I am highly skilled at helping clients with depression, anxiety, relationships, chronic illness, life transitions, and work/life balance. What brings individuals and couples to therapy is complicated and personal. I will meet you where you are, working with whatever you bring through the door and support you to become expert in shaping your own life.

Are you looking to inspire hope and change in your life? A therapist who will listen to your needs and help you move from where you are to where you want to be? If so, I can guide you through the process of reorganizing your thinking and helping you gain the emotional and behavioral skills needed to make the lifestyle changes you are seeking. It is comforting to have a supportive, qualified clinician with you on your journey of facing challenges that may feel too difficult to face by yourself.

My therapy focuses on you and your needs. My job is not to tell you what to do, but to walk alongside you on your journey, making you aware of and exploring things that may hinder your success. I am trauma-informed and feel that past experiences heavily impact how we navigate the world currently. Personal identity also plays a significant role in our lives and sometimes affects mental health. The client-therapist relationship is extremely important and it is my job to build trust, so you feel comfortable being completely open and honest in a non-judgmental session so positive change can occur.

"Alex" Caroline Robboy, CAS, MSW, ACSW, LCSW is the founder of the Center for Growth Inc, a 16 therapist group practice in two locations. She has 20+ years of experience working with children and adults who are struggling to overcome sexual disorders, postpartum depression, grief, panic, chronic pain, depression, anger, anxiety, trauma, tourettes and addiction. She focuses on individuals, couples and family therapy.

I help people identify and understand their strengths and use those strengths to help them feel ready to make changes and take action. In a supportive space, I get to know you and how your brain works. I think we need to accept ourselves, forgive ourselves for past mistakes, and embrace our current stressors as challenges to navigate and move through. I believe that we need to understand our thought processes to answer the following: Why do we think the way we do? Why do we hyper-focus on some things but then have trouble focusing on other tasks? Why can't we quiet our minds and tune out from our worries?

We specialize in addressing substance abuse and practice Imago Relationship Therapy for couples. We have what it takes to assist the individual and their loved ones into a recovery program that works. We are dedicated to this process and understand the confusion and questions people need to ask. Imago Relationship Therapy came to us as an outgrowth of our recognition that people in recovery need help with relationships and families need support. Our interest in Imago expanded our philosophical approach to therapy and and provided us a skill set useful for any couple seeking to improve their relationship.

I believe in individualized healing: that no two people are the same or have the same story. We will decide together what works best for you to improve your quality of life and overall health & wellness. I believe self-image, self-worth, and personal well-being come from the stories we tell ourselves and the identities we apply to ourselves. Addressing issues such as depression, anxiety & substance use, in a holistic way can bring about change and healing. I engage healing through increasing relationship fulfillment, improving body & self-image, nutrition assessment, life transition support, and recovery from trauma and loss.

It is my primary focus to help empower my clients to make meaningful changes in their lives through goal-directed interventions and strategic planning. With twenty plus years of experience working with adults, children, adolescents, families and various mental health & addiction populations, I encourage the use of one's own strengths to overcome challenging issues. I have been trained to treat various mental health and addictions issues. I use evidence-based, goal oriented and measurable techniques to assist in the therapeutic process. This journey I promise to take with you will achieve positive outcomes and results.

I work with couples and adults. People I have had the pleasure to work with are often in a transitional period of their life and feel stuck working through it on their own. You may fit criteria for the following issues: depression, anxiety, bipolar, chronic illness, sexual dysfunctions (including painful sex, low desire, erectile disorder, achieving orgasm too quickly, or not at all, STI diagnoses, sexual identity and/or orientation exploration, difficulty communicating with partners, partners who have mental health disorders, self-esteem, and body image challenges. I am a good fit for folks who are open to doing exercises at home.

You're a successful person, yet you feel like there is something missing. You're in a holding pattern of conflict and negativity with yourself and others. What you really want is the sense of calmness that comes with confidence. Instead, you're constantly frustrated and exhausted. You are ready for a transformation! Together, we can work to break negative cycles, find the skills to express, and take control back of your life! Or, maybe you're here for your child or teen? You see them struggling. They can't find the words to express to you their pain, but you see it in their behaviors. Both of you feel stuck. Gain direction with us!

On the outside, it may seem like everything is fine - you are successful and have it all together - those around you always wonder how you do it all. But on the inside, you might be overwhelmed, falling apart or carrying an unbearable weight on your shoulders, feel alone and isolated, or scattered. You are searching for a breath of fresh air, a sense of calm, and hope. You want to find balance and feel whole again.

I will work with you to capitalize on your strengths and help you identify and move beyond unhelpful mental and behavioral patterns lurking in your blind spots. Rather than talk endlessly about your problems, we will instead use various empirically supported techniques to step back from your problems and explore new behavioral and belief options that better correspond to your key goals and values. Then you'll practice these new perspectives and strategies at home in your real life until they feel more natural. **Please phone me first as I do not always have daily email access.

Bringing a perspective of empathy and compassion, I seek to impact my community through life-long learning that will empower me to reach and teach some members of society who are disenfranchised, socio-economically distraught and spiritually wandering, in hopes of guiding them to a place of peace through sound, empirical research as well as time honored traditions of faith. - William C. Luff

People seek therapy for a variety of reasons. Though the process of therapy can be difficult, I bring an accepting and compassionate mindset to our relationship that will help you feel comfortable in session and leave therapy feeling more satisfied, skillful, and empowered.

I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 25 years experience working with children, adolescents and families. I enjoy partnering with clients to problem solve and support them through difficult times. I think it is important to look at each individual's environmental, physical and emotional health when formulating a treatment plan, and I work to provide practical strategies to help both the individual and their family.

The therapeutic process is more than empathic listening and supportive talk. It is a creative vehicle of self-realization, empowerment and change.

Does anxiety feel like it is hard to manage? Whether it's anxiety about your relationship, your sex life, your job, your social life, or your life in general, the symptoms are all too regular and familiar: racing heart, stomach churning, and feeling like you can't breathe just to name a few. If only you could just wish the anxiety away with logic. Your friends or partner tell you to just relax and stop overthinking, but you can't! Your mind won't listen. No matter how hard you try, you just can't get your mind to stop.

I have ample experience working with Children and adolescents with multiple psychological and behavioral issues; including ADHD, ODD, OCD, conduct problems, Autistic spectrum disorders, depression, and sexual abuse (victimization and perpetration). Alongside, I work extensively with couples and families encountering numerous life difficulties. Furthermore, my experience reaches to adults dealing with life transition, depression, anxiety, and personality difficulties that inhibit life happiness and fullfillment. I am dedicated to my clientele and above all their functionality and happiness. My day-to-day moto is: "laugh love and live" and I strive to help my clients do just this!

I believe that we all struggle with trauma, and most mental health challenges stem from how one adapts to these experiences. I specialize in working with trauma, identifying how it is held in the body, the strategies we uphold as defense mechanisms, and how to negotiate with our inner self to move toward a healthy healing of mind and body. Coming from either a top down approach for those thinker types, or a bottom up approach for those feeler types, we will compassionately reconnect the mind and body, in order to achieve relief and greater connectivity to self and others.