FIRST, let’s schedule your phone or in-person consultation by clicking on the link below (you may also text me at the number listed or email me at priscilla@therapywithpriscilla.com. Once we are scheduled to chat, I will send you a brief Consultation Questionnaire to fill out before our appointment. You can fill it out online and submit; it’s that easy!
On the day of our consultation, I will call you at the scheduled time. If we schedule an in-person consultation, we will meet at my office at the scheduled time. During our chat, I can get an understanding of what has brought you to counseling. We will also use this time to determine together if we are a good fit. If we are, we will schedule your initial appointment. If not, I will provide you with referrals I think will better suit your needs.
Once we’ve scheduled your initial appointment, you will receive an email to set up your personalized access to the client portal. Your time is valuable, so completing your intake paperwork at least 24 hours BEFORE our first session gives us more time, as opposed to sitting and filling out paperwork the first 20-30 minutes of our session. This ensures that we are making the most of our time together.
Our First Few Sessions:
We will go over all the paperwork, office policies, and informed consent forms. We will look at your past history to get the lay of the land, but will NOT stay stuck there. We will explore your best hopes, and create a meaningful preferred future description connected to your desired outcome. We will take a look at these areas of your life, too: Emotional Wellbeing, Community Support, Social Medicine, Pleasure, Relationships, Sleep, Movement/Exercise, Cognition/mindset, Stress Management, Nutrition and Nourishment,Personal and Professional Development.
We will also look at your strengths and the desires for your life. Together, we will paint a picture of the future you envision; the kind of meaningful life you want to live. As we work together, we will use this painting as a ROADMAP, to assess your PROGRESS, and polish your GOALS where needed to build your best self.
I may make recommendations for basic health, lifestyle, nutrition modifications, other health professionals, and encourage you to adapt positive behavior changes to help improve your overall mental health. I desire to help empower each woman I work with to own her healing journey and nourish her beyond the symptoms. I do NOT have a one size fits all approach, as each woman has her uniqueness. YOU ARE FEARFULLY AND WONDERFULLY MADE --- SET APART AND UNIQUE.
My Services Include:
Personalized Client Portal & Benefits
Secure Messaging Center: My clients have access to me by way of a secure, HIPAA compliant text messaging portal where they are able to message me outside of session. You do not have to wait an entire week until you see me again to ask me a question or share something with me you would like to focus on in our next session. The messaging center is not therapy, but a secure place to text me for general matters.
Session Follow-Up Summary Through Your Portal
I provide my clients with a Session Follow-Up Summary through their portal. I do not keep my progress notes a secrete. This way, you don’t have to try and remember everything. You can access your notes at any time. I will share your assessments by way of your secure client portal, too, and interpret them for you.
Building A Health Team Network
I help you build a professional health team to assist in your treatment with me if needed.
Food / Mood Analysis
After our initial session, I will send you a 3-Day Food Journal For Mood to complete during the week and bring back to your second session. It provides a 3-5-day window into food habits and patterns and how a client links mood and energy to food quality, quantity, and timing. It provides me with a quick visual of the client’s nutrition and helps to identify initial places to start the change process to help enhance better mental health and emotional health and overall wellness. This tool is essential for assessing the contribution of diet to a clients mood and behavior.
There is no doubt that nutrition matters and affects our mental health AND peri-menopausal and PMDD symptoms, as mood follows food. It can exacerbate mental health decline. As a Certified Mental Health Integrative Medicine Provider, this is a part of my work with each client. Changing thoughts, beliefs, and habits happen slowly in therapy; however, changing nutritional beliefs and behaviors is no different.