Jennifer Borzillo, LPC-Intern
Jennifer Borzillo, LPC-Intern
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Centre for Well Being – Wausau, WI
Centre for Well Being – Wausau, WI
Mobile: 623-687-6344
Email: jenniejs5@gmail.com
I am a therapist in training committed to helping children, adults, and families navigate life’s challenges, build resilience, and move towards growth and healing. My approach to therapy is rooted in empathy, collaboration, and evidence-based practices tailored to meet the unique needs of each client.
Resume:
Professional Development
Professional Development
Philosophy & Vision
My approach to counseling is to provide a safe, warm, and collaborative place where clients, both child and adult, feel genuinely heard and understood. I approach each person with humility knowing that no two people's stories are the same. I honor this by adapting my approach to fit the individual. Whether drawing from cogitive behavioral tools, trauma informed practices, mindfulness, or child-based therapies, the priority is always the same: the client's well-being.
Clinical Skills
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Cognitive restucturing: Identifying distorted patterns of thinking.
Behavioral activation: Increase engagement in meaningful activities to combat low moods.
Emotional and physiological regulation: Techniques to help calm the body
Synergetic Child Play Therapy (SCPT)
Attuned child-therapist relationship: Therapist models internal somatic stability to help co-regulate the child's emotional distress, providing the safety necessary for therapeutic investigation and relational repair.
Integration of Neuroscience: Recognizing how children process and express emotions. Therapists use this knowledge to tailor interventions that help children integrate emotional experiences and stay within their “window of tolerance”
Play as a theraputic tool: Allows children to express themselves using their own language in a safe environment.
Clinical Skills
Person-Centered Therapy (PCT):
Empathy: Entering the client's inner world to experience and understand how they feel in a deep way without losing one's own perspective.
Unconditional positive regard: Complete acceptance and support for a client without judgement.
Genuinness: Therapist's authentic and transparent presence.
Brainspotting (BPS):
Focused mindfulness: Client maintains dual awareness.
Somatic awareness: Tracking feeling and sensations in the body.
Dual attunment: Therapist stays attuned to the client's internal and external state while also offering a regulated presence.
Optional bilateral stimulation: Alternating sensory input that engages both sides of the body.
Theory Development
Theory Development
Theoretical Framework: My counseling philosophy is anchored in a trauma-informed, holistic care that honors the innate resilience of the individual and integrates relational depth with neurobiological processing. As a counseling intern, my foundational approach is rooted in Person-Centered Therapy, operating under the firm belief that a safe, authentic, and unconditionally supportive therapeutic alliance is the essential catalyst for human growth and healing. Recognizing that distress is experienced across both cognitive and physiological dimensions, I am actively evolving my practice by weaving in top-down stabilization techniques alongside bottom-up, somatically-driven modalities to serve clients across the lifespan.
Counselor Identity Development
Counselor Identity Development
1. Psychological Fitness
Self-Care & Emotional Resilience: Maintaining a consistent personal self-care regimen and clear professional boundaries to ensure emotional stability and sustained clinical effectiveness.
Burnout Prevention: Actively engaging in ongoing peer consultation, professional support, and reflective practices to prevent clinical fatigue and maintain high quality of care for all clients.
2. Cultural Diversity
Multicultural Competence & Humility: Committed to ongoing learning regarding power dynamics, privileges, and systemic factors impacting mental health.
Inclusive Practice: Culturally responsive care tailored to each client’s unique background, race, ethnicity, and identity.
3. Genuineness
Authentic Presence: Grounded in Carl Rogers’ principle of congruence, bringing a genuine, human presence into the therapeutic room.
Relational Transparency: Fostering real, trustworthy therapeutic relationships while upholding appropriate professional boundaries.
4. Flexibility
Integrative Approach: Adapting therapeutic interventions—drawing from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and mindfulness-based practices—to meet client needs.
Client-Centered Pacing: Continuously reassessing treatment plans and shifting clinical strategies based on evolving client goals and feedback.
5. Self-Awareness
Reflective Practice: Actively identifying personal values, emotional triggers, and countertransference dynamics to ensure clinical objectivity.
Ongoing Personal Growth: Dedication to continuous self-reflection and professional supervision as an ethical priority.
6. Patience
Honoring the Healing Process: Understanding that personal growth and trauma resolution are non-linear processes requiring time and emotional safety.
Holding Space for Ambivalence: Meeting client resistance and stages of change with steady, unhurried support.
7. Empathy
Deep Understanding: Validating clients' lived experiences and internal worlds without judgment.
Therapeutic Alliance: Utilizing empathetic listening to build high-trust connections where clients feel genuinely heard and understood.
8. Amiability
Warmth & Approachability: Creating a welcoming, safe, and comfortable environment from the initial intake session onward.
Interpersonal Ease: Using a collaborative, warm interpersonal style to reduce anxiety around seeking therapy.
9. Acceptance
Unconditional Positive Regard: Providing a non-judgmental atmosphere where clients can explore their most challenging emotions and experiences.
Safe Exploration: Ensuring clients feel fully accepted across all aspects of their identity and behavior.
10. Personal Identity
Integrated Clinical Identity: Blending personal values of compassion, integrity, and lifelong learning into a coherent professional framework.
Ethical Commitment: Dedicated to upholding professional ethical codes while honoring the unique personal narrative every client brings.
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