About

Hernel has a passion for empowering adolescents, adults, and couples to overcome personal obstacles to improve their lives to wholesome living. In her counseling practice, she uses clinically tested and evidenced-based eclectic mixed modalities to meet each client’s unique needs. Such modalities include mindfulness, cognitive-behavioral, dialectical behavioral, narrative, and art therapy, among other interventions. Hernel’s empathy and warmth help to create a warm, safe, and non-judgmental atmosphere that allows her client to explore, process, and heal. Hernel believes that the therapeutic process should be collaborative where the therapist and client work together to bring about self-awareness, decrease symptomology to allow for greater strength to provide for a more meaningful life experience. Currently, Hernel works with clients who are experiencing anxiety, depression, disruptive behaviors, self-esteem, trauma, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD), abuse, grief, familial conflicts, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), bipolar, addiction, anger, conduct disorders, self-injurious behaviors, emotion regulation, and life transitions.
Hernel has a Doctorate in Community Care and Counseling/Marriage and Family from Liberty University, an MBA in Marriage and Family from Liberty University, a Licensed Professional Counselor, National Board for Certified Counselor, holds an MBA from the University of Phoenix, a Bachelor of Business Administration from Mercer University, and multiple certifications.