Practice Description
I work with children, adolescents, and adults. Issues include building more positive communication patterns and skills, single parenting, co-parenting for divorced couples, building a new family after remarriage, home and school behavior problems, ADHD, emotional adjustment to difficult life transitions (for all ages), intimacy, trauma recovery (including PTSD), anxiety, and depression. I also work with adult family issues, such as reuniting family members after a cut off, improving communication, and adult children finding their voice in their relationship with parents.
My general approach is to help clients focus on the issues and situations they wish to change, then to help them explore the strengths and resources that will make this change possible. Therapy may consist of individual attendance, attendance of family members and/or other significant people in the client’s life, or some combination thereof. Therapeutic modalities may be verbal and/or non-verbal (e.g., sand tray, drawing, clay, body movement, or even a sword fight now and then). The client will decide the format and modality of therapy that best suits them.
I utilize theories and practices from Narrative, Solution-Focused, and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies, as well as other respectful, client-focused approaches.