Today I\u2019m talking with Becca Ferguson, a licensed professional counselor in trauma recovery and an online course creator who brings her love for storytelling and teaching everywhere she goes. Her advice comes from years of both personal and professional experience and her main goal in her work is to make sure people know that they aren\u2019t alone. Today, she\u2019s here to speak loud for people who don\u2019t know what they need\u2014or are afraid to ask for themselves.\xa0
Seizing Your Autonomy
Becca shares that something she\u2019s learned both as a therapist and a client is that after experiencing trauma, there\u2019s a struggle in knowing how much to tell. One of the reasons why she became a therapist was because of her upbringing. She grew up in a conservative Christian home, where she didn\u2019t have a lot of autonomy, and experienced abuse and the guilt and shame that came with it.\xa0
It wasn\u2019t until last year when Becca was seeing her own therapist that she realized that she had PTSD. She was abused in the church, had over-controlling parents and grew up with little to no autonomy. Since then, a lot of her story has come from accepting diagnosis and learning how to grow through it.
Getting Real with Clients
Becca\u2019s own experiences influence how she approaches her career and her clients. While other therapists don\u2019t believe in the power of self-disclosure, she prefers to be real and vulnerable by providing examples of what she\u2019s talking to her clients about. She feels that this lets her clients connect with her as they can see that she knows what she\u2019s talking about, and also aids in her own healing, as she\u2019s able to process her own traumas in a validating way.\xa0
\u201cMental health doesn\u2019t make sense,\u201d Becca says, which is why she takes a unique approach to every client she has. She works primarily with young adult females, who are often in similar experiences to what she went through. Becca loves relating to her clients, and being a therapist has been a healing experience for herself, as well.\xa0
Values-Based Healing
Along with therapy, Becca is embarking on a virtual coaching adventure, and is launching her first virtual coaching group in June. Her goal is to focus on a different topic in each course and over five weeks connect with and educate women on that topic in small groups. The coaching groups will also use a workbook, another passion of Becca\u2019s that she\u2019s discovered, so that clients will have tangible tools to take back to their own therapists.\xa0
In all her work, Becca wants to create a place where women feel empowered to discover and go after what they need to live their best lives. She works to make her own services as accessible as possible, keeping costs low and classes small. \u201cIt\u2019s less about the experience that we went through,\u201d Becca says, \u201cand it\u2019s more about why we\u2019re healing from it.\u201d Her values-based approach is what sets her apart as both a therapist and a speaker.\xa0
Listen in to learn more about how Becca brings light and humor to her experiences, what modalities she uses for healing in her own life, and to receive a discount for her online courses only for podcast listeners.
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