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Good Doctor
Behavioral
Services, LLC
204 Lowe Ave SE #5 Huntsville, AL 35801
About GDBS
What is Life Coaching?
Navigating life's obstacles can be challenging. Life Coaching is service where clients have a safe place to grow, learn, and achieve goals that meet their unique needs.
Everyone, regardless of their background, has the ability to achieve their full potential. People may feel hurt, overwhelmed with daily struggles. As such. Life Coaching, generally deals with everyday issues and not with Mental Health Illness nor diagnoses.
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However, Life Coaching creates a space so that persons can manage their-being and solve conflicts that may be making their daily life difficult.
Life Coaching explores answers to attain goals, problem-solve, and encounter solutions to commonplace problems.
What is Mental Health Counseling?
Counseling, could, indeed, involve matters of everyday problems. But Counseling, generally involves serious issues, a clinical assessment, mental illness diagnosis, treatment planning and treatment goals development along with a discharge.
As such, counseling could involve the clinical practice of a Licensed Mental Health practitioner that has completed a graduate degree, practice, residency, and or clinical supervised hours with patients (or clients).
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Consequently, Counseling incurs exploration of topics such as abuse, trauma, mental illness, substance abuse/dependency among other clinically significant problems.
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The practice of Counseling may also include cognitive, behavioral, and emotional problems/illnesses that impact the person's level of functioning.
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*Counseling services are solely available for Washington State residents only.
Meet your teammate!
Dr. Sharlaine Ortiz, Ph.D.
Dr. Ortiz earned her Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Clinical Psychology with a Forensic Psychology specialization.
Dr. Ortiz is a combat veteran of the US Army with service in Operation Enduring Freedom.
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She is also a published author in topics of behavioral sciences.
As a Certified Life Coach, Dr. Ortiz centers her work towards client goal attainment and problem-solving efforts.
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She is also licensed counselor in Washington state. Her interests include Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Anxiety Disorders (AD), and underrepresented groups. Other interests include Personality, Cognitive issues.
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*Counseling services are solely available for Washington State residents only.
