I am versatile and enjoy working with people from different backgrounds, and will help tailor a treatment to fit your specific needs and lifestyle. While you are in charge of identifying your goals for therapy, I will challenge you to think differently and try new strategies to reach them.

“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.” I have worked as a child clincal psychologist since 2011. Prior to this I received my master’s in clinical health psychology. I have had wonderful opportunities to work in numerous settings to help children and families. I have a vast amount of clinical experience with a range of difficulties including anxiety, depression, and behavioral challenges. In addition to my clinical work, I conduct clinical training for other child therapists as well as serving as a consultant to early childhood providers.

In my practice, I look to build a strong and trusting rapport with clients. We are then able to work together on identifying potential sources of life stressors as well as strengths. In exploring these areas, clients are then able to identify and modify previous patterns of behavior in order to achieve their full potential personally, academically, and/or vocationally.

I specialize in addiction and most mental health / emotional issues such as depression, anxiety, bi-polar disorder, adolescent issues, coping with stress, compulsive behaviors, transitions such as retirement, and self esteem. I use Mindfullness, Cognitive Therapy (CBT and DBT) primarily but I'm comfortable in several modalities and will utilize them as appropriate. I am an interactive therapist and I'm willing to give an opinion. I am particularly good with clients who are dually diagnosed (addiction and mental health).

As Therapist and Life Coach, I am integrally connected to the burgeoning Science of Positive Psychology, which is the scientific study of what enables people and communities to thrive. My approach emphasizes the uniqueness and potential of each individual. I dwell in the possibility for positive change. I am committed to the use of tools which make it possible for you to recognize, appreciate and utilize your signature character strengths (you at your best) to assist you with any perceived problems, limitations and areas of healing, thereby opening the door for you to set your intention toward the realm of your possibility.

Michelle is a skilled facilitator in her work with dysfunctional family dynamics. She supports individuals, couples, children, and adolescents facing struggles that hinder them from long-lasting healing. Her approach is holistic. She examines the social, physical, mental, emotional, sexual, and spiritual well being of each individual. Her integrated treatment features reliable scientific theory coupled with sound theology.

My approach to therapy is first to fully understand your difficulties and then work with you to find the best ways to make changes that promote growth and personal fulfillment. I believe that it is crucial for you to feel that therapy is a safe space where together we can explore, examine, and be curious about your experiences and your relationships with other people. In my years of practicing, I have found that many distressing symptoms (such as anxiety and depression) often disappear when people have the opportunity to look closely at their relationships with others.

I enjoy working with children and families to address their unique circumstances and challenges. I work with children of all ages, from early childhood through adolescence. I enjoy supporting parents as they manage the ups and downs of parenting children of all ages. I work from a stregnths-based perspective and believe that client motivation to participate actively in therapy is a great indicator of success. I utilize evidence-based treatments including cognitive-behavioral therapy, trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy, and Parent-Child Interaction Therapy to treat anxiety, depression, stress, and challenging behavior.

Raising children and being married can be the most wonderful, yet humbling things in life. Over the past 25 years I have worked with hundreds of families and couples to help you customize a roadmap of change that can help you with hope and practical strategies to decrease conflict, set limits, restore nurturance, and maneuver the difficulties of being a parent, married or divorced. Helping people make change and heal from hurt is my life's passion and finding a therapist that is a good fit with the right expertise can be difficult! Call me to see if I can help.

It takes courage to seek outside assistance. I offer an attentive, personal, and supportive environment and approach to behavioral health treatment. I have expertise in working with children and adolescents, and the people in their lives. My approach tends to be short-term and solution-focused.

I specialize in providing Psychological evaluations, Pre-Surgical evaluations, ADHD, Behavioral, and other assessments. Maybe you're smart, but unorganized and can't focus. Perhaps you procrastinate and rush to meet deadlines; sometimes successfully, but often not. Although you love your partner, you're accused of being uninterested and inattentive. Maybe the concern is your child's school problems or behaviors. Have you or your child been diagnosed with many different disorders and, despite therapy, nothing works? Has your therapist or prescriber recommended testing? Call to find out how testing may be an appropriate next step.

'Make not your thoughts your prisons' (Shakespeare). Anxiety, depression and relationship difficulties often get in the way of being at our best. Problems concerning anger, assertiveness, sexuality, spirituality and finding one's way in life are also more frequent than many realize. To be unshackled from these limiting psychological factors is to be quickened to growth and awakened to live out one's unique idiom. This results in more joyful aliveness, inspiration, and peace -- magnifying the difference you make in your life and in the world.

Life Can Be Difficult. Let Me Help. I understand that life can become difficult and stressful. And certain situations can be overwhelming. I am here to start you on the path to owning your success. Through questioning, discussing, goal setting and counseling, we will work together to assess your business or personal issue and work to resolve it. The road to owning your success takes dedication, hard work, education and change. I will help you experience success in dealing with personal issues, professional problems, relationship conflicts, disaster and trauma, and corporate mishaps.

I believe each person has the capacity to heal, change and grow, and has the right to be free of trauma and emotional suffering. My ideal client is a person who believes he/she is ready to change his/her life and open to exploring his/her capacity to change from within. I give each person a supportive place to discover his/her inner strengths and resources to build from the strongest foundation possible and help create the happiest and healthiest life.

I am a counselor with over 17 years of experience working with children, teens, families. There are many challenges that arise in a person's life, and oftentimes counseling can help a person to navigate those challenges in a healthy and productive way. I believe that with the proper support and guidance I can help my clients work toward behaviors and insights that will give them the tools to live the lives they want.

My approach to therapy is individualized and conversational, aimed at developing a respectful atmosphere in which troubling feelings, thoughts, and actions can be shared, reconsidered, and understood from a new perspective, hopefully with a sense of expanded choice, options, and decisions. Whether and how to change oneself can be explored from a pragmatic, step-by-step framework to a more abstract and emotional level. Usually both emotion and action come into play in any attempt to improve the quality of one's life and depend in part upon a personal connection between my client and myself that encourages effort and hopefulness.

*Offering videoconferencing and telephone appointments. Evening appointments are available.* At times in our lives, we all need help. I'm here to make this an easier process. If you are looking to be treated as an individual and not another "patient" or "number", I offer a caring, non-judgmental, open-minded and experienced approach. My aim is to provide counseling that is person-centered, strength based and tailored to your needs.

Looking for the "right" therapist can be a daunting task. It might be helpful to know, I felt it was necessary to first earn the right to accompany others on their personal psychological journeys by embarking on the same psychological journey, on which, I would be inviting and accompanying my clients. In addition to my formal education, it is by continuing on my own therapeutic journey, that has afforded me a deep comfort level, degree of understanding and respect of this process, regardless of what in particular finds you seeking support. Additionally, I am a holistic practitioner, using both eastern/western approaches.

I understand how hard it is to sort through a list of names to find someone with whom you are comfortable talking. Clients often tell me that they felt at ease in our first phone contact. I love what I do; helping individuals and families understand and learn healthy ways to cope with issues like depression, anxiety, troubled relationships, & loss, and to make lasting changes in their personal lives. So many people feel overwhelmed and don't know where or how to start and it can be as simple as calling to set up the first appointment.

With a special interest in anxiety and depression spectrum disorders, I help clients explore how environmental factors (family, gender roles, work, ethnicity, economic situation, etc.) shape our adaptive and maladaptive coping mechanisms and patterns of response. Instead of focusing on "pathology" I explore clients' strengths and skills they already have to effect positive changes in their functioning and sense of well-being.