Experience Change with CORE Treatment Services
Heather Gregan, LPC, CCTP
Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Clinical Trauma Professional
Here to Guide You
About CORE Treatment
We as therapists all have our brand...what makes us a fit or not a fit for our clients.
My brand is that I am a therapeutic Coach and a Healer with a lot of experience in mental health and addictions. I work with individuals, couples and families and I use multiple modalities to help my clients achieve their goals. Whether you are a parent of a teen needing guidance, an adult looking to find a path of healing or a bridge back to a loved one, I am here to help you navigate that process.
Life has taught me that no matter what is happening outside of ourselves, we can always access a way to be free.
As a therapist in mental health for over 20 years, I have developed skills, tools, education and most importantly life experience to support my clients in their coaching and healing journey.
I dedicated several years to the study of emotions and how to work with the intelligence of our bodies to meet our own needs.
I am experienced in working with adolescents, young adults, women and men in trauma and addictions at an individual and family level.
My passion is to create support through the healing process and to empower clients to take charge of their own mental health journey.
I use the tools that I teach and stay committed to the mastery of the interventions that I offer, living the intention of being a healer in healing.
My Approach
Together, we sit down to talk about what is important to you. Based on that, I help you to increase self-awareness through body-mind exercises, teach you emotion regulation and emotion-focused skills to maintain management of your internal system while increasing your capacity to leverage those skills to live more masterfully in your life.
I also help you better understand yourself in terms of your thought patterns and routines through cognitive-behavioral strategies and I help you to attend to energies that might be affecting you, outside of your conscious awareness through the use of Hypnosis, EMDR, somatic therapies and intuitive healing tools.
Whether your symptoms be from stored or stuck thoughts or emotions that keep you repeating unwanted patterns and perpetuating imbalances in your life, or even energies of others and the invisible world around you, I help you heal and clear what is connected with those symptoms so that you flow through your day with more inner peace, and motivation, no matter what is happening in your life...and since we are aiming to work with the CORE of who you are, I help you know yourself, your strengths and your challenges so that you can help yourself to realize your highest potential, no matter what you have been through or doubts you might have.
I believe in a tailored treatment plan that fits for you and helps you look at elements of life that might be included in your goals such as, nutrition, exercise, medical specialists, supplements, meditation, support groups and complementary healing modalities. I see symptoms as important pieces of information that help us see what needs to heal. I am here to help you listen to those symptoms and to be flexible with you in exploring what works for you to decrease feelings of distress and keep you encouraged to stay open to trying new things.
I like to coach clients to know that they can cope, change and heal through the use of multiple modalities and part of the reward of the therapeutic process is to engage in that thoughtfully and collaboratively.
Emotions are the Gift of Life
Healing is about meeting those emotions and unleashing the Life inside of You!
Services
Explore a range of services tailored to meet your needs.
Emotion-focused Coaching and Therapy, Process-Experiential Chair Work, Somatic body-based work, Hypnosis, EMDR and DBT Skills to support your Healing
Parent support, Adolescent and Family treatment, I am here to guide you on your healing journey.
Safety in the Body Skills It is critical for clients to be able to feel safe in the body before and while processing any emotional content. This service is designed to start you in the most appropriate place to experience success in therapy. There are multiple ways that we can work to establish safety and we work together to find the skills that are best suited for you.
Emotion Regulation This refers to the ability to be able to change the intensity of what one is feeling in the moment, or to be able to change the emotion in the moment altogether. This service draws upon regulation skills from DBT, emotional distancing skills from EFT, and resourcing skills from EMDR and somatic therapies to offer clients a strong set of options to master this ability in order to be able to manage one's goals and maintain stability in the process of healing.
Reprocessing Interventions There are many ways to address past experiences that are affecting our current functioning and we can draw on bilateral stimulation, emotion focusing, chair work, somatic integration, even hypnosis to process the internal experience of those events that have created pain or blocks in life. The goal, no matter the intervention, is to move us from a state of disempowerment to a state of agency. Some of us are more cognitive, others are more emotionally based and still others are more body based and energetically sensitive. The interventions are chosen with those differences in mind to help you access an experience of empowerment through healing the past. The ability to access safety and regulation skills is a precursor to exploring any of these interventions.
Reiki Healing and other CORE Modalities Sometimes we feel that we have reprocessed our traumas, and mastered our emotion regulation skills but something still feels out of alignment. This offering provides a point of exploration for you around energy healing. Reiki is being recognized as an effective complementary therapeutic tool for healing in both mental health and medical settings. It can be offered virtually or in person as a support to any level of healing - whether it be to assist in body safety and regulation or to access and alleviate stored energy from unprocessed or already processed emotions that need extra support to clear. Click here if you want to explore the potential of energy healing as well as other modalities that offer support for clearing, emotional balancing and alignment.
Adolescent Treatment When treating adolescents it's doubly critical to provide safety and authenticity. When a teen comes into the therapeutic process they are often guarded and savvy. They want to know whether they can trust their therapist and whether that therapist will "get them". This involves a lot more than offering skills and although skills development may be a part of the process it is best delivered in an organic nondirective fashion. Confidentiality, openness about what needs to be shared with caregivers for safety needs to be clearly communicated and documented. An adolescent's access to a safe, confidential space in which they feel understood, validated and respected offers the foundation for them to develop the emotional regulation skills that allow them to thrive.
Parent Support Although adolescents have a legal right to confidentiality it is my priority to help my client communicate with their parent what their needs are for this stage of their development. In a nondetailed fashion and with client's written permission I may provide general insight, skills, and recommendations for scaffolding and accountability to parents who are looking for more hands on support to help their teen.
Family Treatment Whether adolescent or young adult, the stage of moving from being dependent to autonomous is wrought with a tug of war around our psychological need for independence. I provide an emotion-focused, family-based approach to helping families communicate their emotions and needs in a safe and productive manner. Through this process we accomplish communication around expectations, disagreements, resentments, unhealed wounds as well negotiations for present-focused solutions.
Group Offerings One of the great joys of working with the change process is experiencing each other in a group dynamic. The alchemy of a group is so special and has the power for deep transformation. Groups are scheduled based on interest. I am presently offering the opportunity to create a Young Women's Virtual Process Group as well as A Summer Teen Coaching Program. See link for details and inquire below.