Therapists in Central Point, OR

Life can feel overwhelming when we are experiencing depression, anxiety, or a trauma that has impacted every part of us. It can feel like it's hard to get out of bed, it's impacting your relationships, or gets in the way of doing the things that make you happy. Are you wanting to experience a sense of peace and understanding about your experience and how it may impact how you are showing up in the world? We can find a new sense of being in the world as we explore the inner workings and external impact of these experiences to transform it into something new.

I am a Licensed Professional Counselor and work with a delightful therapy dog, Piper. With so much happening in the world and our own "backyard" it can fee overwhelming. I offer Telehealth services if indicated and most insurance providers are making this easier during this time of high stress and uncertainty. Utilizing a collaborative, client centered approach, I am here to provide support, feedback, education, and a safe environment for you to make the change you wish to achieve.

As a therapist who solely works with women, I am keenly aware of the unique needs that evolve during each phase of our lives. I realize that as we encounter our own personal ups and downs, our family, work/finances, relationships, activities, goals, and emotions often feel the effects and create fresh challenges as well. Truly being listened to by another person is precious and often uncommon. When it happens, we feel its power through understanding and respect. Once this takes place, amazing things happen...authentic communication, freedom from negative thoughts, healing, contentment, courage, and strategies for growth.

Have you experienced trauma, abuse, neglect, abandonment, divorce, loss, depression or anxiety? Do you want to increase your effectiveness, experience your authentic self, improve relationships or overall life happiness? I work to provide a safe and supportive relationship to honor your thoughts and feelings and help you work toward the changes you’d like to make in your life within the therapeutic relationship. I can help you work toward your goals whether they be communication, setting boundaries, developing healthier ways of coping or to make changes in self and self esteem, relationships, career or life style.

My ideal client is looking for positive change, be it in relationship with self or with others. Change occurs naturally and powerfully when, in the safety and comfort of my office, the here-and-now is fully understood and experienced. I will sit with you in a respectful and deeply compassionate atmosphere, and share your journey towards a more satisfying life. With children and teens I use play, sandtray, and art therapies to build a relationship of trust and warmth where difficulties are expressed, and where children find ways to overcome their challenges, thereby reclaiming their mastery of their lives.

Want to feel better? Want help sorting through what is going on in because of changes in your life: divorce, trauma, loss, transitions like having a baby or graduating? I have been helping people cope with life's slings and arrows for thirty years. I am empathic and I have worked in a variety of clinical settings from a community mental health to a military hospital, from drug and alcohol counseling to a rape crisis center.

I entered the counseling field because I like people and have faith in their resilience and capacity for growth -- emotionally, psychologically and spiritually. I see my therapist role as one who comes alongside you, the client, to provide a safe, non-judgmental, caring environment in which you access the wisdom of your best self. I listen, ask questions, encourage you toward your goals, offer suggestions, and gently confront habits or ways of thinking that may be keeping you from greater happiness. When it seems appropriate, I employ my sense of humor, believing -- like Reader's Digest -- that laughter really is great medicine.