Welcome!

Hello. Welcome. Glad to have you here! I'm Dr. Desiree Howell, a licensed counseling psychologist, and I wanted to share a little bit about who I am, who I help and how I help so you can better get a sense of me and my style and to see if possibly working with me would be a good fit for your needs.

I can see adults who live in New York, Iowa, and all PsyPact states my practice is entirely online. So telehealth online sessions are very convenient. No worrying about traffic or the weather or anything like that. I love efficiency and ease and comfort and making life a little bit easier.

Burnout Recovery for High-Achieving Women

A little bit about me is that I'm specialized in helping high-achieving women recover from burnout, especially stressed, maybe identifying as people pleasers or as perfectionists. But just folks who really are, stressed out kind of like have had enough and life is not working, even if it seems like everything looks good on the outside. On paper, life looks really amazing. But you know, maybe it's just too much pressure or not enough joy or something still feels off or an emptiness. Especially feeling like you're giving, giving, giving, and not really getting a lot in return. And so that's in that sense, kind of recovering from burnout in general. And I know that can mean a lot of different things in terms of, how that affects relationships either. If you're partnered with your partner, if you're a parent, your relationship with your children, it could be affecting your work life. So your career or your job, how are you feeling fulfilled? Are you getting what you need in different realms of life, right? It can mean self care trusting yourself and really prioritizing your needs.

You are welcome here. I look forward to talking about all these topics in a lot more detail in, in future videos. As I really unpack and dive in to sort of what burnout is, what it looks like, and more importantly what, what small changes we can do or big changes we can do to remedy all that and really kind of realign with your values. Right? A lot of times when folks are burned out, it feels like they may say they value family or health or travel or, whatever it might be, but then if you look at their day-to-day life and how they're spending their time, it's not matching it's not aligning with their values and that often can leave people feeling burned out and overwhelmed and kind of fed up with everything.

Couples Counseling

My other specialty is working with couples. I really enjoy working with couples whether it's premarital and they're just looking around for compatibility and really making sure things are on track before they totally commit or couples who've been together a while and are wanting to work on connection and communication. And again, just having their lives run a little bit better. I really do enjoy helping folks rebuild or tweak healthy relationships so that way everyone's needs are being met and everyone feels loved and cared for and important to the person that matters.

Working Together

I really look forward to talking with you. If you think that maybe working with me would be a good fit again, mostly weekly online sessions as a psychologist providing talk therapy. I use a few different modalities for that, but mostly relational. Solution-focused emotionally focused but it's really client centered and systemic. I'm always thinking about the big picture and the environment and how things outside of just you impact you. But I do really enjoy being collaborative. I feel like I am the guide, you know, helping you along, pointing things out and trying to make life a little easier and helping you make different decisions. So you can start feeling differently, thinking differently behaving differently for more joy, More alignment, more ease.

I'm honored to be a part of that journey of helping your life be what it, what you want it to be. I feel like we all deserve to have a line that life with joy. So if you think working with me might be a good fit check out the services page and the contact page. You can click on the contact page to schedule a free 20 minute phone consultation, so we can chat a little bit about your goals, what you're looking for. We can also check to see if availability and everything match up. Take care!