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Are you silently suffering by not using your voice? My therapeutic approach is to focus on helping you find the strength to use this voice and understand how anxiety might be getting in the way from you having the life that you want. Honoring your truth is the path to healing and creating healthy relationships. I will work with you to help reduce negative "self-talk" and better understand how anger, shame and guilt can actually help guide you to your authentic, more fulfilled self. Additionally, I have many years of experience in working with clients around the US and the globe via Tele-therapy.

My focus is on helping adults, families, and children in overcoming personal and relational barriers using a collaborative approach and creative expression. I encourage your own capacity to heal within the framework of a safe and trusting therapeutic environment, integrating psychodynamic, somatic, and Internal Family Systems-based interventions as well as the artistic process. In my work with families and children, my goal is to support secure, healthy attachments and foster communication, no matter what has come in the way.

If you are looking for a space where you are safe to be yourself, then you have come to the right place. My goal is to provide a place where we can speak openly and honestly with no fear of judgement. When we meet, you will have the professional support of someone who is grounded and can relate to a variety of struggles. Even though you may be feeling alone, unsupported or misunderstood, know that I will be here to help you through this difficult period.

I work with couples to help clarify their interests, examine their expectations, and review their relationship in a supportive setting. We explore solutions to help reinvigorate the admiration, affection and respect that brought you together in the first place. Most relationships have all the positive ingredients necessary for the long haul, but changing circumstances can cloud the good feelings that keep healthy partnerships humming along. I am dedicated to helping you reset your lives and make plans for a happier future. My values support diversity, gender equality, and fairness in all walks of life.

You may feel lonely, sad or depressed, and want to feel better, more energized, more connected to people. Or you may have difficulty sleeping, feel anxious, fearful about facing responsibilities at work, and wish to be more relaxed and confident. You may experience difficulties in your relationships with family or friends and would like to improve those connections. Some of you may have had painful life experiences and wish you could talk to someone who could help you heal the emotional wounds.

Feeling stressed? Overwhelmed? Not satisfied with your relationship? Tired of having the same arguments? Want to finally move forward and make some changes? For couples and families, I will help you resolve conflicts and communicate more effectively. We can work on issues such as setting clearer boundaries, restoring trust and dealing with separation/divorce. For teens: Clashing with family members? Friend stress? School challenges? As a family therapist, I bring years of experience working with young people. I help find ways to feel less anxious, upset, frustrated.

During the Corona virus pandemic I provide tele-mental health services for individual, group, children and family services. I run many groups especially for those helping others at this difficult time. Do you feel controlled by your anxiety? Does your anxiety get triggered easily and quickly especially especially at this time? I can help you understand what triggers your your anxiety and makes it feel so insurmountable. Together we'll work on reducing the impact of your triggers and ultimately your anxiety, call or email me now so we can get started right away.

With evening and weekend hours available, I aim to make help accessible to my clients. And with over 35 year of work in the field, I bring that deep experience and wisdom to the work. I feel very effective working with clients on many issues: COUPLES: Infidelity, loss of emotional/intimate closeness, communication problems, anger issues, and parenting. FAMILIES: blended family issues, adoption/fostercare, caregiving decisions, substance abuse concerns. INDIVIDUAL: Anxiety, substance abuse, recovery and relapse prevention, self-esteem, anger management, trauma and its aftermath, depression, relationship issues, adoption issues.

Birth and motherhood are meant to be addictive. Yet so many of us feel anxious in pregnancy, experience birth trauma and struggle postpartum. In a culture where mothers are not supported, and the system prioritizes "safety" above all, women are often left stuck in survival stress after birth of their child. But please know that healing, love, and joy is available for you. Whether you wish to process and integrate your birth experience, prepare for the transition to the new role, or address your hopes and needs in pregnancy or postpartum, I am here to walk alongside and hold space for you as you navigate the perinatal journey.

I want to help each of my clients find a sense of health - emotionally, physically, and sexually. Let's work together to sort through the things causing disruption in your everyday life including intimate relationships, sexuality, or general life transitions (starting or ending a relationship, coming out, exploring non-traditional relationships, etc.) I am committed to helping you move through anxiety, depression, family of origin issues, and shame in order to help you increase connections with yourself and your community.

My mission is to be of help to people with a variety of goals: to live well, to create oneself, to understand more deeply and grow, and to cultivate the kinds of relationships that give life meaning and joy. A therapeutic partnership allows us to explore our patterns of living—of thinking, relating, communicating and behaving—and remake them to make life more satisfying.

I am a compassionate and empathetic Clinical Licensed Mental Health Counselor in New York State who has been practicing since 2019. I obtained my Master’s Degree from State University of New York at New Paltz. My clinical approach involves validating and supporting my clients to create the change that is needed in their lives to be more positive and successful!

When someone in a relationship is an addict, unhealthy role shifts and power imbalances take hold. Once the substance abuser enters recovery, things begin to re-balance, and this power redistribution has potential for new problems. Couples and family treatment can help both partners or family members to work together to adapt to the challenges posed during this transition back to a fully-functioning relationships. Providing a safe therapeutic environment, I assist in navigating the challenges that face partners or family members once the addict enters recovery, including how to best to assist the recovering person and address life changes for loved ones.

I provide Body/Mind/Spirit Trauma Resolution tx that facilitates emotional & physiological healing, empowering clients to learn self compassion as they rewrite their life narrative. We often move through our old stories that influence our present. As an experienced practitioner of Somatic Experiencing (SE), and Psychodrama, I use body based action methods to bring clients into the heart of their stories. SE brings awareness to the connection between sensations and affect to free up the tangles in the nervous system caused by traumatic events that can result in living out of alignment with our true nature.

Our reactions to the world are influenced by our experiences. For me it’s meant transitioning from city life in Brooklyn & NYC to quieter moves upstate in the Hudson Valley; it’s meant growing from a young adult into family life & active mother of 3; and changing gears to be able to support and treat youngsters and adults in a way that best serves each of them. I've spent most of my career servicing children, teens and their families in emotional, behavioral, academic & psychiatric capacities. I've supported kids and teens through mental illness, trauma, developmental delays, learning issues,

During different life stages and times of stress, you may face a range of difficulties including anxiety, depression, family troubles or relationship difficulties. I offer a supportive, respectful and collaborative environment in which clients can feel safe and understood, gain increased insight and awareness, and develop healthier ways of coping and connecting with others. While each client's goals are unique, symptom relief is paramount in my work. I am committed to assisting my clients in making changes that lead to happier, more satisfying lives.

If you are seeking to regain who you once were, uncover who you know you could be, become who you want to be, build on who you already are, or all the above, we can do that together. Life is something that just is; we are what happens in it. I work with you to reclaim what may seem out of your control, to step back into the driver's seat of your own life. We all struggle at times and it is not about how strong or weak we are, but how much support we have.

I can assist you to explore what keeps you stuck and to make long-term changes in your life. Through the process we can help you improve your relationships, deal with parenting issues, improve your mood, decrease fears and reach your life goals. I am trained in both psychodynamic interpersonal therapy and short-term modalities. I believe in working on the integration of physical health (diet, exercise, sleep, medical problems) to improve mental health. I will assist you to identify your health goals and make lifestyle changes.

Has parenting become a battleground of wills, layered with guilt and tears? Are you tired of fighting every morning before school, at every meal and/or every night at bedtime? Are you ready for relief? Having over 20 years of experience in the field of social-emotional development of children, I offer Parent Coaching and Support with a compassionate and empathetic approach that encourages clients to embrace all aspects of being human. Each person in the home is impacting one another, and each relationship is impacting the whole family, so my approach holistically looks at the dynamic of all these relationships.