Jillian Breuninger (she/her)

I will be an active sound board for you to express your adolescent struggles- identity formation, sexuality exploration, risky behaviors, friendship "drama", parental discord, family conflict, perfectionism, procrastination, school stressors, etc. I will provide helpful problem-solving techniques and guide you to finding resolution and peace.

I will teach coping and calming strategies and techniques for you to use to calm your anxieties and worries. I will utilize techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to challenge, refocus, and reframe your anxious thoughts, and techniques from mindfulness and meditation to help calm your body and physiological self.

I will provide active listening and a non-judgmental sound board for you to express your recent struggles. Adjusting to a new stage of life - a new job or career, a new school, different friend group, divorce, death - can feel challenging and overwhelming. We will work through these feelings and explore where they are stemming from. I will utilize techniques from CBT and mindfulness and meditation to help you cope more effectively.

Individuals with depression and anxiety experience negative, unhelpful thinking. These thoughts greatly impact mood (how you feel), your actions/behaviors, and your relationships with others. I will use CBT to shift your negative/anxious/unhelpful thoughts to more positive useful thoughts. You will learn how to use a thought record to challenge, refocus, and reframe your negative thinking.

I embody a strengths-based approach incorporating techniques from mindfulness/meditation. I will teach techniques, such as, deep breathing, progressive muscle relaxation, grounding, EFT: tapping, guided imagery/visualization.

If you have struggles communicating with your family, friends, spouse, boyfriend/girlfriend, boss, teacher, neighbor, etc. you will benefit from learning nonviolent communication (NVC). NVC is being used around the world to aid in communication and to decrease conflict. NVC is composed of four parts: observations, feelings, needs, requests. When you focus on your own experience, the receiver hears the message without blame or criticism (and are less likely to become defensive).