Meet Arlene
Psychotherapist, hypnotherapist, counselor educator, and LPC supervisor are among the many roles I have held throughout my career. I have run a rehabilitation program, taught at the university level, supervised developing clinicians, and led state-level disaster counseling teams.
Today, my work is focused on helping people move beyond understanding toward meaningful change. I often work with trauma, addiction recovery, spiritual awakening, long-standing patterns, and problems whose deeper causes may be overlooked, misunderstood, or difficult to identify.
My clinical foundation includes Gestalt, Person-Centered, Solution-Focused, Schema, psychodynamic, trauma-informed, and hypnotherapy approaches, along with neuropsychology and other ways of understanding how experience becomes organized and maintained.
I do not work from a single model. I listen carefully to the person in front of me and draw from what may be most useful for that individual.
Intuitive Therapist
I have always been naturally intuitive, but I learned to trust and develop that part of myself over time.
During the years I practiced hypnotherapy intensively, I often worked in a deeply focused, almost meditative state while listening closely to clients and to my own internal responses. Over time, I became increasingly aware of intuitive information emerging alongside my clinical understanding.
At the same time, I spent many years in therapy with Dr. Abraham Szyller, who accompanied me through a lengthy spiritual awakening that opened my intuition much further. He encouraged me to bring those intuitive abilities into the therapy room and helped me become comfortable working with people whose experiences included spiritual or transpersonal dimensions.
Today, intuition is part of how I listen and work, but it does not stand apart from my clinical training. I am as interested in psychology, neuropsychology, trauma, learning, and the nervous system as I am in intuition, meaning, spirituality, and consciousness.
I do not experience those as competing ways of understanding a person.
I work with the whole person.
For many of us, our greatest achievement
is not measured by what we have accomplished
but by what we have overcome.
Dr. Magee, LPC (PhD)
Helping you cross the threshold from understanding to change.
Located in Mid City, Baton Rouge
Some Possibilities Are...
Create a Present with More Freedom and Choice
Access Deeper Resources for Change
Create More Meaningful Relationships
Explore and Integrate Spiritual Experience
Transform Your Relationship with Yourself
Experience Life in a More Integrated Way
How I Help
I am interested not only in what is happening, but in what has shaped it and what continues to organize it—past experiences, beliefs and schemas, patterns of learning and expectation, relationships, the ways the brain and nervous system have learned to respond, and the deeper organizing patterns through which you experience yourself and your life.
I bring two worlds together in the way I help you. I am classically trained, with extensive knowledge of psychological theory, neuropsychology, trauma, hypnotherapy, and decades of clinical experience. I am also deeply intuitive and comfortable working with spirituality, consciousness, meaning, and experiences that may not fit neatly within conventional psychological language.
I do not see those as competing ways of understanding you. I use both according to your needs and comfort.
My clinical knowledge helps me make sense of what I am seeing. My intuition often helps me notice connections, patterns, meanings, or something beneath what is being said before we have fully put it into words. I use that intuition actively, bring what I notice into the conversation, and check it with you.
You guide the direction. You do not have to know what kind of therapy you need before we begin. I listen, ask questions, notice patterns, look for what may be underneath what is happening, and keep thinking with you as we learn more.
I rarely only listen.
Sometimes we work primarily through conversation. At other times we may work with hypnotherapy, emotion, bodily responses, imagery, intuition, dreams, or spiritual experience—whatever may help us reach something that ordinary conversation alone has not.
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7732 Goodwood Boulevard, St. 102, Baton Rouge, LA 70806
Phone: 504.864.3232
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