An integrative approach
Individual Therapy
Therapy allows people an opportunity to explore their experiences in a focused and intentional way, often leading to greater insight, coping, and an increased ability to move towards their life goals. Are you unclear about what the problem is? That's normal. The initial meeting includes an assessment in which I share a conceptualization of the problem--as well as recommendations about services.
Couples Counseling
Many couples benefit from entering a space in which they can explore their relationship in an intentional way, uncovering their strengths and confronting their challenges. Whether a couple is in crisis or doing well, therapy offers people an opportunity for relational growth.
Children and Adolescents
Adolescents and young children often benefit from therapy. An important developmental task of the teenage years is to solidify identity and find a meaningful place in the world. It is a time of life that often brings with it increased stress. Therapy offers teenagers a space to explore their thoughts and feelings about themselves, others, and the world. Young children process and express their feelings differently than teenagers or adults. When a young child has a bad day at school they often say, "will you play with me?" Counseling for young children often includes play therapy strategies, offering the child a safe place to work through their feelings and thoughts.
Family Therapy
Families often benefit from going to therapy together. Families, like individuals, develop and change over time, navigating challenges and adapting to new circumstances. Each member of a family has a stake in the family's welfare, which means that each member has a role in creating or maintaining positive change.
Anxiety and Depression
Depression is often defined by the following experiences: fatigue or low-energy, worthlessness, impaired concentration, lack of sleep or excessive sleep, decreased interest in activities once enjoyed, restlessness, and thoughts of death or dying. Talking about your experience of depression is important. Why? Because mushrooms and depression have this in common: they both grow in the dark.
​Preoccupied thinking, nervousness, fear, excessive worry, and GI problems are often symptoms of anxiety. The distress anxiety causes can keep people from carrying on with their normal lives. Therapy helps people who experience anxiety regain a sense of control.
Other
I also have experience working with people in the areas of gender/sexuality related dysphoria, grief and loss, trauma, ADHD, autism, conduct/behavioral problems, and psychotic disorders.