CLINICAL APPROACH

Evelyn Wright, LCSW, has extensive experience working with adults, adolescents and children with a range of emotional, psychological and relational issues. Given her multicultural background, she brings a sensitivity to cultural and ethnic aspects of clinical issues. She specializes in working with individuals who have experienced trauma and/or negative life experiences. With a strength-focused approach, she utilizes various methodologies allowing for her attunement to the client and a clinical approach tailored to individual needs. She works with clients to help them move past emotional distress and life challenges; transitioning from “victim” to “survivor” and on to “thriving”. To expand their horizons, she offers techniques such as meditation and mindfulness to accompany a renewal of self-awareness, self-acceptance and self-directed motivation.

Evelyn Wright is an EMDR Certified Therapist and Approved Consultant. In addition to providing EMDR therapy to clients and having served her colleagues on the Board of the EMDR International Association (EMDRIA), she seeks to increase public access to EMDR therapy through consultation with competently trained EMDR clinicians seeking certification and/or skills enhancement. Special consideration is given to clinicians serving special populations, i.e., child/adolescent focused practice and BIPOC communities. She is available for both individual and group consultations to EMDR-trained therapists seeking certification. She also provides Consultation-in-Consultation sessions for Consultants in Training (CITs) endeavoring to becomes EMDRIA approved consultants.

Evelyn Wright offers a child-centered therapeutic interventions to address the psychosocial stressors which most frequently manifest as anger management issues or in behavioral or academic changes in children and adolescent.  A number of theoretical approaches are applied within play therapy. Children are free to explore positive and negative feelings within the safety of the playroom and the non-directive approach of play therapy. Play allows the therapist to honor the child’s developmental level utilizing the child’s language of play. Specializing in trauma and critical incident stress, EMDR therapy is also utilized. Play therapy has been heavily researched and determined to be an effective mental health approach.

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