Haley Scherff, CT

Haley Scherff (pronouns: she/her) is a counselor trainee who works with children, adolescents, and emerging adults. Her specialty interests include: girls’ and women’s issues, self-esteem, life transitions, communication skills, family dynamics, and trauma. She utilizes humanistic and strength-based treatments which include warmth, empathy, support, and unconditional positive regard. While she tailors her treatment to each unique client, she is also passionate about integrating mindfulness, play therapy techniques, and expressive arts into treatment.

Haley completed her advanced education at Bowling Green State University, earning a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a minor in human development and family studies. She is currently a master’s student at Kent State University, completing a degree in clinical mental health counseling. Her specialized coursework includes counseling children, counseling adolescents, and motivational interviewing. She is trained in ethics and multicultural studies, which play an important role in her counseling practice. She is passionate about continuing her education and training to best support her clients.

Prior to private practice, Haley worked with both emerging and middle adulthood populations at the Kent State Counseling Center.

At the counseling center, she utilized dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills with clients, namely distress tolerance during times of crisis. She assisted clients with coping with anxiety, depression, self-esteem, life transitions, grief, and trauma.

Beyond her clinical work, Haley has experience working as a front office coordinator at a mental health agency. This experience has allowed her to see both the clinical and administrative ends, granting her a well-rounded understanding.

Haley’s approach to counseling is humanistic and strength based. She believes that clients already hold strengths, and her role is to help clients recognize their hidden potential. She explores situations from a psychodynamic lens, recognizing themes of family patterns in childhood and how they relate to present relationships. She aims to help clients understand the root of their discomfort and discover new ways to resolve it. She also utilizes DBT with clients to give them the necessary skills to manage times of crisis.

Her strengths include: an easy-going nature and a deep sense of empathy, warmth, and unconditional positive regard that allow clients to feel safe and comfortable sitting with her.