More Info About My Practice

My practice is focused on uncovering strengths, building them up, and encouraging you to live the best life possible. This is accomplished by building an understanding of the reality of your life and then creating new, constructive goals and directions from which to embrace a future that is built on strength and personal awareness. This process offers you the opportunity to connect to your core strengths and experience life to the fullest.

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

When a teen starts to realize that they are gay it can be a challenging moment in their life full of questions and confusion.

Is it safe to tell my parents?

Will my friends find out?

Will I get bullied at school?

How do I date?

As a teen therapist and counselor I specialize in working with teens and their families during the coming out process. I help your teen to find their way through this maze of confusion and emotional turmoil; assisting them to find out who they are, how this new aspect of their identity will effect their life, and learning how to live a full and productive life as a member of the LGBT community.

Coming out as gay is a very important moment for your teen and working with a counselor who specialize in working with gay teens can make the process easier and more open for your teenager and the entire family.

Why Going to Therapy Does Not Mean You are Weak or Flawed

Choosing to go to therapy is not about being weak or flawed, it is actually about choosing strength and awareness. Therapy is a place to uncover the stories that have kept you from succeeding and then learn how to create the dreams and goals for the future you desire.
I look at therapy as going in for a tune up with a professional who has the training and skills to help me gain better focus. In my life I have used therapy to manage the feelings of ending a relationship, as a place to explore my feelings after having lost a loved one, and as an incubator to focus myself toward the dreams and goals that I envisioned for my future.
Having a place where you can talk over anything and not feel judged or shamed is one of the most amazing aspects of therapy. A good therapist will direct you toward a path of healing without holding judgement over your head.
In my therapy practice, you are the expert on your life, after all you have been there for most of it. I use my professional training as a means to explore that life in a positive and non-judgemental fashion so that you can move toward the life you desire.

My Blog Posts

• How Parents Can Support a Child with Gender Dysphoria
• Treat Yourself? Sure, But Then Try This: 3 Tips for Radical Self-Care
• Break Up or Make Up? What to Consider Before Reconsidering Your Ex
• After the Breakup: 5 Tips for Healing and Personal Growth
• Holiday Isolation and Loneliness in the LGBTQ+ Community
• Dating Is More than Waiting: Make Your Own Opportunities
• How to Help an LGBT Teen Cope with the Orlando Massacre
• LGBTQIA Disclosure: What Coming Out Means for Personal Freedom
• 5 Reasons It’s Good to Be Gay and Single
• Is Your Kid's School Doing Enough to Support LGBTQIA Youth?
• 3 Simple Ways LGBT Couples Can Revive Their Sex Lives
• Supporting LGBTQ Teens Coming Out: It's a Family Process
• Scars of Addiction: How to Help Children of Addicted Parents
• Is Fear of Rejection Keeping You Single?
• A New Approach to HIV Prevention: Ready for PrEP?
• Gay Marriage: A Shift in Perspective
• Michael Sam: an Unlikely LGBT Hero
• Everybody’s Getting Married: A Gay Dilemma
• Rainbow Racism: It Doesn't Stop with Being Gay
• Should You Get Tested for HIV/AIDS?
• Finding Love Through Laughter
• Serodiscordant Couples: Making It Work
• Dating and the Perfection Trap
• Facing Challenges Together: Foundations of a Strong LGBT Relationship
• Gay Teens and Suicide Prevention
• Coming Out in Adulthood: Challenges and Expectations
• Dating: an Old-Fashioned Concept for a Modern Age
• LGBT Therapy: Choosing the Right Therapist