At Restore Balance, our clinicians all have backgrounds in inpatient and partial hospitalization levels of care. As providers who are seasoned in assessing and managing risk, it is our goal to stop cycles of institutionalization and empower our clients to take control of their life. Clients can expect their therapist to work with them in managing intrusive thoughts, improving self-care, building resilience to stressors, and re-organizing priorities in life to reflect client values. To learn more about the modalities we use click below.

Our clinicians believe trauma is a universal phenomenon that affects all human beings. We define trauma as a distressing event relative to a person’s experience that disrupts the nervous system causing a fight, flight, or freeze response. We believe all traumas are “big traumas” and validate all emotions. 

In trauma therapy, you can expect your therapist to aid you in learning to self-regulate overwhelming feelings and reconnecting to numbed emotions. Your therapist will also utilize elements of exposure therapy to decrease your reactivity to triggering stimuli and increase your “window of tolerance” to previously emotion-evoking material. Clients will also be encouraged to find meaning and purpose in their healing journey. To learn more about trauma treatment, and the types of therapy we practice learn more.

All of our clinicians work with queer, transgender, and gender-expansive clients, and our approach is supportive and affirming. Clients can expect each of our clinicians to create a brave space, whether that be to explore identity, begin transitioning, navigate coming out, or more. Click below to learn more.

At Restore Balance, we recognize that the requirement to obtain letters makes medically necessary and life-saving interventions inaccessible and costly. Because of these beliefs, we strive to create a space where letters are easily acquired and low-cost. Two of our clinicians, Liz & Carrie, are committed to providing free or low-cost letters for HRT and gender-affirming surgery. Both Liz & Carrie have signed the Gender Affirming Letter Access Project (https://thegalap.org/) provider pledge.

Carrie Gensler and Kristen Faircloth provide clinical supervision for associate professional counselors and LMSWs. Carrie and Kristen have knowledge in all aspects of the mental health field from inpatient, to private practice. To learn more about their supervisions styles check out the learn more button.