Rose Justian, LMSW rosejustian@gmail.com

Rose earned her Master of Social Work degree from Grand Valley State University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Western Michigan University majoring in English and Literature. This background gives Rose a focus on the importance of people's life stories and the meanings they give to those stories in learning to how to heal and to understand  a new way of thinking about their lives.

Before entering private practice, Rose worked in the counseling program of a non-profit human services agency counseling adults, children, adolescents and couples with a wide variety of psychological problems and issues.  She gained a great deal of experience counseling both children and adults.

As a Certified Consultant with the Institute of Trauma and Loss in Children, Rose uses extensive training and experience in play and art therapy techniques to help children resolve emotional and traumatic life events.  She also works with parents, helping them collect a greater number of parenting tools so they have more effective ways to help and reach their children.

With a special interest in psychological trauma and its impact across people's lives Rose has received specialized training in healing traumatic memories and experiences with both adults and children. She completed Level I and II training in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. (EMDR,) ['http//www.emdria.com']  a powerful non-medication, non-hypnosis treatment for resolving traumatic live events,  and is completing EMDRIA Approved certification. She also  uses training in Critical Incident Stress Management   to resond to immediate crisis events in the community and has served as a Critical Incident technician for the Lakeshore Critical Incident Response Team and for her church's crisis response team in Western Michigan.

Rose also offers Life Coaching for individuals who wish to close that gap between where they are and where they want to be in their lives. Life Coaching helps people define their values, create a plan and take action in achieving new directions in relationship, vocational, spritiual or social goals.

Email Rose Justian: rosejustian@gmail.com