Barbara Jean Sorensen LCMHCA, CHt, MHt

Thank you for choosing me as your counselor. I promise to do my best in ensuring a safe environment where you can openly discuss your experiences, thoughts, concerns, and feelings. I strive to provide a positive therapeutic setting for all my clients, based on the pillars of person-centered counseling: unconditional positive regard, empathy, and genuineness. 

EDUCATION 

I earned a Masters in Mental Health Counseling from Capella University in 2017. My theoretical framework is Existential Theory, which highlights the universal truths of being human--death, isolation, freedom, and emptiness-or conversely, the search for meaning. I earned a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Connecticut in Human Development & Family Relations in 1985. I have specific training in Person-Centered counseling approaches, motivational interviewing, crisis intervention, and Transpersonal approaches which encompass a person’s spiritual beliefs and experience. I am educated, trained and certified by Atlantic University of Va. Beach, Va. to practice professional Clinical Hypnosis as well as Transpersonal Regression Hypnotherapy, including Live Between Lives Spiritual Regression.

 LICENSES/CERTIFICATIONS/PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS 

● North Carolina Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Associate, #A15141 

● Certified Clinical Hypnosis Practitioner/Certified Transpersonal Regression Hypnotherapist/Certified Past Life Regression Hypnotherapist; Certified Life Between Lives Hypnotherapist 

● Certified HealingTouch Practitioner 

POPULATIONS SERVED 

I have experience and enjoy working with a wide variety of people from children to elders, with different backgrounds and experiences in this life, with diagnoses ranging from adjustment disorder, depression, anxiety, to severe and persistent mental illness, developmental disabilities, substance abuse/addiction and dual diagnoses, to name a few. My recent work as a mobile crisis responder has offered many opportunities to interact with a variety of people in different environments; I have also worked with youth in the community and in schools focusing on conflict resolution and communication education. I have worked with horses and humans of all ages for therapy and education. I have been using counseling techniques and interventions for more than 8 years in various professional roles, and now as a private practice therapist. 

DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES OFFERED 

I provide individual therapy in private practice. I use a variety of approaches to meet the needs of my clients; the approaches are evidence-based--meaning they have been clinically shown to have positive outcomes with effective changes for the individual in treatment. My focus is on the client’s stated intention and goal in therapy, and I will incorporate clinical therapeutic hypnosis interventions as appropriate with clients. Hypnotherapy is experienced as a powerful method to access the wisdom and knowledge available to us all and is found beneath/beyond the conscious mind. The therapeutic relationship is a safe place to explore issues and learn new ways of thinking and acting to be more in line with our true desires in life. In order to maximize the benefits of counseling, I will often ask clients to complete homework assignments including practicing new skills. Progress is achieved with collaboration between you and me, commitment to and trust in the counseling process, and our positive therapeutic relationship.