Jacey Hammel, PhD
Clinical Psychologist
About My Practice
My approach to psychotherapy is collaborative and integrative. In our initial session, I will ask what you are seeking through therapy and begin to ask about your history. At the end of the first session, I will provide you with recommendations for our work together. You and I will have the opportunity to reflect on these ideas. If both of us think it is a good fit, we will continue to build the therapeutic relationship and develop a plan for therapy.
Key components to my practice include engagement, meaning-making, understanding your values, and self-acceptance. My wish for you is to identify and embrace your strengths. I find that our strengths present us with our challenges, i.e., our challenges are inherent to our strengths. Thus, I will also help you to manage those challenges and foster your strengths.
- Emotions are a core part of my practice. Emotions are information about ourselves, our relationships, and our world. At times, emotions can be misinformation due to learning history and trauma. We will parse that out and you will gain the tools to discern the difference between useful and misdirected information. Goals might include distress tolerance, emotional acceptance, emotion regulation, assertiveness, and ultimately, self-acceptance. While we all have shame, it does not serve any of us. Finding that safe place in therapy and those safe people to hold it, affords us the space to let it go.
- Trauma may also be part of your story. When something traumatic occurs, your sense of self can shift dramatically. Trauma can also impact your relationships with others and your worldview. The direction of therapy will be to process and deconstruct these views and to build systems that better serve you and the future chapters of your life.
- This brings me to another matter: Grief. To lose a loved one is profound, even when you are at peace with their death. You might also struggle in other ways when the history of the relationship was strained or estranged. Grief can also arise from loss of functioning (physical and cognitive), breakups, divorces, and life stages. I find it important to honor this grief. To honor it and to learn to live fully.
- Honoring the wisdom of the body can inform therapy and further personal growth. Attunement to the body can impact emotions and beliefs about yourself.
In short, we will look at bolstering, deconstructing, acceptance, and growth. I look forward to being part of your journey of healing and growth.
Education
Psychology Internship
Durham VAMC
Durham, NC
Clinical Psychology Doctorate
Auburn University
Auburn, AL
Bachelor’s of Science in Psychology
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN
Bachelor’s of Science in Business
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN
Jacey Hammel, Ph.D. 