Reinventing Hope Counseling

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Thriving Beyond Trauma: Empowering Individuals To Live Life To The Fullest

Defense mechanisms are unconscious ways our mind protects us from emotional pain, stress, or uncomfortable feelings. The...
10/29/2025

Defense mechanisms are unconscious ways our mind protects us from emotional pain, stress, or uncomfortable feelings. They often develop as survival strategies but over time, they can keep us stuck in old patterns if we’re not aware of them.

Whether it’s denial, projection, rationalization, or avoidance, these defenses once served a purpose. The goal isn’t to shame them, it’s to understand why they’re there. Awareness gives us the power to respond with intention rather than react out of habit.

In therapy, we help clients identify the defense mechanisms that might be standing between them and emotional healing. By bringing compassion and curiosity to these patterns, you can begin to create new ways of coping that support growth, authenticity, and peace.

At Reinventing Hope Counseling, we provide trauma-informed therapy for clients in Florida and Tennessee, helping you understand your mind’s patterns and reconnect with the parts of you that are ready to heal.
📍 Serving clients online in Florida & Tennessee
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Therapy isn’t just about talking. It’s about understanding how your mind and body work together to hold stress, trauma, ...
10/24/2025

Therapy isn’t just about talking. It’s about understanding how your mind and body work together to hold stress, trauma, and emotion. The somatic wheel reminds us that healing involves every part of you including your thoughts, sensations, breath, movement, and connection to self.

At Reinventing Hope Counseling, we use a mind-body, holistic approach to help you reconnect with your body’s natural wisdom in a safe, comfortable setting. Whether through somatic techniques, mindfulness, or trauma-informed tools like EMDR, we support you in releasing tension, increasing awareness, and finding balance from the inside out.

Healing isn’t just about processing the past. It’s about learning to feel grounded and at peace in your body again.
📍 Serving clients online throughout Florida & Tennessee
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You are allowed to be both...Healing isn’t about choosing between being proud of who you are and wanting to grow. You ca...
10/22/2025

You are allowed to be both...

Healing isn’t about choosing between being proud of who you are and wanting to grow. You can be both a masterpiece and a work in progress at the same time.

Many of our clients come to therapy believing they must be perfect before they can feel worthy of peace or love. But perfectionism is often a protective response, something we learned to keep us safe, accepted, or in control. Therapy helps you understand that protection while also learning to thrive beyond it.

Being human means embracing both your strength and your softness, your growth and your grace. You can be imperfect and still be enough.

At Reinventing Hope Counseling, we teach clients in Florida and Tennessee how to make peace with imperfection, release unrealistic standards, and recognize progress as a form of thriving. You deserve to feel whole right where you are.
📍 Serving clients online across Florida & Tennessee
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Worry and hope both live in the future but they lead us down very different paths.Worry imagines what could go wrong, ke...
10/11/2025

Worry and hope both live in the future but they lead us down very different paths.
Worry imagines what could go wrong, keeping us in fear, tension, and self-doubt.
Hope imagines what could go right, inviting calm, courage, and trust in your ability to handle what comes next.

When we’ve lived through trauma or uncertainty, worry can feel like protection. But learning to shift from worry to hope is part of healing and it helps regulate your nervous system and rebuilds safety within yourself.

At Reinventing Hope Counseling, we help clients in Florida and Tennessee learn to quiet worry, build emotional resilience, and reconnect with hope through trauma-informed, mind-body-based therapy.
📍 Serving clients online across Florida & Tennessee
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This quote hits hard because it’s true.Many people who deeply need therapy don’t seek it, but those who’ve been affected...
10/09/2025

This quote hits hard because it’s true.
Many people who deeply need therapy don’t seek it, but those who’ve been affected by their unhealed patterns often do.

When pain, trauma, or emotional wounds go unaddressed, they don’t disappear. They show up in relationships, communication, parenting, and how we treat ourselves and others. Cycles of harm and hurt repeat until someone chooses to break them.

That’s where healing begins. Therapy isn’t about blame, it’s about understanding. It helps you stop carrying what isn’t yours and start creating healthier ways of relating so that the pain ends with you.

At Reinventing Hope Counseling, we help clients across Florida and Tennessee recognize these cycles, heal attachment wounds, and build safer, more authentic relationships with themselves and others.
📍 Serving clients online across Florida & Tennessee
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Self-soothing is the ability to calm and comfort yourself when emotions feel overwhelming. It is a vital part of emotion...
10/04/2025

Self-soothing is the ability to calm and comfort yourself when emotions feel overwhelming. It is a vital part of emotional regulation and resilience. But for many, especially those who have experienced trauma, self-soothing can feel unfamiliar or even impossible.

Why?

Often, when trauma happens early in life, we may learn to rely on external soothing (approval, attention, or relationships) to regulate our nervous system. Over time, this reinforcement can prevent us from developing the skills to soothe ourselves. Instead, we may turn to overthinking, numbing, people-pleasing, or unhealthy coping strategies.

Learning to self-soothe changes everything. It helps you:

âś” Regulate your nervous system during stress or triggers
âś” Create space to respond, not react
âś” Build healthier relationships by not depending solely on others for emotional stability
âś” Strengthen trust in yourself and your inner resilience

At Reinventing Hope Counseling, we teach clients in Florida and Tennessee practical, body-based tools for self-soothing from breathwork and grounding practices to rewriting thought patterns rooted in trauma. Therapy is where you can learn to calm your nervous system, reconnect with safety, and build a foundation for lasting peace.

📍 Serving clients online across Florida & Tennessee
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Emotional intelligence (EQ) is your ability to understand, manage, and express emotions in healthy ways while also recog...
10/02/2025

Emotional intelligence (EQ) is your ability to understand, manage, and express emotions in healthy ways while also recognizing and responding to the emotions of others. It is not about “controlling” feelings, it is about being aware of them, using them as information, and responding with intention instead of reaction.

When strengthened, emotional intelligence can:
âś” Reduce anxiety and stress by helping you recognize triggers before they take over
âś” Improve relationships through healthier communication and deeper empathy
âś” Support trauma recovery by teaching your nervous system how to respond, not just react
âś” Build self-awareness so you can align your choices with your values, not past pain

In therapy, we help clients build these skills step by step. Through trauma-informed approaches, you learn how to pause, notice your emotions, and practice new strategies for connection with yourself and others.
At Reinventing Hope Counseling, we support clients in Florida and Tennessee as they heal old patterns, increase self-awareness, and create healthier, more emotionally safe relationships. Emotional intelligence is not just a skill, it is a pathway to peace, resilience, and thriving.

📍 Serving clients online across Florida & Tennessee
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✨ Monday Reminder: Good Things Take Time ✨Healing, growth, and change aren’t overnight fixes. They take patience, persis...
09/30/2025

✨ Monday Reminder: Good Things Take Time ✨

Healing, growth, and change aren’t overnight fixes. They take patience, persistence, and self-compassion along the way.

Some days you’ll feel progress. Other days may feel slower or heavier. Both are part of the process. What matters most is that you keep showing up for yourself, your goals, and your future.

Please don’t give up (and if you feel like it make sure to get support and someone in your corner). Because every small step forward is shaping something bigger than you can see right now.
At Reinventing Hope Counseling, we provide trauma-informed therapy for clients across Florida and Tennessee. Whether you’re navigating anxiety, depression, trauma recovery, or relationship struggles, we help you align with your values, break unhealthy patterns, and create lasting change. You deserve peace, and it’s possible.

📍 Online therapy for Florida & Tennessee
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Many people come into couples therapy thinking it will be all about conflict, pointing fingers, proving who’s right, or ...
09/26/2025

Many people come into couples therapy thinking it will be all about conflict, pointing fingers, proving who’s right, or hashing out past arguments.

But what you actually get is deeper than that. Couples therapy is about:
• Learning how to communicate in healthier ways
• Understanding each other’s needs and attachment styles
• Identifying patterns that keep you stuck
• Building trust, connection, and emotional safety

It’s not about “fixing” your partner, it’s about working together to strengthen your relationship and create a healthier foundation for the future.

At Reinventing Hope Counseling, we help couples across Florida and Tennessee break unhealthy cycles, navigate conflict with compassion, and grow in connection. Because every relationship deserves the chance to move from surviving to thriving.
📍 Serving clients online in Florida & Tennessee
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Healing isn’t about perfection. It’s about your nervous system rewiring itself from chaos back into safety. That process...
09/24/2025

Healing isn’t about perfection. It’s about your nervous system rewiring itself from chaos back into safety. That process can feel raw:

đź’§ Tears release grief your body has carried for years
🌑 Isolation comes from once needing protection from unsafe connections
⚡ Overthinking lingers because hypervigilance once kept you alive

And then one day… your breath slows down. You feel peace where there used to be chaos. You realize this version of you deserves rest, safety, and joy.

At Reinventing Hope Counseling, we support clients across Florida and Tennessee through the ups and downs of trauma recovery. Healing your nervous system takes time, compassion, and guidance but every step brings you closer to the peace you’ve always deserved.

Serving clients online in Florida & Tennessee
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Some days you bloom, feeling open, confident, and full of energy. Other days, you root, quietly grounding, resting, and ...
09/23/2025

Some days you bloom, feeling open, confident, and full of energy. Other days, you root, quietly grounding, resting, and strengthening beneath the surface.

Both are essential. Both are growth.

As you start this week, give yourself permission to honor where you are today. Whether it’s a blooming day or a rooting day, you are moving closer to the life and peace you deserve.
At Reinventing Hope Counseling, we help clients across Florida and Tennessee recognize their unique healing patterns, break unhealthy cycles, and create a foundation for lasting growth.

📍 Serving clients online in Florida & Tennessee
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Many of our clients share that they’ve always felt like they have to be “the strong one.” Maybe you’ve learned to carry ...
09/19/2025

Many of our clients share that they’ve always felt like they have to be “the strong one.” Maybe you’ve learned to carry the weight for others, to push through exhaustion, or to hide your true feelings.

But strength isn’t the only thing that defines you. You also deserve moments of joy, peace, and happiness without guilt. Healing means learning that it’s safe to put the armor down, to rest, and to feel cared for.

As the weekend begins, give yourself permission to do more than just “get through.” Take time to notice what brings you joy, to rest without shame, and to nurture the parts of you that need lightness and care.

At Reinventing Hope Counseling, we help clients across Florida and Tennessee unpack the patterns that keep them in survival mode and guide them toward lives that include not only resilience, but also rest, love, and fulfillment.

You don’t have to be strong all the time. You deserve to be happy too. 🌿

📍 Serving clients online in Florida & Tennessee
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Eatonville, FL

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Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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A Little About Me

I am a local Floridian, married, and have a wild little sh*tzu named Charlie. I love the outdoors and exploring new places and cultures (been to Ireland for a month and driving out west to California alone for six weeks). I am a big fan of the small, simple things in life because I think they make the biggest difference in our lives. My top hobbies are camping, watching sports, yoga, and live music.

Professionally, I am currently completing my master’s to become a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with a focus on Marriage, Family & Couples Counseling at Palm Beach Atlantic University. I have been exposed to a variety of individuals and fields from nonprofit companies to medical facilities. This has fueled my passion for the individual, leadership, and learning from different backgrounds, cultures, and experiences.

Now, I can’t wait to hear about YOU!