I specialize in providing analytical psychotherapy & supervision. My hope is to help clients look inward and discover how to live a more meaningful life. Each of us can understand our individuation story, find the courage to go beyond limiting narratives, and make the shift to align with our true self. The second and third chapters of life are especially rich with potential for dreams, discovery and integration. Using an Analytical Psychology perspective, I offer individual and group psychotherapy, as well as clinical supervision, to facilitate deep transformation that continues long after our work is completed.

My ideal client is a verbal, insightful person who is ready to do the work to make changes in their thinking and behaving. Perhaps they are coming to counseling to improve a relationship, but ultimately each of us has to examine how to be a quality partner as well. They are open to doing homework in between sessions and reporting the results so we can understand its effectiveness and make needed adjustments.

People typically enter therapy at a time of emotional turmoil, pain, or feeling stuck. Beginning therapy can often feel vulnerable and intimidating. Because of this, I offer a free 15 minute consultation to see if I am a good fit for you. Helping people feel at ease in the therapy setting is one of my strengths. I work to listen to and understand you in order to help you identify the changes you want to make in your life. I have a gentle approach and work from a non-judgmental perspective.

What is it like to be you? If you are struggling or feel stuck in life you probably find it difficult to believe you can feel better. I get it. I have been there. I know what it feels like to be confused, uncertain, and scared about my life. As a therapist, it is my intention to guide you into knowing, appreciating, and trusting again what it is like to be you. This is how we re-connect with our wholeness, true nature, and confidence. Feeling better starts with just feeling. That is why therapy can sometimes be challenging. You are invited to step outside your comfort zone of habits or autopilot to live less constricted, more fully.

"We can do hard things". Contrary to how it is often portrayed in the media, therapy is not an easy thing. Therapy with me is an active and engaging process during which we collaboratively look at what is not working in your life and identify steps to improve it. As a therapist, I also believe in the power of community care and recognize that not all mental health concerns are individually determined (think global pandemics!). Thus, I encourage clients to tap into both internal and external resources throughout our work together. "The only way through is through." Let's get you through it (whatever "it" is) and back to living!

Life is difficult. It's common to find ourselves feeling stuck and lost. If you're living a life that is different than the one you hoped for and you're motivated to make changes, then let's work together. Let's do the difficult work of moving towards suffering to increase your freedom in pursuing what you want for yourself. Let's get to a place of feeling grounded and living meaningfully - even in moments of pain.

Everyone has struggles or hurdles presented in their lives that sometimes will require an objective opinion. I work collaboratively with people to look at issues from a different perspective. Reaching out to someone for the first time takes tremendous strength of character and courage. I am passionate about this work and it is an honor and pleasure to work with clients who are invested in making positive changes in their lives. I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and private practitioner who has over 25 years of experience working with children, families, couples, and individuals in the Cheyenne area.

Life’s struggles can leave us feeling lost or confused. Difficulties in relationships can make us feel trapped, hurt, or scared. However, even when things feel hopeless, we all have the potential to grow and find a new direction— individually and in our relationships. I work with individuals and couples seeking to overcome stress, anxiety, and depression in order to get something more out of life. I’ll help you tap into your natural ability to move through challenges to a more balanced and fulfilling way of living.

Are you feeling stuck in a complicated family or work situation? If you've tried various ways to leave or change the relationships in these settings, it may help to learn more about the way a system influences the behavior, feelings, and well-being of everyone involved. My specialty is dealing with complexity as it affects individuals in larger social systems. In complex systems every individual plays a role in the family drama. The roles can't be easily changed without outside coaching because everyone tries to keep the status quo by doing more of what they usually do.

KIDSTUFF Child & Family Counseling, P.C. specializes in helping kids and families navigate life's challenges and improve overall wellness. We help kids AND ADULTS overcome a variety of issues including family conflict, domestic violence, divorce, blended families, academic and social challenges, bullying, addiction (including gaming,) low self esteem, AD/HD, Depression, Anxiety, PTSD and much more. Our LICENSED counselors have many years of experience providing evidence- based techniques including expressive therapies like art, music, play and trauma-informed yoga therapy.

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Life is difficult. There is always unfinished business from the past. We adapt to life's demands the best we can as children, developing core characterological traits and styles. Sometimes these patterns of coping with the world are not as adaptive as they could be. We find ourselves repeatedly drawn to people who are not good for us. We fear abandonment and isolation and desperately cling to the familiar even though we know, deep down inside, that it is destroying us. We develop rigid styles of responding that often prevent us from enjoying life.

Making a change in life is not always easy, but also not impossible. Gain insight and make lasting changes in your life in an encouraging, safe, and supportive environment. Learn to develop the confidence and skills to be a happy, healthy, and successful individual. My background includes working with anxiety, depression, attention/focus issues, motivation, trauma, life transitions, relationships, stress management, family system issues, and substance abuse. Using a relational and solution-focused approach, I provide support and strategies individualized for your needs.

Welcome. It takes courage to make it even this far in the journey of knowing your story better. This adventure called life is filled with excitement, pain, joy, and disappointment. It’s all wrapped up together in a complex, multi-layered tangle. Making sense of it all is tough work to be sure. However, it’s in this deep work, this engaging of your story that true, lasting change occurs. The journey is worth it. In a warm, safe environment, we’ll explore your past experiences and relationships to better understand the patterns and plots that make up your story. In doing so we’ll learn about who you are and what makes you feel alive.

*BETTER MEN, HUSBANDS & DADS* Sometimes it can feel like you've failed or haven't lived up to your loved ones (or even your own) expectations. Vulnerability can be hard, and because you're used to being the one to "fix" things, it seems there's no one who can understand or help you. You may not know what direction it takes to become the husband or father that you need to be, or maybe you know the direction but simply can't make it happen. You might feel alone, defeated, overwhelmed and just want to figure out how to make things better now.

Each person has the ability to heal themselves with their own wisdom, but, we often lose sight of this wisdom and feel that we aren't enough. Together, our work is aimed at bringing you to a place where you are confident in who you are and to trust yourself. In addition to talk therapy aimed at emotional healing and building self-esteem, I also practice sexual therapy as people often struggle with accessing healthy sexual identity due to poor models of sexual identity development available to them. Furthermore, I am consciously working toward helping women re-access the innate power and wisdom through feminist based counseling.

"The only way out is through." I am committed to helping my clients discover what it means to truly live fully -- to experience healing in relationships, to understand their strength, to embrace their uniquenesses and to live a life of wholeness and adventure. At the core, I believe that we are relational beings, and while relationships are often the primary sources of our pain, they are also the primary conduits to our healing. Together we will find ways THROUGH the pain and into freedom. There is too much LIFE to be lived...too much adventure to be had...

One of the greatest predictors of therapeutic success is a good match between therapist and client. My therapeutic approach is to be gently direct and focuses on you living the truth of who you are. I have no agenda about what your truth is or judgment of how it's become clouded. I am, however, interested in supporting you to live fully. I facilitate awareness through various means: body awareness, blockages to choice, personality, relationships, and teaching mindfulness practices. Clients who hold responsibility have the fuel to catalyze change, and I am ready to work with you.

"We cannot undo our old mistakes or their consequences any more than we can erase old wounds that we have both suffered and inflicted, but through the power that memory gives us of thinking, feeling, imagining our way back through time we can at long last finally finish with the past in the sense of removing its power to hurt us and other people and to stunt our growth as human beings." This quote, by Frederick Buechner, speaks to what therapy can unearth. We can't "undo our mistakes" or "erase old wounds." We can live free, healed, courageous lives.