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Grow in Motion

Body-Centered Mental Health Counselor

Address: Gabrielle Deschaine
131 Kercheval
Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236

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Mobile Phone Number: 708.668.8784

http://www.growinmotion.com

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Practice/Mission/Vision Statement

Gabrielle Deschaine specializes in clinical counseling combining body-centered assessment and intervention with traditional verbal processing. She collaborates with the individual to address difficult issues using body-based strategies for decreasing uncomfortable feeling states, increasing self-soothing skills and developing safe and effective ways of expressing emotions. Some of these body-based strategies include simple non-instructional body part movement, breath work, rhythmic group activity and use of imagery and symbolism. Use of props, games, art-work and role playing is common with younger clients and children.

Verbal processing allows for a mental integration of the movement material and the development of insight, problem-solving skills, as well as greater understanding and compassion for the self.

Specialties and Services

  • Individual/Group Psycotherapy
  • Marital/Family Therapy
  • Children: Adjustment DX, Autism, ADHD
  • Adolescents: Oppositional/Defiant DX, Self-Injury
  • Adults: Mood Disorders, Schizophrenia
  • Seniors: Dementia, Alzheimers
  • Trauma/PTSD
  • Clinical Training
  • Certified Cecchetti Ballet Instructor
  • Dance Instruction: Creative Movement, Belly Dance

Affiliations

  • American Dance Therapy Association

About

Gabrielle Deschaine has worked with children, adolescents, adults and seniors in various settings such as hospitals, shelters, retirement communities and foster care homes since 1996.

Gabrielle was employed with MacNeal Hospital, Berwyn, Illinois, as a clinical therapist for five years where she practiced counseling as part of the Adjunctive Therapy staff for both inpatient and outpatient mental health settings. Her main responsibilities were direct patient care through individual/group psychotherapy sessions. She also trained the mental health technicians and nursing staff to provide psycho-educational groups.

More recently, she had been employed on a contractual basis with the following agencies as an independent practitioner of Grow in Motion from 2003-2007: Volunteers of America Child-Care Services and Roosevelt University, both in Chicago, Illinois. She also trained the in-house clinical staff for The Youth Campus Foster Care Agency, Chicago, Illinois, in 2006.

Currently Gabrielle works for the Alzheimer's Association of Michigan offering Dance/Movement Therapy to seniors.

In Practice/Business Since

1998

Client Ages Served

Ages 3-90

Insurances Accepted

Multi-Plan (formerly PHCS) http://www.phcs.com