Meredith T. Whelan, LCSW, SC - Psychotherapist
phone: 608-255-9330 x 7
e-mail: Meredith_Whelan@yahoo.com

Commitment: I have been honored to work with people on healing, transformation, growth, and change for over 17 years. I believe that “in all things there is a hidden wholeness.” Symptoms and distressing patterns of behavior are often, at their core, attempts at wholeness. I begin therapy from this premise and work to identify and strengthen your internal and external resources to support the healing and change you want to make. Through my experience, I trust that people can be amazingly resilient even when facing great pain.

Work with adults, couple, and teens:
- Overcome depression and anxiety
- Heal from childhood sexual, physical, emotional abuse
- Recover from trauma
- Respond to medical or life-threatening diagnoses
- Recover from eating disorders and body image issues
- Strengthen self-esteem
- Improve communication skills
- Develop positive ways to care for yourself
- Understand past patterns of behavior and relationships in order to make more conscious choices in the present
- Develop greater resilience
- Integrate your sense of identity, purpose, and values into you life choices to feel more fulfilled

I use a broad range of tools to help resolve past trauma including EMDR (Eye-movement Desensitization and Re-processing). I work with both understanding patterns of behavior to make more conscious choices in the present as well as focusing on managing the current distress and moving forward. I incorporate mind, body, emotion, and spirit into the healing process.

Telephone Coaching:
- Improve life balance
- Navigate job/career changes
- Be your most successful and effective self
- Begin and complete creative projects
- Overcome procrastination
- Enjoy life cycle stages (parenting young children or teens, launching young adults, renewing your commitments to yourself and your life partner, moving toward new careers, retirement.)
- Clergy coaching to support your ministry and life balance
- College student coaching to maximize success
- For more information, visit my coaching website at www.coachforthejourney.com.

Consultation Services
Customized assistance for churches experiencing:
- Conflict
- Loss of members
- Change
- Growing pains

Service:
- Co-author of Psyche and Spirit, an e-zine focusing on clergy self-care and the psychological aspects of ministry.
- Past member of Rape Crisis Center, Board of Directors
- Active participant Big Brothers/Big Sisters
- Returned Peace Corps Volunteer

Credentials:
- Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker
- MSW, Smith College School for Social Work, Northampton, MA
- EMDR, level II certified
- Member National Association of Social Workers