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My Approach to Helping

I use an eclectic approach to counseling that is based on my ability to be completely present with the client. As I listen, I trust my intuition and my knowledge base to find the most helpful strategy to utilize in the moment. I believe the client sets the agenda. I believe without exception in the client's power to transform! I believe the therapeutic relationship is the key to growth and change. I believe that compassionate acceptance, nonjudgmental support, unconditional positive regard, and caring encouragement are the keys to healing. I will urge the client to take action, but always with the client's commitment and motivation as the primary consideration. I believe in the ability of all humans to accomplish whatever they have set their minds to. A counselor can assist in accelerating that process when the client is ready and can help the client arrive there through unconditional support.

I believe in the intrinsic value of all humans. All people are deserving of respect and kindness by virtue of that innate value. I consider the opportunity to help people to be the highest calling and I treat that honor with reverence and gratitude.

I know that healing involves the mind, the body, and the spirit and to that end I work with the client to integrate all aspects of our thinking/feeling/believing nature. I believe it is not what happens to us in life that is significant, but how we feel and respond to what happens. All humans have incredible resiliency if only encouraged to find it and develop it and that, in my opinion, is our shared task.

I look forward to taking this journey with you.

 

More Info About My Practice

Sliding scale available.

 

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

I am the type of counselor who will go the extra distance to guarantee I am helpful to my client. I am more interested in the helping than the issue. Having said that I do have expertise with women's issues, self esteem, personal empowerment, and finding direction and meaning in one's life.

 

How Psychotherapy Can Help

All of us have times in our lives when we feel overwhelmed, lost, or confused. It is the sacred honor of the therapist to assist the client in finding his or her own answers. I work with my clients from a central belief that I have done my best work when each client has returned to his or her natural state of self reliance and no longer needs me.

Services I Provide

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

Ages I Work With

• Children
• Teens
• Adults
• Elders

Languages I Speak

• English

Therapy Approaches I Use

• Art Therapy
• Body-Mind Psychotherapy
• Client-Directed Outcome-Informed Therapy
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy /REBT
• Emotion Focused Therapy
• Family Systems Therapy
• Feminist Therapy
• Gestalt Therapy
• Guided Therapeutic Imagery
• Holistic Psychotherapy
• Integration of different therapy models
• Interpersonal Psychotherapy
• Journal Therapy
• Mindfulness Based Approaches
• Psychodynamic
• Reality Therapy
• Relational Psychotherapy
• Self Acceptance Training
• Solution Focused Therapy

Concerns & Issues I Help With

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