Vanessa Vaziri

Hi, I’m Vanessa, a clinical social worker who’s been working with teens, families, and adults for the past 11 years. After living in Wisconsin for 12 years, I now call Northern Colorado my home and am now seeing clients in Wisconsin via telehealth.

When working with me you can expect a blend of humor, compassion, and transparency. I’m less about holding you accountable and more about helping you take an honest look at what your best self is striving for. I love working with individual folks and families on issues related to adoption, befriending all the parts that make you “you”, setting boundaries, being a little bit kinder to yourself, finding freedom from past traumas and building a community where you can be yourself and find belonging. Sure, we’ll take a look at past experiences that shaped you, but we’ll also spend a good deal of time focused on the here and now, finding practical solutions to whatever woes you’re packing.

I pull from various evidence-based approaches including Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Internal Family Systems/Ego State Interventions, Inference-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (I-CBT), Multidimensional Family Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and a few others. I do my best to take an anti-capitalist and liberatory approach in my work and, given that I am a life-long learner, my approach is often evolving to fit the needs of my clients.

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