About Love Garden Wellness
Love. Garden. Love Garden.
Love Garden Wellness.
Love Garden Wellness is a symbol of the potential for harmony and balance among the dimensions of wellbeing.
The helpful integration of care for the mind, body, metaphysical, and more.
Mind | Body | Meta
Love Garden Wellness promotes Integrated health care with an Integrative approach, while practicing with Integrity and Innovation.
Love Garden Wellness is a growing clinical practice and platform for integrated and integrative treatment interventions. Where clinical evidence-based therapeutics and the complementary arts and sciences combine. Working along with you and your other providers to support you in achieving greater whole-health and wellbeing.
There are several specific dimensions of wellness often promoted within health science. According to the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration: “Wellness incorporates many dimensions of health, each of which is interconnected within an individual’s total wellbeing. More than the absence of disease or stress, wellness involves having: purpose in life, active involvement in satisfying work and play, joyful relationships, a healthy body and living environment, and happiness.”
These dimensions are symbolized in the overlapping facets within the logo, as they are a standard of care to be considered for every client of this practice throughout treatment.
Emotional
Intellectual
Physical
Environmental
Social
Occupational
Financial
Spiritual
When viewed and supported in this integrated and multi-dimensional form, we most often find whole-health.
Promoting improved individual quality of life, along with stronger relationships within our community and habitat.
Restoring the Balance with You.
Love Garden Wellness also recognizes the complimentary process of the healthy collaboration between the client and their care provider. Or, between one care provider and another while tending to client needs. Or, the client in connection to others within their greater community. The practice logo is comprised of two equal ‘seeds of life’ intersecting. Yet with two different angles or ‘perspectives,’ still working perfectly in tandem to create the image seen. Only by working together while uniquely positioned can both bring forth this symbolic profile of balance, beauty, and life.
About Callen West, LCSW
My name is Callen West and my pronouns are they/them - I am openly nonbinary.
As a behavioral health clinician, counselor, and psychotherapist, I intend to be a catalyst encounter for your success - even when gently as a facilitator or companion for your inner-work.
Before you decide if I get to know all about you, here is a little about me and my background.
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), member of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), and a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP). My personal values align with the ethics of my field and I aim for authentic and engaging care.
I provide services to individual adolescents and adults of all ages, inclusion of their given and chosen families or supports, as well as groups, workshops, and consulting. Currently, I’m meeting with clients through this independent private practice, Love Garden Wellness. Primarily licensed and serving those who live in Florida (SW17691), with additional licensure and clients in Colorado (CSW.009929156), Maryland (30864), and Oregon (L15278). The Interstate Licensing Compact is moving forward for Licensed Clinical Social Work, but net yet able to be implemented.
I specialize in therapeutic intervention for complex or single event trauma, grief, loss, and adjustment challenges, stress and anxiety related disorders, chronic or new medical illness, neurodivergence, and LGBTQIA2S+ related needs. Most often, my clients are facing most of these or other marginalized identities, all at once.
In addition to these areas, I have a diverse background of clinical experience providing treatment. With ongoing continuing education across various intervention models and research, I aim to personalize care aligned with your needs.
I bring systems awareness and the person-in-environment perspective to all service encounters. I support the integration of holistic wellness perspectives in care and have completed certificates in psychotherapy and the mind-body connection, mindfulness, meditation, brain health and more.
I have practice wisdom from over 8 years within the behavioral health treatment continuum of crisis, detoxification, inpatient, residential complex trauma and polysubstance abuse recovery, and socioeconomically diverse outpatient behavioral and integrated care contexts - within nonprofit, for profit, government, forensic and community collaboration within Central Florida.
While working in community mental health treatment and during my education, I have received awards from my peers and leadership for integrity, team work, diversity, and the importance of human relationships.
I achieved my clinically focused Master of Social Work (MSW) at the University of Central Florida, along with my generalist practice Bachelor of Social Work (BSW), with a Minor in Nonprofit Management. My education and years of experience were the foundations needed to pursue clinical licensure and later build my own practice.
I was born and raised on the Florida West Coast. Throughout my life I have also spent extended time and briefly lived in Appalachia, my second home. Washington, D.C. and the surrounding natural area is one of my favorite places to visit by train and then hike. I enjoy my given and chosen people, furry, feathered, and scaly friends. I am humanity-oriented and I am often communing with nature through gardening, or exploring inter-faith concepts along with various world, spiritual, and cosmic views.
I am grateful for the privilege to practice my profession. I know you have, and I support, your choice when searching for who you want to work with.
I believe this therapeutic work can be mutually rewarding and enriching for both the client and clinician.
I know it requires community to meet the needs of the people, and aim to remain aware and connected with the various service providers and safe spaces that benefit uniquely you.
About My Approach to Care
The therapeutic relationship between my clients and I is a sincere one and a part of what makes therapy effective.
When meeting someone new or starting a relationship of any kind, it can result in nervousness about the unknown.
To give you a better view of my approach and what you can expect, I have outlined the points below.
I believe finding the right fit for the therapeutic relationship or level of care is necessary for various reasons and this is an open topic. If not me, now, I will do my best to connect or redirect you to what you uniquely need. Sometimes this is clear at the start of services, or becomes more known as we progress.
I am intentional to review your privacy rights and limitations, your service options and expectations, seek your consent, and support your self-determination when making decisions.
I provide a collaborative approach to counseling and psychotherapy by respecting you as the expert of your life and sincerely have trust in your innate healing ability.
I aim to eliminate stigma, shame, and build rapport with professional use of self, selective self-disclosure, and honesty. I welcome questions, feedback, and correction.
I aim to be present and aligned while joining you in identifying individualized strategies for change toward reaching personalized goals which reduce clinical levels of distress or impairment, and build wellbeing.
I aim to hold space for you to process and move through some of the deeper pain of life, stabilize your balance, and celebrate your empowerment, self-understanding, and self-actualization.
I enjoy honoring and incorporating each client’s unique strengths, values, worldviews, and meaningful secular and spiritual belief systems in treatment.
I value neurodiversity and ability diversity. I aim to affirm clients who are BIPOC, Latine/x/o/a, AAPI, and LGBTQIA2S+. I am comfortable working with diverse identities and relationship orientations, respecting your lived experience.
I aim to support an inclusive treatment community with integrated, integrative, evidence-based, holistic, resilience-oriented, and trauma-informed care.
I enjoy building treatment relationships with individuals who are seeking extended psychotherapy to be a support around long-term and life changing goals of stabilizing, lifestyle change, and depth healing, during continued personal and interpersonal development.