Practice Description
I love listening to people's stories. I have been a therapist for almost 20 years and am drawn to the thoughts, feelings and experiences that become our personal journey. I work with children, teens and adults. I am married and have 4 children. You can trust that I understand the excruciating joy of navigating life with many different personalities. I have worked as a therapist for over 15 years, in homes and offices, taught parent trainings in groups and to individuals, consulted with teachers and families in local school districts, and worked at a local hospital.
I am an systems therapist, which means I consider the context of a person's story and struggle. We all are in relationship with other people and other "systems;" job, school, faith community, neighborhood and each of those systems impact us. I always consider the relationships outside of therapy.
A therapist must be more than a good listener. It is my responsibility to have competent training and be able offer my client something different; a skill, a perspective, a habit. The client and I design an approach that fits the client, one that will enable change and restore hope.