Heidi cherishes spending time with her family and loved ones, especially going on outdoor adventures with her husband and two children. She is an avid runner, cyclist, and skier and takes any opportunity to get out in the mountains of the High Country. Heidi is also a keen traveler and especially enjoys experiencing different cultures. In her quieter moments, she enjoys yoga, reading, and gardening.
Staff Psychologist, Student-Athlete Services Coordinator
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Doctorate Program: Counseling Psychology - Sport and Performance track, Boston University
Doctoral Internship: Charles George VA Medical Center, Asheville N.C.
Professional Interests / Areas of Expertise: Jacob has specific training and experience in Sport and Performance Psychology and has worked with athletes at the college and professional level over the course of his career. Additionally, he has a strong interest in Military Psychology, having worked with military personnel prior to their deployments as well as veterans transitioning back to civilian life.
Approach to counseling / Theoretical Orientation: Jacob's approach is based within the integrative model and can best be described as client-centered, collaborative, and trauma-informed. To this end, he strives to consider the unique culture and lived experiences of each client, and draws from theory rooted in interpersonal and existential psychology. He values working from a strength-based perspective and deploys a variety of empirically-based therapy modalities, such as acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), and Motivational Interviewing (MI) to help clients reach their goals.
Personal Interests: Jacob enjoys training for, competing in, and watching any and all forms of athletics. He also enjoys cross-cultural travels, adventures in the wilderness, spending time with his wife and family, and strives to do at least one thing a day that scares him a little.
Staff Psychologist, Assessment Coordinator
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Doctorate Program: Clinical Psychology at East Tennessee State University
Doctoral Internship: Appalachian State University
Professional Interests / Areas of Expertise: Alison enjoys working with college students with a broad range of presenting concerns; however, her primary interest is working with students with eating concerns. Alison additionally enjoys providing supervision and training to graduate students who are interested in the available opportunities at CAPS.
Approach to counseling / Theoretical Orientation: Alison's approach to counseling comes from a highly person-centered and humanistic background. She utilizes a collaborative and integrative approach to therapy, meeting students where they are to help them be as successful as possible. She aspires to create a safe space for all students to explore their strengths and growth areas, while developing strategies to make positive changes in their lives. Dont be surprised if Harry Potter metaphors become a large part of our work together.
Personal Interests: Alison enjoys spending time with her husband and son, binge-watching Netflix series, drinking Starbucks coffee, reading, and sleeping in on weekends.
Referral Coordinator
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Bachelor's Degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Appalachian State University,
Masters in Social Work from Appalachian State University with a concentration in Individual/Family Counseling.
Professional Interests / Areas of Expertise: Scott likes to utilize "Strengths Based Perspective" to meet students where they are in their college journey, and assist them in connecting with community resources that will best meet their needs. In addition, he incorporates Cognitive-Behavioral therapy into his Individual Therapy practices when working with students.
Personal Interests: Scott enjoys anything outdoors, time with his family, video games, and traveling to new places.
Professional Interests / Areas of Expertise: Kate is a generalist by training, but she has a specialization in working with students who have experienced IPV and other types of trauma. She additionally has passion for working with students concerns related to interpersonal relationships, identity development, and adjustment for first-generation college students.
Approach to counseling / Theoretical Orientation: Kate’s theoretical orientation is rooted in relational-cultural, feminist, and multicultural modalities. She believes that clients are the experts of their own lives and works with students to help them to name their experiences as they go through the healing process. She often uses mindfulness and self-compassion techniques to help empower clients in their journey. Kate also enjoys incorporating creative expression into her work with clients as a way of processing experiences that are difficult to talk about verbally.
Personal Interests: Kate grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She comes from a multiracial family with diversity related to ability status and religious identification. Although she is from a city, Kate learned to love living the small-town life when she lived in the Shawnee National Forest in graduate school. In her free time, Kate loves hiking the trails of the Blue Ridge Mountains, spending time with friends, and knitting.
Director
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Licensed Psychologist in North Carolina
Doctorate Program: Counseling Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University
Doctoral Internship: Appalachian State University
Professional Interests / Areas of Expertise: Chris has a particular interest in the relationship between physical and mental health, men's issues, mindfulness, research in clinical settings, and program evaluation.
Approach to counseling / Theoretical Orientation: Chris is respectful of each individual and focuses on the development of the whole person. He integrates interpersonal and cognitive-behavioral therapy into his work with students, while also emphasizing a client-centered, mindfulness, and multicultural approach.
Personal Interests: In his spare time, Chris enjoys spending time with his family; sports and exercise, whether it be heading to the gym, hiking a trail, or watching a game on T.V.; traveling and exploring new places; and the challenges of learning how to do new home improvement projects.
Associate Director/Clinical Director/Coordinator of Emergency Services/Contract Staff Coordinator, Master's Training Coordinator
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Licensed Psychologist in North Carolina
Doctorate Program: Clinical Psychology, University of Denver
Doctoral Internship: Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Professional Interests / Areas of Expertise: Julie works with a wide variety of concerns, but has a particular passion for working with trauma, sexual assault, identity development, LGBTQ issues, and emotion regulation difficulties. She has a strong interest in and passion for helping individuals explore their intersecting identities and the ways in which they move through the systems in place in the community and in the world. In addition to this, she also enjoys group therapy, supervision, and training.
Approach to counseling / Theoretical Orientation: Julie’s approach to working with clients is collaborative and integrative. Her approach is multicultural, trauma-informed, rooted in interpersonal therapy, and draws from existential, mindfulness-based, and Dialectical Behavioral therapy (DBT) modalities. She values the unique nature of each individual, as well as their values, goals, and strengths.
Personal Interests: In her free time, Julie enjoys spending time with her friends and family, cooking, reading good books, and watching puppy videos on YouTube.
Staff Psychologist, Outreach Coordinator, Co-coordinator of Mental Health Ambassadors
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Doctorate Program: Clinical Psychology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Doctoral Internship: Appalachian State University
Professional Interests / Areas of Expertise: Emily has trained in university counseling centers and a rural community mental health center. She has also worked as an advisor for students on academic probation and been involved with the campus group Active Minds. In addition to providing individual therapy, Emily enjoys group therapy and campus outreach and prevention. She is also particularly interested in working with first generation college students, academic and career concerns, phobias, self-harm, grief and loss, suicide prevention, issues of social justice, and reducing stigma around seeking mental health care.
Approach to counseling / Theoretical Orientation: Emily's approach to counseling is collaborative, emphasizing the therapeutic relationship and students' goals and strengths. She primarily integrates principles of interpersonal, cognitive-behavioral, mindfulness-based, and dialectical behavior therapies.
Personal Interests: In her free time, Emily enjoys spending time with loved ones, traveling, creative writing, cooking, biking, drinking tea, and watching British TV.
Associate Director/Director of Training/Co-Coordinator of Mental Health Ambassadors
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Licensed Psychologist in North Carolina
Doctorate Program: Counseling Psychology, Auburn University
Doctoral Internship: University of Hawaii at Manoa
Professional Interests / Areas of Expertise: Leslie’s areas of interest include the training and supervision of new and emerging professionals. She also enjoys career counseling, working with non-traditional students, and helping students who are navigating identity-related and developmental concerns. Leslie is passionate about prevention and outreach efforts, and loves working with the Appalachian State Mental Health Ambassadors, a program she co-created and co-coordinates with Dr. Denise Lovin.
Approach to counseling / Theoretical Orientation: Leslie’s approach to working with clients is collaborative, and she prefers a holistic integrative approach to treatment that incorporates cognitive-behavioral, interpersonal, existential, and client-centered techniques. Leslie recognizes that there is no “one size fits all” approach to therapy and tries to tailor her interventions to each client’s unique needs and preferences. The value of authenticity is appreciated and modeled in Leslie’s therapy sessions.
Personal Interests: Leslie’s interests and hobbies include playing pranks on her co-workers, spending time with her family, enjoying the outdoors, armchair traveling, magic, and robots. Okay, she’s not really into magic and robots, but she does love to read five books at once, listen to good music, and spend money on shoes.
Staff Psychologist
Doctorate Program: La Salle University
Doctoral Internship: Immaculata Consortium: Belmont Behavioral Hospital Outpatient Program
Professional Interests / Areas of Expertise: Matt has experience working in inpatient psychiatric hospitals, community mental health clinics, and college counseling centers and has worked with most varieties of psychological distress and illness. He has particular interests in mindfulness-based interventions and psychosis, but believes that all varieties of psychological distress inform aspects of the human experience.
Approach to counseling / Theoretical Orientation: Initially, Matt focuses on building understanding and appreciation of others’ experience, and drawing out the processes which contribute to distress. After mutually acceptable consensus is reached, he will likely encourage informed and relevant experimentations in self-awareness practices, daily habits, and styles of interaction. Matt’s primary training is in cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness-oriented treatment approaches, and is informed by a variety of perspectives, including evolutionary, psychodynamic, existential and transpersonal.
Personal Interests: Matt enjoys spending time with friends, absurdity and nonsense, creating and performing music, team-oriented video games, learning, exercise, and cooking.
Staff Counselor, Groups Coordinator
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Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor in North Carolina, Registered Expressive Arts Therapist
Graduate Program: Master in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Graduate Certificate in Expressive Arts Therapy, Appalachian State University
Masters Internship: Counseling & Psychological Services Center, Appalachian State University
Professional Interests / Areas of Expertise: Audrey is a generalist by training, and as such enjoys working with students with a broad variety of presenting concerns. These commonly include anxiety, depression, relationship issues, trauma, grief, and eating concerns. Special areas of interest include group therapy, campus outreach, connecting with traditionally under-served student populations, and the therapeutic use of art for healing and self-expression.
Approach to counseling / Theoretical Orientation: Audrey uses an integrative, person-centered approach to therapy that draws on mindfulness, interpersonal processing, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and expressive arts therapy. She strives to incorporate a multicultural perspective into her work, acknowledging and valuing the many identities that shape her clients' unique experiences in the world. She places great importance on authenticity, support, challenge, and even humor in her sessions.
Personal Interests: In her free time she enjoys gardening, crafting, the occasional Netflix binge, and hiking with her dog, Margo.
Registered Therapy Dog
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"Margo is a registered therapy dog with the Alliance of Therapy Dogs and is also an American Kennel Club Canine Good Citizen. (What's the difference between a therapy animal, service animal, and emotional support animal?) She accompanies her mom and therapy partner, Audrey, to some individual therapy sessions and outreach events for the Counseling Center. She is a rescue dog and is believed to be an Australian Shepherd/Catahoula Leopard dog mix. Margo's interests include treats, belly rubs, and hiking. Feel free to say hello if you see her around campus!"
Gayatri Titus, Ph.D.
Staff Counselor, Coordinator of Multicultural Services
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Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in North Carolina
Doctorate Program: Marriage and Family Therapy, Texas Tech University
Doctoral Internship: Family Therapy Clinic, Texas Tech University; Department of Family Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
Post-doctoral Fellowship: Marriage and Family Therapy with an emphasis in Primary Care, Department of Family Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
Professional Interests / Areas of Expertise: Gayatri has training as a marriage and family therapist and also in the field of medical family therapy working with people from different cultural contexts and countries. Some of the areas of interest include multicultural sensitivity, mindfulness and meditation, dealing with health related issues, coping with stress, life transitions, cultural adjustment, grief and loss, self-care, emotional well-being, self-esteem, communication, relational issues and helping people achieve a better balance in life.
Approach to counseling / Theoretical Orientation: Gayatri is collaborative in her therapeutic approach and is interested in helping people discover and celebrate their uniqueness, gifts, and strengths so as to create more happiness and joy in their lives and relationships. She enjoys helping people figure out what their dreams are and how they can achieve them.
Personal Interests: Gayatri enjoys learning about new cultures and their cuisines, traveling, baking, writing, gardening, listening to music, reading, meditating, and painting.
Staff Psychologist, Coordinator of Eating Concerns Treatment Team
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Licensed Psychologist in North Carolina
Doctorate Program: Clinical Psychology, University of Indianapolis
Doctoral Internship: University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Student Counseling Center
Professional Interests / Areas of Expertise: Ashley comes to ASU with a background in health psychology and has trained in university counseling, hopsital settings, and community mental health. She is especially passionate about work with trans* students, queer-identified students, students of color, and students struggling with other issues of marginalization. Ashley has specialized training in the treatment of eating disorders and coordinates the interdisciplinary Eating Concerns Treatment Team for the Counseling Center.
Approach to counseling / Theoretical Orientation: Ashley takes a holistic approach to treatment, but above all, believes that change begins with the client-therapist relationship. Working from a Gestalt perspective within a multicultural framework, her therapy style is heavily relational with an emphasis on power dynamics and their impact on interpersonal process. She frequently incorporates experiential and body-focused interventions with techniques from cognitive-behavioral, dialectical behavioral, and emotion-focused therapies. Ashley strives to work collaboratively to facilitate holistic healing and well-living for all of her clients.
Personal Interests: Ashley's favorite place to be is outdoors with her husband and daughter- especially if it involves hiking or camping. To quench her creative side, she also loves baking, gardening, and woodworking. Her favorite pastime, however, is teaming up with her daughter to raise swallowtail butterflies in their backyard.
Office Manager
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Personal Interests: As a native of Florida, Dawn enjoys camping, boating, kayaking, and reading a good book. She loves spending time with her family. Dawn states that "I miss the beach and the feel of the sand between my toes."
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Undergraduate Program: Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education, History, Appalachian State University
Personal Interests: Among Sammy's interest are spending time with family and friends, learning new concepts, ideologies, and methodolgies in a number of fields, history, music (all forms), guitar, photography, art, reading, sports, television, and working with computers and various software programs. He enjoys doing research and the creative part of the writing process.
Doctoral Psychology Intern
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Doctorate Program: Clinical Psychology, Adler University
Professional Interests / Areas of Expertise: Logan has a particular interest in working with people struggling with identity and phase of life difficulties. He has experience working with a broad range of concerns including trauma, depression, anxiety, life adjustment, relationship concerns, and identity development. He enjoys teaching and engaging in his own mindfulness practices. Logan is passionate about working with marginalized populations, athletic performance, and gender expression.
Approach to counseling / Theoretical Orientation: Logan places an emphasis on helping clients recognize and explore problematic patterns in their lives. He aims to build a trusting and warm alliance that can foster understanding and self-awareness. Logan uses an integrative psychodynamic approach with an emphasis on understanding the environmental and interpersonal contexts that each person navigates. Logan consistently uses humor and supportive challenges in session to strengthen the therapeutic bond.
Personal Interests: Logan enjoys finding ways to be active, whether it is running, hiking, playing sports, or swimming. When he is not on the move, he usually has his face in a thriller novel or pondering ways to torment his coworkers with wordpuns and bad jokes. If it is a Sunday, you will likely find him in front of the TV cheering on his beloved Green Bay Packers.
Doctoral Psychology Intern
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Doctorate Program: Counseling Psychology, Springfield College
Master’s Program: Sport & Performance Psychology, University of Denver
Professional Interests / Areas of Expertise: Meghan has worked with a plethora of populations in both counseling and sport & performance psychology realms in Colorado, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and North Carolina. She has a passion for working with students who are experiencing mood-related concerns, eating concerns, trauma, identity exploration, and life transitions. Meghan also has a particular interest in the relationship between nutrition and mental health, as well as working with student-athletes in both counseling and performance domains.
Approach to Counseling / Theoretical Orientation: Meghan's therapeutic approach is integrative in nature, working from multicultural, person-centered, and interpersonal psychodynamic lenses. Meghan implements the use of evidence-based techniques, such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and trauma-informed models. She values honoring clients' unique intersecting identities and life experiences with an authentic, supportive, and empathetic presence.
Personal Interests: Outside of work, Meghan loves spending time with friends, family, & her partner, Edison, as well as maintaining a healthy lifestyle and reading up on the latest nutritional psychiatry (gut health & mental health) literature as part of her dissertation!
Doctoral Psychology Intern
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Doctorate Program: Counseling Psychology, Oklahoma State University
Masters Program: Masters in Counseling and Counselor Education, Indiana University Bloomington
Professional Interests / Areas of Expertise: Brooke enjoys working with college students with a variety of presenting concerns, but has specific training and/or experiences in domestic violence, grief and loss counseling, and working with student-athletes. Other interest areas include working with survivors of trauma, sexual assault, and those who have initiated violence against others and looking to grow and learn healthy relationship skills. She is especially passionate about group therapy, prevention, and outreach in efforts to decrease stigma around seeking help for mental health concerns. Brooke approaches therapy with a genuine desire to understand and connect to each person's unique story and work collaboratively to achieve clients' goals.
Approach to Counseling / Theoretical Orientation: Brooke's approach tailors to her client's wants and needs and is rooted in an integrative model that embodies client-centered, trauma-informed, interpersonal, feminist, and strengths-based work and sometimes pulls from empirically-based modalities, such as Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). Brooke approaches work with clients with an intersectional awareness and openness in order to honor cultural differences and uniqueness when tailoring clinical approaches.
Personal Interests: Brooke enjoys spending time with her husband and two dogs, playing sports and exercising outside, caring for and buying new plants, trying new recipes and improving cooking and baking skills, and almost anything DIY!
Adjunct Counselor
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Doctorate Program: Health Psychology, Northcentral University
Master’s Program: Master's in Christian Counseling, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
Professional Interests / Areas of Expertise: Territa has worked with multiple variations of presenting concerns and populations. Therrita enjoys working with individuals with transitional concerns, identity exploration, systemic issues, adjustment issues, multicultural, diversity, inclusion and equity, eating concerns in minority populations. Territa has expertise in working with trauma anxiety.
Approach to counseling / Theoretical Orientation: Territa's approach to counseling is rooted in Whole Person/Integrative care, driven by person-centered, Internal Family Systems, Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy and Experiential Models to counseling.
Personal Interests: Territa enjoys spending time with her husband and three young adult sons, reading academic and inspirational books, and trying new restaurants with close friends.
Adjunct Counselor
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Master’s Program: Clinical Mental Health Counseling with certificate in Systemic Multicultural Counseling, Appalachian State University
Professional Interests / Areas of Expertise: Although Blake enjoys and has experience in working with a variety of presenting concerns, he has particular interest in supporting students with LGBTQIA+, first-generation, or other marginalized identities. He also appreciates supporting students to develop self-compassion, connect to their values, increase awareness of the relationship between their experiences, thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, and process difficult experiences from the past.
Approach to counseling / Theoretical Orientation: At heart, Blake works from a person-centered perspective that is collaborative and relationship-based, values and strengths-focused, and social justice-oriented. Blake utilizes an integrative approach that is influenced by components of and includes skills from Person-Centered, Acceptance and Commitment, Dialectical Behavioral, Post-Modern, and Cognitive Behavioral therapies. Additionally, he works to include a lens that is trauma-informed and acknowledges the influence of systemic marginalization, intersectionality, and social injustices
Personal Interests: In his free time, Blake enjoys spending time with loved ones, going for walks and hikes, playing Nintendo video games, catching up on tv shows, listening to pop music, and reading.
Adjunct Counselor
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Masters Program: Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Post graduate Certificates in Addictions and Expressive Arts Therapy from Appalachian State University
Approach to Counseling / Theoretical Orientation: Beck's approach to counseling is steeped in person-centered cognitive behavior therapies. Areas of counseling focus include anxiety, addiction, depression, LGBTQI+, relationship, and trauma. I work collaboratively with clients using affirming and compassionate care and evidence based treatments to work with clients from an array of diverse backgrounds and cultures. These treatment modalities can include expressive arts therapy, nature psychotherapy, and mindfulness based stress reduction interventions.
Personal Interests: When not at ASU, Beck enjoys being outdoors with her dog. Often, her self-care practices include cooking, biking, art making, martial arts, volunteering in the community, and yoga. In addition to her counseling work, she is an award-winning and internationally published photographer and an accomplished marital artist. In his free time, Blake enjoys spending time with loved ones, going for walks and hikes, playing Nintendo video games, catching up on tv shows, listening to pop music, and reading.
Adjunct Counselor
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Doctorate Program: Counseling and Counselor Education, North Carolina State University
Master’s Program: Master in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Graduate Certificate in Expressive Arts Therapy, Appalachian State University
Undergraduate Program: Bachelor’s of Science in Psychology with a Concentration in Human Services, Appalachian State University
Professional Interests / Areas of Expertise: Damaris enjoys providing services for students with a variety of mental health concerns including depression, racial trauma, anxiety, body/image and eating concerns, grief/loss, and social justice issues. She is committed to working with students of color, LGBTQ+ students, first-generation students, and transfer students by fostering a safe space that instills empathy and compassion. Damaris is passionate about supporting students who are seeking personal change and growth, whether this is to find support while in the face of adversity or to delve into the therapeutic process that challenges self-exploration. Damaris' professional interest and research include multicultural counseling and incorporating social justice advocacy.
Approach to counseling / Theoretical Orientation: Damaris’ approach to counseling is collaborative and integrative. She is interested in cultivating change by implementing the therapy value of a non-judgmental and compassionate therapeutic relationship that enhances human resiliency. Her approach in counseling is rooted in Person-Centered and Relational Psychoanalytic therapy, and incorporates the values of social justice and multicultural competency to support clients’ goals in therapy. She also uses expressive arts, cognitive-behavioral, motivational interviewing, and mindfulness-based interventions.
Personal Interests: During her free time, Damaris enjoys spending time with friends and family, running and hiking outdoors, creating art, cooking new foods, spending quality time with her husband and cats, Gypsy and Tuna, and playing Nintendo video games on the weekends. She also enjoys reading books specifically on race, social justice and LGBTQ+ issues, and occasionally attends book clubs to discuss important highlights, themes and ideas that can be implemented to cultivate positive community through allyship, advocacy, and intentionally anti-racists practices.
Adjunct Counselor
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Master’s Program:Master in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Graduate Certificate in Addictions Counseling, Appalachian State University
Master’s Internship:Daymark Recovery Services: West Jefferson NC
Professional Interests / Areas of Expertise: Emily has a background in working in domestic violence shelters as well as community mental health. She is passionate about working with young adults with broad areas of concerns; including but not limited to anxiety, depression, OCD, eating concerns, trauma. She is a Licensed clinical addiction specialist; and is drawn to working with individuals ready to work on both their mental health as well as a substance use concerns.
Approach to counseling / Theoretical Orientation: Emily’s approach to counseling is holistic. She incorporates person-centered, CBT, and motivational- interviewing techniques to meet you where you are at. She strives to create an environment that best fits each individual person and what you need from her in that session. It is a team effort to find what best works for each person and she works to be understanding, compassionate, and authentic in her sessions.
Personal Interests: Emily enjoys spending time with her dog on the couch watching tv, reading books, and baking various different treats. She also enjoys drinking coffee or hot chocolate with friends.
The Counseling Center offers after-hours emergency coverage for urgent mental health concerns such as suicidal thoughts, sexual assault, and other trauma. Call the Counseling Center at (828)262-3180 and select the option to speak with the counselor on-call.
For additional resources see our Emergency Services page.
