About Kim
I want to walk alongside you and your family as you experience and adjust to transitions in your life. I hope to help you feel more balanced in your identity as together we build a solid foundation of love, care, and kindness for yourself that can help positively impact the relationships that are most important to you. I currently specialize working with families, women, children, and adolescents.
On Families and Children:
Children have an emotional language that is expressed through play, imagination, and intuition. I would love to journey with your child and family to explore and joyfully experience your emotional worlds together. I believe that enriching your family system through attachment based therapy can help alleviate challenging behaviors you might be experiencing with your child and create transformational change within your family.
Additionally, you as a parent need time and space to process emotions and care for yourself. Together we can explore what makes you uniquely you as a whole, and enrich areas of your life where you feel ready to grow.
I have been a licensed music therapist since 2006 and have engaged with children and families from all over the world in the hospital setting. This experience has helped me bring creativity and an experiential spirit to my practice as a marriage and family therapist. I offer family and individual counseling, music therapy, and integrate play into our work.
Fee Scale:
$100 for a 50 minute session
$125 for a 75 minute session
$150 for a 90 minute session
*Please note a 50 minute session is not a sufficient amount of time for couples and family sessions.*
Education:
B.S. Music Therapy--Saint Mary of-the-Woods College, December 2006
M.A. Marriage and Family Therapy--Christian Theological Seminary, December 2018
Certifications:
Gottman Level 1, 2017
Restoration Therapy Level 1, 2017
Neurologic Music Therapy Level 1, 2008
Kimberly O'Connell receives direct supervision under Jacqueline Braeger, Ph.D. (License #: 35001317A), and site supervision with Laurie Budlong-Morse, LMFT (License #: 35001974A).
- Michael O'Connell, LMFTLicensed Marriage and Family TherapistPastoral Associate - Holy Spirit Parish at Geist
I have a passion to journey with individuals and couples as they seek to restore love and trust in their life and relationships.
I specialize in working with couples struggling with communication, intimacy (including sex), life transitions and conflict (including infidelity, addiction, abuse, trauma).
I also work with men who may be experiencing anxiety, depression, life transitions, paternity and relationship struggles.
All clients (individual and couple) will come to understand their behavioral responses caused by our internal experiences of pain, what we refer to as our pain cycle. We will then map out new opportunities for personal responsibility and predictability, referred to as our peace cycle, and seek together how to practice and strengthen making decisions within our peace cycle instead of making decisions while coping with our pain cycle.
Education and Certifications
Education:
B.A. Theology & History - Marian University
M.A. Marriage and Family Therapy - Christian Theological Seminary
Certifications:
Restoration Family Therapy certification 1 - 2017
Gottman Family Systems certification 1 - 2015
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Michael O’Connell is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in the State of Indiana (License #: 35002087A).
Michael O’Connell receives supervision with Jacqueline Braeger, Ph.D. (License #: 35001317A).
