My passion is helping to co-create a healing place for you as you seek to reclaim or make new progress in your life. We develop habits, coping skills, emotional scar tissue, and social-psychological abilities as we move through life.
Sometimes, how we have learned to adapt to our lives makes us fulfilled and content. Other times, because of inflicted trauma wounds, genetic pre-dispositions, stages of life, relationships, family issues, or work situations—our results of trying to cope lead to depression, anxiety, relationship problems, and unhealthy coping.
In therapy, I first work to establish a safe, healthy and relaxed space that you feel comfortable being vulnerable in. I bring non-judgmental, positive, compassionate energy to our client-counselor relationship. Over 90% of clients who begin therapy with me return to complete their therapy work to their satisfaction. The national average is just over 50% who return for a second session.. The single best predictor of positive outcome in therapy is the client-counselor relationship, called the therapeutic alliance.
I work with clients from diverse backgrounds, and enthusiastically welcome clients who have different ethnic and cultural traditions, LGBTQIA clients, faith-positive clients and clients who are physically disabled and suffer from chronic pain and chronic illness.
With 20+ years of private practice experience and also as a faculty member in higher education, my clients also include other therapists, psychologists, medical field professionals, higher education faculty and staff, business professionals, and other high visibility persons working on the frontlines of providing care, and those who are often the face of their organizations or professional teams/athletes.
All good things,
Tammi
Tammi Imel, MA, LMHC
Owner, Lighted Pathways Therapy & Consulting
