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

My Approach to Helping

I work collaboratively with my clients. Through compassion, empathy, trust, and humor, I help them to discover their own inner compass instead of living a life driven by gaining acceptance from others. I help heal emotional pain by looking at their "story" - circumstances of the past and present which keep them locked in behaviors which were needed for survival at the time, but are no longer productive. Together we come up with a set of goals, identify their strengths, and then sharpen the tools and skills needed to not only achieve those goals, but to continue to allow them to lead joyful and genuine lives.

I am not only a well trained professional - but a fellow traveler who has had my own share of negotiating life's challenges. I have a deep understanding for the shame, pain, and confusion that life sometimes hands to us, and an experience of how to push beyond that to lead a happy, healthy, balanced life.

 

 

Specific Issue(s) I'm Skilled at Helping With

I am qualified as a psychotherapist both by my professional training and by having successfully navigated my own challenges in a way that makes me passionate about helping others. I really enjoy working with those who are dealing with grief of some kind; whether it be in the form of a person, dream, hope, job, or illness. I am entirely comfortable with the pain of loss, and with the anger and guilt that often accompany it. I don't believe that it is a time-limited issue or that society does a good job of providing a safe place for grief in general. I also love working with women's issues; depression, anxiety, career changes, menopause, divorce, empty nest, parenting kids/adults with special needs and others, taking care of elderly parents, childlessness, relationship issues, re-inventing oneself, and a myriad of other issues. Having been both a stepmother and biological mother of children with special needs, I have a good understanding for those challenges.

Services I Provide

• Individual Therapy & Counseling
• Marriage, Couples, or Relationship Counseling
• Family Therapy
• Group Therapy
• Coaching
• Consultation

Ages I Work With

• Children
• Teens
• Adults
• Elders

Languages I Speak

• English

Groups I Work With

Eating Disorders, Grief and Loss, Relationship Issues, Transition, Elder Care, Chronic Pain or Health issues, Multiple Personality Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Mood and Anxiety Disorders

Therapy Approaches I Use

• Anger Management
• Client-Directed Outcome-Informed Therapy
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy /REBT
• Coherence Therapy / Depth-Oriented Brief Therapy
• Collaborative Therapy / Collaborative Language Systems
• Depth Therapy
• Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy
• Existential Psychotherapy
• Family Attachment Narrative Therapy
• Family Systems Therapy
• Feminist Therapy
• Gestalt Therapy
• Humanistic Psychology
• Interpersonal Psychotherapy
• Mindfulness Based Approaches
• Motivational Enhancement Therapy
• Narrative Therapy
• Object Relations
• Parent Work
• Person Centered / Rogerian
• Positive Psychology
• Positive Psychotherapy
• Psychodynamic
• Solution Focused Therapy
• Systems Theory /Therapy
• Transpersonal Psychotherapy
• Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Concerns & Issues I Help With

• Identity Issues
• Attachment
• Reproduction
• Abuse: Emotional, Physical, or Sexual
• Trauma
• Occupational & Academic Issues
• Addictions & Compulsions
• Life Changes
• Childhood & Adolescence
• Family Problems
• Social Skills & Problems
• Health & Body
• Anxiety, Fear, & Stress
• Emotion Management
• Depression & Mood
• Relationships & Marriage
• Self-Esteem & Confidence
• Sexuality
• Spirituality
• Self-Harm & Suicide