Helping People Find Therapists & Advocating for Ethical and Healthy Therapy & Marriage Counseling Practices

My Approach to Helping

I am a Family and Couples therapist with over 25 years experience working in schools and clinics. Having worked as an educational psychologist for many years in Massachusetts, I then continued my work in England for 6 years where I completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Family and Couples Counseling. Currently I work with individuals,couples, and children (ages 5-15)with their families. My approach is eclectic, creative, and most certainly client-centered, drawing from a wide variety of psychotherapy methods. If any of the following quotes resonate and you find yourself struggling to stay afloat, please call for an initial appointment and together we can see how I might be useful or helpful to you.

"All our lives we search for someone who makes us complete. We choose partners and change partners. We dance the song of heartbreak and hope all the while,wondering if somewhere,somehow there is someone searching for us."

"I wonder, among the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie" (Edith Wharton)

"Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them" (Le Petit Prince)

"There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience"

Although these reflections may be true at any point in time for all of us, there can be happier and better outcomes that await when you acquire a different approach to conflict, more self-knowledge, and skills which can enable your experience in life to be richer with more positive choices.

 

More Info About My Practice

I particularly enjoy working with couples in all the varied stages of their relationships and the many complex challenges of staying together or, in rare cases, coming apart.

I work well with children and their parents, drawing on many years of experience, to establish an easy rapport as well as utilizing creative, age appropriate play to do therapeutic work.

I have a set fee but also will negotiate a reduced fee based on a client's income and resources.

Services I Provide

• Individual Therapy & Counseling
• Marriage, Couples, or Relationship Counseling
• Family Therapy
• Clinical Supervision
• Online Counseling / Phone Therapy

Ages I Work With

• Children
• Teens
• Adults
• Elders

Languages I Speak

• English

Therapy Approaches I Use

• Conflict Resolution Therapy
• Creative Art Therapy
• Dreamwork & Dream Analysis
• Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy
• Existential Psychotherapy
• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
• Family Attachment Narrative Therapy
• Family Systems Therapy
• Internal Family Systems
• Narrative Therapy
• Parent Work
• Person Centered / Rogerian
• Play Therapy
• Sand Tray / Sand Play Therapy
• Solution Focused Therapy
• Transpersonal Psychotherapy

Concerns & Issues I Help With

• Occupational & Academic Issues
• Life Changes
• Childhood & Adolescence
• Family Problems
• Attachment
• Anxiety, Fear, & Stress
• Social Skills & Problems
• Health & Body
• Relationships & Marriage
• Abuse: Emotional, Physical, or Sexual
• Emotion Management
• Identity Issues
• Spirituality