MIchele Medwin (She/her)

We grieve over loved ones that are no longer with us. This can be the most painful times of our lives. We also grieve over other losses included loss of health, loss of past special moments that will never come back, loss of friends due to distance, etc. Grief and loss is often confused with depression. Both often have deep sadness but the treatment is very different. The best way to heal from grief and loss is to identify and talk about the loss and its significance.

Michele works with people who have anxiety that interferes with their functioning or achieving the goals in their life. She provides tools to help lessen anxiety. She also works with IFS (Internal Family Systems) to work on the source of the anxiety to work towards healing wounded parts of the self.

The biggest challenge for couples is miscommunication or misunderstanding. Often one partner will assume what the other is thinking, or the reason behind something they did, when it may not be what the other partner is thinking at all. Through Couples Counseling, Michele can help couples learn how to truly listen to each other and how to communicate their needs in a non-threatening way that can be heard by their partner.

What we think, affects how we feel, which affects how we behave. By becoming aware of the thoughts behind our negative emotions, evaluating them, and learning new ways to look at things, we can help reduce anxiety to increase functioning and finding more joy in life.

We all have these basic traits that are inborn: Compassion, Creativity, Curiosity, Confidence, Calmness, Connectedness, Courage and Clarity. Events happen along the way, usually of a chronic nature when we are children that create parts of our selves that react to subtle emotional triggers without even realizing the triggers are present. IFS helps to heal those emotions wounds that occurred previously in one's life so that events no longer trigger them.