Adina has experience with individuals, families, teens and children, including those living with a variety of disabilities and mental health and one-time/recent or ongoing life challenges.  In her quest to find the most effective tools for helping people grow and change, she has found success (and fun!) in utilizing creative modalities including art (especially painting and drawing), somatic resources, physical movement (walking, tapping and EMDR) along with sand tray and play therapy tools.  She also has experience serving people in varying stages of their faith journey and is able to bring Judeo-Christian principles to the counseling process. 

 

Adina finds it her privilege to empathically walk alongside people as they seek to find purpose, rest and joy in the hard parts of life, and believes that therapy is most effective when a therapist and client work together to leverage existing strengths with new tools and resources.

 

Areas of ongoing study and interest include:

• HSP/SPS (Persons with the trait of high sensitivity/sensory processing sensitivity SPS)

• Advanced interventions for individuals or groups who have experienced a recent  traumatic event, ongoing stressors, or vicarious trauma (ASSYST, EMDR-PRECI, EMDR-IGTP and G-REP protocols)

• International/intercultural field work

 

Areas of focus: Teens, families, children, emerging adults, EMDR, HSP/SPS, vicarious trauma, unresolved grief, family trauma, sexual trauma, and life transitions

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Licensure: PA Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)

Education: Masters of Social Work, Grambling State University

Office Locations: Green Tree (South) and McCandless Crossing (North)