Bethany Marie Crile

Bethany is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Certified Synergetic Play Therapist, and a Reiki Practitioner. Bethany is also a Certified EMDR Therapist and has advanced training in healing pre-verbal trauma utilizing EMDR Therapy.

As a passionate and empathetic mental health professional, I seek to provide creative, exploratory therapeutic practices to help children flourish. I hold space for children to think, feel, explore, and make sense of their innermost worlds. I seek to enhance their brain/body connections to aid in healthy, autonomous development while healing from past traumatic experiences. My approach is very playful, child-directed, and trauma-informed. I am simply an instrument to help children unlock their unique gifts and potentials. 

I view the most important gift we can develop for ourselves and others as awareness. Awareness promotes active participation in the present moment. Within that present moment, we can grow –make changes, heal, succeed, evolve, express, and unlock deeply buried truths. When we develop increased awareness of self and others, we learn how to sit with uncomfortable thoughts, feelings, and sensations, receive their messages, and make beneficial strides towards healing.

It’s an honor to be welcomed into a child’s innermost world – a place where imaginations soar and big feelings present new challenges. I thrive from these shared moments of awareness, of connection, of serendipitous exchanges. It’s in these moments that children transcend past adverse experiences and their resilient nature shines brightly.