Welcome to Restore Grace Counseling!
My super power is HOTMESSES restoration. I am tenacious to find the root of a thing. Psychotherapy is not just identifying your problems, it is creating a safe place, at an intentional pace to coax your shame and your pain via aTrauma-Informed process to engage in letting go of the negative aspects and healing the broken parts in a season of growth and wholeness. The healing comes in the letting go of all those layers which no longer server your purposes. Think of trauma like a hail storm and the shingles get damaged so your house could leak. They all gotta go down to the wood and then you can put on the new ones the color, style, or decor that fits you and the climate you live in. Take pictures with your mind. See a thing, say a thing, put those intentions into action and learn what worked and what did not. Before we let go we talk and walk through your process of what no longer serves you, but also understand the difficulty. We can use a coping skill for decades and we need a new muscle memory tool. That which you are replacing the past with needs to be automatic in order to serve you every time you use it. Perfect practice makes perfect music. Patiently together, we work so you can imagine all the steps you need to do a thing, before you do it. Finally, you let go and you just do a thing.
Psychotherapy is about finding your hope, your purpose and who you desire to become in your future as you let go of negative identity structures. Authenticity means you get to come as you are and do hard work and your therapist guides it. We all come in a HOTMESS, it is how we are treated as we heal that matters. It is time to allow your integrity to heal, to create, to find and accept safety on all fronts, to step into theraputic trustworthiness, Choice, Collaboraiton and Empowerment. I create the enviroment to nurish your theraputic relationship.
If your eating to cope with past trauma, or controling persons, or striving for cultural thinness, then maybe you need to name and tame that eating disorder. My clients learn to make peace with their plates their bodies, their mindsets. I am here to honor you for just showing up. Just getting an appt is hard work. It is hard to heal from an eating disorder but you can. And you don’t have to do it alone. Let’s learn some new skills to make walking through the challenged less distressful. I believe you can live with great intentionality in relationships, eat intuitively and process the pain that is living rent-free in your head. Yup, I help my clients move from distress, depression, trauma, terror, PTSD, panic, bipolar, roller coasters to that of relationships to peace and inner wholeness. Let’s work together to find your destiny that resonates with your core.
For those who have an eating disorder and need couples therapy, do not loose heart. There is hope, stay in the game. Learn to ask those difficult questions. it takes courage to seek help, to reach for wholeness. “Unprocessed pain tweaks behavior Kathryn Rheem- from theEFTCafe.com” I work with those who struggle with trauma, anxiety, depression and eating disorders. I am interested in the deep healing in the brain and the mind that is revealed in the body. I love to be a catalyst. To watch you experience that light switch go on and those aha moments. In your time, the negative memories of the past can be disarmed. I enjoy working with adults and families. Put on your curiosity hat, create an open space, find acceptance, and let’s shed light on a new path to a better future. I would be honored to explore the barriers, to happiness, you may be facing.
At Restore Grace Counseling I concentrate on the issues that trigger your anxiety, depression, binging, meal fasting and mindless eating. One example is creating a timeline for reduction of trauma memories so you sleep, focus at work, end meal skipping guilt laden restricting, deterring a cycle of binge-purging, and compulsive body image distress. I work with eating disorders 12 yrs. and up. Thus, this often includes trauma, mood disoders, addictions and couples counseling. I start where you are and explore what it is that makes you feel stuck In disordered eating. I like to say I deal with eating disorders “ed,” a guest who came without an invitation a guest who needs to find it’s path to purpose. Eating disorder “ED” needs a new job. It is time for a realignment and a reordering of tasks professionally, and personally. I utilize several models and look for what resonates with your your specific type of disordered eating. Psychotherapy is an alphabet soup of the letters I use are CBT, CPT, DBT, EFT, IFS, EDIT: Eating Disorder Intuitive Therapy, AF-EMDR = Attachment-Focused Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, as well as, HAES (Health at every size) conceptualizations. There may be a co-occurring mood disorder, addictive behaviors or trauma that needs to be addressed in addition to “ed.” Say good-bye to being stuck.
CORE ATTACHMENT: Meaningful research points to the need to understand your core attachment style as a key to healing. The best modalities are grounded in attachment as a core factor to the healing couple puzzle. Do you find you are searching for greater attachment? Let me help you consider a new alignment of your past, present, and future. Let’s work together toward your healing communication, connectedness and passion. One cord ties all three into balance. Find your balance.
Every generation has an essence that defines them. “Psalm 78: 4 tells us we should tell “the coming generation the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might, and the wonders that he has done.” If you live a life of integrity your actions speak louder than words. You matter, You are important, You are beautiful and I do not mean genetics. God made you special. Some people shine with such inner beauty that the rest of us are in awe….and they don’t even know that about themselves. Is that your story?
In order to determine if I am the best therapist to meet your needs, I offer a free 15-20 minute consultation. If you are seeking therapy for a teen I we all meet on free telehealth consult to see if I am a good fit for all’all.
Gena Hepworth MSW, LCSW
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I invite you to step off the diet roller coaster and consider healing approaches. Eating Disorder’s have many names Anorexia, Bulimia, Binge Eating Disorder, night time feeding disorder or ARFID; Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake disorder. Together let’s find a therapeutic “best fit”. Let me help you find a way to healing for you.