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Healing happens when we attend to our attachment wounds, address the needs of our inner parts, and adopt healthy communication patterns and boundaries.
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Merna ElSols, LMFT, RPT™

Merna is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist and a Registered Play Therapist™. She earned her Master’s degree in Marriage & Family Therapy from Lipscomb University. Merna uses a person-centered, integrative, and systemic approach to help individuals and families increase their emotional expression and enhance their communication styles. She believes that the answers to many of the struggles we go through in life come from within us and that, through effective communication and emotional disclosure, we can build stronger relationships to endure the hardships we encounter in life. Merna is a TraumaPlay Certified Therapist, a Certified PCIT Therapist, a Prepare/Enrich Facilitator, and a QPR Gatekeeper Instructor. Merna is also trained and continues to seek training in EMDR (Levels 1 & 2), Brainspotting (Levels 1 & 2), Theraplay™ (Levels 1 & 2), Group Theraplay™, Digital Play Therapy, Prepare/Enrich, The Gottman Method (Levels 1 & 2), and Restoration Therapy (Level 1).
Merna ElSols, LMFT, RPT™
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist

Services

  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Trauma
  • Abuse Survivors
  • Adoption
  • Attachment Issues
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Bullying
  • Child or Adolescent
  • College Mental Health
  • Communication Issues
  • Cultural and Systemic Oppression
  • Disruptive Mood Dysregulation (DMDD)
  • Dissociation
  • Divorce
  • Domestic Violence
  • Grief
  • Marital and Premarital
  • Mood Disorders
  • Multicultural Concerns
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Parenting
  • Self Esteem
  • Suicidal Ideation

Approaches

  • Attachment-Based
  • Brainspotting
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
  • Dialectical (DBT)
  • Emotionally Focused
  • Experiential Therapy
  • Expressive Arts
  • Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR)
  • Family Systems
  • Gottman Method
  • Group Therapy
  • Internal Family Systems (IFS)
  • Parent-Child Interaction (PCIT)
  • Play Therapy
  • Solution Focused Brief (SFBT)

Fees

  • 50-Minute Session: $150

Location

Ohana Counseling LLC

5115 Maryland Way OFC 128
Brentwood, TN 37027-1200

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