Client Focus

Individual Therapy

In a compassionate and supportive atmosphere, I offer a highly personalized approach tailored to each of my client’s individual needs to help attain the personal growth they are striving to reach. I work with a wide range of emotional and behavioral issues: anxiety, perfectionism, relationships, trauma, grief, depression, feeling stuck, career issues, depression, and beyond. Modalities used may include Psychodynamic, Humanistic, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Gestalt, Somatic, Mindfulness, Expressive Arts and Play Therapy.


Child & Adolescent Therapy

Growing up is often difficult. As children and adolescents develop, they are experiencing many changes emotionally, cognitively, biologically, and socially. I don’t fix children and teens, but rather help them gain self-awareness; learn skills to identify, express, and manage emotions; build resiliency; and develop into healthy adults. Modalities that may be used in therapy are play therapy, expressive arts, mindfulness, Gestalt Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.

  • Behavioral problems

  • Anxiety

  • Depression

  • Self-image

  • Peer problems, relationship difficulties

  • Anger issues

  • Bullying

  • School Issues (test anxiety, procrastination, feeling overwhelmed by assignments, perfectionism)

  • Adjusting to transitions (separation, divorce, new blended family, relocation)

  • Grief loss


Couples Therapy/Relationship Therapy

Couples Therapy and Relationship Therapy can be beneficial for any stage of the relationship, helping to avoid relationship crisis by learning skills to better understand each other as individuals, thus strengthening the relationship and making it easier to navigate life stressors together. Common relationship issues therapy can help with include infidelity, intimacy issues, lack of trust, parenting, co-parenting, and miscommunication.

Areas of Focus

Anxiety

Do you overthink? Worry about everything? Procrastinate? Anxiety is an emotion that is useful in some situations such as surviving potential dangers like being close to fire and knowing to get out of harm’s way or worrying just enough to meet a deadline. Anxiety disorders are indicated when the severity of the anxious feeling is out of proportion to the stressor. Psychotherapy may help you identify stressors which trigger anxious thoughts and teach you tools to reduce symptoms.

Depression

Depression may negatively affect how you feel, the way you think and how you act. Symptoms of depression can include sadness, loss of interest or pleasure in activities, changes in appetite, changes in sleep pattern, loss of energy or increased fatigue, feeling worthless, shame or guilty, difficulty thinking and/or concentrating, and thoughts of death or suicide. Psychotherapy may help you gain an understanding of depression and provide skills to move through this difficult experience.

Life Transitions

Changes are occurring all the time. Even positive changes can cause stress resulting in anxiety or depression. Starting college, career changes, moving, starting a family, marriage, divorce, retirement, and children moving out of the home are all major life transitions. Psychotherapy may help you gain self-awareness and learn coping tools to adjust and thrive during major changes.