Life Coaching Therapists in Great Barrington, MA

I coach adults who want to resolve old patterns of self-sabotage in order to stop spinning their wheels and move forward in their lives. I specialize in helping Highly Sensitive individuals create a more supportive inner environment while learning to communicate more effectively with others. I help artists and other creative people overcome fear of visibility, enhance their productivity and become more self-expressive. My coaching is brief, deep, and gently transformative.

Compassionate Family & Parenting Coach - creating together the design tools to transform isolation, addictions, & relationships with the world. Specializing with teens & young adults. I am a guide to an absolute place in your inner world - therefore moving beyond stuck-ness, anxiety & addiction. You may be a parent struggling with your teen’s screen or gaming addiction with no solution. Left alone, it could take years - if ever – to move to a wonder & zest for life . We build Life Path Design Tools to pull you from the difficult sinking spiraling of behaviors.

I can help you find peaceful solutions to challenges you face. My holistic approach welcomes your thoughts, body sensations, emotions, and spiritual beliefs. From the foundation of a trusting and respectful relationship, we customize treatment to your needs. Depending on our focus, I integrate tools from cutting edge models of therapy including Internal Family Systems Therapy, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, EMDR, and mindfulness. My style is practical, compassionate, and interactive. I know that entering therapy takes courage. I believe deeply in your capacity to heal. As your therapist/guide I am committed to your healing and manifesting the life you want.

SHIFT HAPPENS. You cannot stop the changing tide . Follow your passion, change your career, rebuild self-esteem, strengthen relationships, control addiction, delete stress, find balance in your life . You need a therapist who has first hand experience and empathic approach to make you successful. There is no SINGLE method that works for all people. I focus on the individual needs and responses of my clients to ensure that they are free of cookie-cutter therapeutic approaches or psyhchobabble, where the individual always counts first. You owe it to yourself to experience the strength you can gain from the right guide.

Do you want to transform your life ? Do you long to live in a way that’s more vivid, poignant and meaningful? Are you hungry for an authentic connection with others? It’s the key operating systems that run us when we are making dinner, interacting with our family and tying our shoes. Perhaps you are ready for some new ones? Sometimes it takes life falling apart for us to become ready to seek a new path. You need courage to let go of what no longer works and that’s where I can help. I use a lens of core vulnerability to help people understand the role of defense mechanisms and a mindfulness-based approach.

My psychotherapy practice is dedicated to helping people overcome difficulties in managing troubling emotions, dysfunctional behaviors, or problems in career, relationship, or life transition. Working primarily in short-term cognitive behavioral models, trouble areas are defined and broken down. Clients are actively encouraged to collaborate on developing new, healthier perspectives, and to generate and practice effective coping strategies and skills. Foundations in psychodynamic and developmental theory, neuroscience, as well as eastern philosophy and mindfulness practice often inform and shape the course of work.

In 35 years working as a psychologist, I’ve been fortunate to help many individuals, couples and families through challenging moments in their lives. I’ve come to appreciate the myriad ways my clients draw on their strengths to face adversity and grow through it. Through our creative collaboration, they understand themselves more deeply and take positive steps toward achieving their goals. In the context of a trusting, collaborative relationship, I am active and interactive, asking thought-provoking questions, listening carefully, reflecting, making suggestions and providing support.

I provide coaching and support for emerging and middle adults in the areas of executive functioning, life skills, social skills, peer relationships, and empathy development. I work with people - neurodiverse, neurotypical, and in between - whose needs range from dealing with the organizational realities of life today, to more significant challenges with abstract thinking, priority-setting, self-activation, and goal-task conceptualization.

Welcome and thank you for inquiring about counseling services. I am currently full, but please feel free to inquire about options. Please refer to the list of insurance carriers I accept prior to emailing for a consultation. I can only see people virtually who are located in MA.

What had seemed like the safest place and time ever now feels uncertain and dangerous. Suddenly, we are isolated from one another, unprepared for the full impact of dealing with an unseen enemy. These circumstances can revive and compound any emotional and interpersonal issues you may have.