Practice Description
Offering counseling services to:
—Families, Couples, Individuals
—Children, Adolescents, Adults
Conducting therapy and helping others is a passion of mine. I continually strive to discover and create new ways of healing and connecting. A special strength is healing connections between people—whether I see a couple, a family, or an individual. I work from the assumption that everyone is doing the best they know how. That belief infuses my approach, and seems to help everyone in a family or couple to relax with me, and do good work towards positive change.
As the personalities, strengths, and challenges of my clients unfold before me, I explore how each person influences and is influenced by:
—their families (both their families that they created and the one they grew up in);
—their ecosystem (culture, school, job, friendships);
—and their inner system (the health of their mind, body, and spirit.)
From there, the client and I decide how to make beneficial changes.
In my practice, issues that are often addressed are:
—depression, anger management, anxiety, grief and loss, resolution of past trauma;
—development of relationship skills and intimacy enhancement in couples and families;
—transitions such as a birth of the first child, a teenager trying to grow up, parent–child conflicts, the empty nest;
—child and teen behavioral issues;
—marital crises;
—values assessment;
—habit changes; and
—hope.
I also offer my clients (both children AND adults) the creative use of tools such as:
—clinical hypnosis, a powerful and brief means to make positive changes—and the client is always in charge of the process.
—emotion regulation through mindfulness/meditation training,
—sandtray therapy, providing a nonverbal way of self-exploration and self-explanation,
—play therapy, often an enjoyable means of connection and expression,
—artwork, frequently a connecting as well as an expressive experience,
—PREPARE/ENRICH relationship assessment questionnaire, and
—other exercises as I create them to suit my clients.