Hello, my name is Marie-Christine Greene. My focus is to help my clients get through life struggles, stressors ,or trauma,by providing a safe, judgment free, and relaxing environment where together we can work on identifying root causes and develop a treatment plan. My approach I implement Person Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavior Theory ( CBT),Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), strategies but mostly encourage clients to actively participate in setting goals and build on their strengths to make the desired changes to live their best life. My focus I provide services to individuals, couples, and families dealing with self esteem, anxiety,depression,trauma,grief,blended families, conflict I am Gottman Trained to help couples. As an immigrant myself, and being bi-lingual, bi-cultural and understand the issues affecting immigrants. My communication style I am empathetic, non judgmental and will try to empower my clients to actively participate in their journey of healing. Together we will engage in different activities,and practice strategies to achieve healing. My journey to therapy I became a therapist later on in life, after a 30 year career in the Educational system. First as a teacher, and later a school psychologist. I decided to return to school after gone to therapy myself and seeing how helpful and healing the experience was. I love working with others, and guiding others to identify their barriers, and heal past trauma, insecurities to be able to live a more peaceful and happier life. My goals for you I will engage my clients to collaborate on goal setting as much as possible to be able to feel a sense of ownership and power in their treatment. I will gage the pace towards healing according to where the client is. My first session with you The first session is about history gathering,but also making sure my clients feel comfortable, heard, respected and not judged.