Therapist Profile

My Approach to Helping

With 20+ years of experience and solid training I am dedicated to helping you feel and be your best. Offering individual and group psychotherapy, my style is open, attuned, and compassionate, with room for humor. I will help you formulate effective coping strategies and tools to be more in control while discovering what contributes to, and helps maintain, underlying patterns of helplessness, self-defeat, and unsatisfying relationships. Our work focuses on your personality and needs. Self-exploration, leading to a new understanding of "old" scripts, generates creativity, resilience, flexibility, and novel thinking (essential for good problem-solving!). GROUPS: Women's Resiliency Groups; Parenting Groups; Surviving Middle School Girl's Groups. SPECIALTIES: Life Transitions; Relationships; Depression; Anxiety; Coping With Adversity; Family of Origin Struggles; Mother-Daughter Issues; Examining Life's Meaning and Purpose; Loss; and Early Trauma.

More Info About My Practice

My initial consultation is free should you decide for any reason not to return for followup sessions. During this time you can share your concerns and get a sense of how well I understand what brought you to therapy, your needs and goals. Effective psychotherapy is about a good "fit" between two people, as well as education, training, and experience. During the consultation, you can raise any questions about psychotherapy in general, how I work, or your particular situation.
I am not on any insurance panels, but instead prefer to work directly with you. If there is a true financial need, I will do my best to have us figure out a fee that is workable. During the course of therapy I will provide you with a monthly statement that contains all the information required by your insurance company. In special cases, I will work with an insurance company on a Single Case Agreement. If you want help with other resources I am available to assist you with that, as well.