I specialize in the treatment of weight and eating disorders, depression and anxiety. I provide cognitive-behavioral therapy, which focuses on helping the client to identify thoughts and emotions associated with certain behaviors. Through this journey, I help clients understand how and why they are responding to situations in the way that they do, enabling them to find inner peace and lead fuller, more enriched lives. I typically meet with clients on a one-on-one basis, but I am happy to schedule sessions with concerned partners, parents or other family members together with the client.

Relationships among people create knowledge. We need other minds to hone impressions into insight. We need open, honest, direct communication: this is HOW to create knowledge. The risks of self-disclosure are offset with devoted attendance, and willing participation. Hence, it is how not what problem is raised that yields solutions; how issues are raised and treated. We can see honesty, feel caring connection & invest in high risk daring sharing. The how is so much more important than the what of a thorny issue. A good group member is a committed person to his own and others' growth. There's no room for judging, just caring contact.

I provide therapy for individuals, couples, families, adults and children. I have worked with many different clients providing the support needed for change. My experience at various social service agencies, at a child and family clinic; and in a college clinic has given me the opportunity to work with many adults, children, adolescents and families. I find my training in marriage and family therapy is particularly helpful for my clients in that it helps individuals better understand their relationships with themselves and others in their life. I regularly look at the systemic process in relationships, and at attachment issues.

I focus a great deal on helping people expand their awareness of aspects of themselves and their important relationships that they have difficulty paying attention to and feeling. This increased awareness helps people feel more flexible and free to navigate the obstacles and cross-currents they find facing them in their lives, rather than remain stuck in repetitive cycles of suffering.

I strive to provide efficient and effective treatment to meet the needs of each individual client while ensuring a warm, safe, and friendly environment. In addition to an inviting environment and a strong focus on outcomes, I value a collaborative approach and a strong relationship in therapy. Although I am the expert in helping people, you are the expert on you. This philosophy allows the client to feel responsible for his or her own successes and stay accountable for progress. My therapy is goal focused, fosters change, empirically supported, supportive, and incorporates an overall goal to attain balance and wellness.

I am a therapist deeply committed to addressing all the issues interfering with your life. These may include trauma, feeling unlovable, or difficulties in your relationships. Together, we will seek resolutions for issues currently facing you while exploring and understanding significant events/relationships in your past. This exploration is essential, as experiences in your past directly and powerfully contribute to the present. This path of therapy leads you toward a greater capacity to realize your true potential and a greater capacity to engage in and experience joy in your relationships. Most importantly, it is the path toward revealing your own capacity of transformation within you.

Maybe you end your workday unsettled and anxious from extra responsibilities you face. Why? Because you care. Today’s work environment is more unstable and more anxiety-inducing than ever before. Internal politicking, external competition, relationship pressures, and the “global” economics and pandemic affect you. If you’ve been feeling anxiety and overwhelm, peace is available. Short-term coaching may be helpful in career goals, but therapy is where you can understand the source of your anxieties, how it holds you back in its many forms, and have hope for long term healing.

Are you anxious, depressed, maybe diagnosed with a serious illness? Are you losing sleep, in pain, scared, not knowing who to talk to? Maybe you’re confused about information your doctor or friends are giving you. I’d like to help. Would you like to find natural ways to reduce your physical and/or emotional symptoms, or bolster your immune system without interfering with what you and your health team are already doing? I work with people who have emotional or physical health concerns: anxiety, depression, relationship problems, cancer, autoimmune disorders, heart disease, and chronic pain.

In a safe, comfortable and supportive atmosphere, I offer a holistic, highly individualized approach tailored to your needs in order to help you attain personal growth and awareness. Together we will work to create an experience where you feel empowered and on a positive path to mind, body, and spiritual wellness. Through collaboration, you will be able to reconcile and understand your past loss/traumas/relationships, overcome your challenges/patterns to live in the present, and make changes and grow into your true potential.

You are facing a significant life challenge. Maybe it's the death of an important person, or the end of a relationship, or simply a natural life change. Possibly it is another type of challenge, such as recovery from addiction or trauma. Maybe your child is experiencing their own difficulties and you want to help them, but you aren't sure how. You have questions and concerns: Is what I'm feeling ok? How do I best help and support myself and/or my child? How will I re-make my life? What does healing mean to me ... and who am I as I undertake that process? Your questions are valid, and exploring them could be helpful.

As a Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified Advanced Alcohol and Drug Counselor, my aim is to assist individuals struggling with mental health and/or addiction issues by helping them to explore, identify, and better understand factors underlying negative patterns in their lives. I encourage and support my clients in developing personal plans of action to begin to challenge and break free from those patterns.

If you're here because you feel stuck or are at a crossroads in life, I'd like to help. My clients are successful people who have reached a point of feeling stuck in their careers or personal lives. They want help resolving that indecision so they can achieve even greater success and happiness. Often the indecision is accompanied by feelings of anxiety or depression. I use cognitive-behavioral techniques to help identify and remove obstacles to greater personal and professional satisfaction.

Areas of specialty include: developing communication strategies focused on improving relationships in step-families/blended families, and for individuals and couples. Additional areas of treatment include: counseling divorce/separation and break-up issues, infidelity, restructuring life following a loss, catastrophic event, managing cancer survivorship and developing coping strategies following life transitions (loss of job/graduating from college), supportive treatment for infertility struggles, as well as, treatment for anxiety, depression, and stress. My extensive nursing background, coupled with my Masters Degree therapy training and experience, have given me a deeper depth of empathy and understanding of life's challenges.

As a mental health clinician focused on the dynamics of trauma and domestic violence, I value contemplative practices such as focused meditation, stillness, breath work, body-oriented therapy, and cognitive-based therapies in the context of healing, building capacity and developing resilience.

There is nothing more important than the relationships we have with both ourselves and others! Without a healthy feeling of belonging and connection to others, problems will exist. Be it parent/child conflicts, problems at school, adolescent issues, marital/premarital, substance abuse, anxiety, depression, and/or issues with life transitions, I can help you! .

I am a practical, interactive, solution-focused therapist, my treatment approach is to provide support and practical feedback to help clients resolve current problems and long-standing patterns. I help clients find solutions to a wide range of life challenges and psychological issues. Blending conventional and alternative approaches, I draw on a variety of styles and techniques to incorporate what will be most helpful for each client. Treatment specialization includes Addiction & Recovery, Depression and Anxiety, Trauma, Grief and Loss, Relationship Problems, Stress Management, and Family Issues and Conflict Resolution.

Gain an ally to help you face life's challenges. Events happen to us, but we never lose the ability to choose how we view those events, nor to choose what we do next to determine our direction and life's meaning. Together, we can explore your life to help you understand where you have been and help you overcome limiting beliefs and patterns. We can help you view your problems with new perspectives and solve the ones that need solving. Therapy does not have to be uptight or inflexible; humor is encouraged.

Everyone has strengths that they can utilize and build off of in order to create the change they want. They may need me to help look inward and find them, but I believe strengths are there for everyone. I have been working in this field for over 10 years, and specifically working with individuals and couples in a private practice setting since 2010. During the therapeutic process, you will learn how your past impacts your current interactions, choices, and behaviors. You will learn to understand and identify what is keeping you from your ideal change and how to overcome unhealthy behaviors.

Welcome! As a Cognitive Behavior Therapist providing counseling for children, adolescents, young adults and adults Anxiety, Depression, ADHD, School and Work related problems and social relationships, we will explore the skills needed to make desired change at any level. You will learn to support your social and emotional growth through a positive process of self-discovery, empowerment and problem-solving. Treatment modalities include: CBT; Anxiety and Stress management; Social thinking and perception; identifying emotions and self-regulation; problem solving; and the incorporation of mindful behavior into daily life.