Mica is a certified trauma professional who uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and relaxation techniques to help empower people to recognize and communicate their emotions, worth, and needs. She works with adults, families, couples and adolescents.
Introduction
Mica is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) passionate about helping people and couples who think they are not worthy of love or respect, feel overwhelmed by their emotions, and want to learn to identify and communicate their needs to those around them. Mica works collaboratively with her clients to use strategies of relaxation to communicate emotions, boundaries, and needs. Additionally, a focus on healing the impacts of a toxic or traumatic childhood allows clients to approach situations in the present moment in a way that is more aligned with their own personal values. Mica’s certification as a trauma professional, training in Emotionally Focused Couples therapy, and a genuine sense of curiosity inspires her to listen wholeheartedly and to approach experiences with a focus on prioritizing relationships, connection, and empathy.
Current Focus & Interests
Mica specializes in working with adolescents, early and middle adulthood, those sixty-five and older, couples and families. She is a certified trauma professional that utilizes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy paired with relaxation and reconnection to one’s body to handle individual stressors that impact families and couples.
Mica utilizes evidence-based practices to process issues related to depression, anxiety, intimate and familial relationships, and childhood trauma. Being trained as a Tobacco Treatment Specialist and having experience allows her to help people successfully overcome barriers to losing weight, managing their diabetes, improving their sleep, and quitting smoking.
Experience
Mica has had several different experiences throughout her life, which have helped shape her into the therapist she is. Before graduate school, Mica had the opportunity to provide tutoring and mentorship to ages 14 to 18-year inner-city boys transitioning from juvenile detention back into the community. She then offered individual and group therapy to women who were survivors of sex trafficking. After graduate school, Mica moved to Indiana and became an individual and family therapist for Kindergarten to Sixth-grade children. During this time, she had the privilege to treat both children and their families to help create a more healing relationship.
In 2019, she moved back to Missouri and worked for Integrated Care at Ferrell Duncan Clinic. She worked with ages 5 to 99 and treated mental and behavioral health. During this time, she also attended the mayo clinic Tobacco Treatment Specialist Training, where she learned several effective strategies to help people quit and stay quit smoking. Her new career takes her to private practice, where she is excited to work alongside people from all walks of life on a healing journey.
Education
Mica graduated in 2010 with her Bachelor’s in Sociology from Missouri Southern State University in Joplin, Missouri. She volunteered in the AmeriCorps State and National program in Atlanta, Georgia, for two years. After working as a nanny and learning more about herself, Mica decided to pursue her Master’s in Social Work. She graduated in 2016 with her MSW from Kennesaw State University. After moving to Indiana, she received her LCSW in 2019. Mica is licensed in Missouri and Indiana. Since receiving her LCSW, Mica has participated in several learning opportunities to help treat both mental health and physical health issues.
