With compassion and understanding, I work to create a safe and trusting environment for individuals to share their inner most thoughts and feelings.  I will also meet each individual where they are in life and to help them build on their strengths and attain the personal growth the they are committed to accomplishing. As a therapist uniquely trained to listen in depth, I offer my warm, thoughtful style and more then 15 years of experience to listen with patience, understanding and insight.  If you are wanting more than just listening and understanding, you maybe seeking therapy because today's troubles express how something's not working for you.  My psychodynamic approach considers your current circumstance, past history, feelings and motivations, dreams and disappointments. In short, you as a whole person. By looking at you as a whole person, I can help you develop your self understanding and acceptance so that you can be more open of your strengths, accepting of your limitations, capable of a living a fuller life and confident about today.

If you are feeling anxious, depressed, stuck, overwhelmed or just ready to make some changes in your life and relationships, but not sure how, therapy can help. Together, we can figure out what might be keeping you from living your life fully. As an experienced therapist, I will work with you to achieve your goals and restore a sense of joy in life.

I primarily practice Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), an evidence-based treatment rooted in the idea that many of our normal, common-sense attempts to change or eliminate unwanted thoughts and feelings actually increase our suffering, keep us stuck, and prevent us from fully living. I provide a safe and compassionate space in which to learn to respond to these difficult experiences in new ways that free you up to do what you care about most deeply. We will explore your internal and external worlds, clarify your values and goals, and learn practical skills to help you pursue them.

It's very important to me that my clients feel welcome and safe enough to show up exactly as they are. I do my best to attend to my clients in a fully present and available way so that I can deeply witness, listen, and respond to them with clarity, openness, non-judgment, and compassion. I believe that psychotherapy can be a powerful vehicle for self-discovery, self-acceptance, and transformation. I draw on my own experiences of joy and suffering to be with my clients in a human way, and welcome all those who seek a path of healing.

I am a highly experienced therapist who helps individuals and couples address challenges, enrich relationships and achieve deep insights into their personality and their emotions. My clients find that I offer a pragmatic, intelligent and empathetic response to their concerns. I use evidence-based therapy that is adapted to individual needs and focused on meaningful change. Unlike larger clinics, I provide direct, responsive communication and flexible scheduling.

Do you want to be more successful in your relationships, have higher self-esteem, and feel less anxious? Have you lost pleasure in everyday activities that used to bring you joy? I can help you overcome the challenges you are facing. Together, we will evaluate your life in a holistic way that allows for positive change.

My approach to psychotherapy is focused on building a strong and collaborative relationship with you, the client, working with you to provide immediate symptom relief and make sustainable change. My style is warm, curious, and engaged. I provide a safe and confidential space for you to share your story. I am influenced by the psychodynamic tradition, focusing on how you relate to yourself and others. As you begin to feel understood, accepted, and more deeply known in therapy, a trusting therapeutic relationship develops. This results in greater self-understanding and leads to change, including immediate symptom relief and longer-term transformation.

Life presents many challenges. We can feel isolated in how we deal with different struggles. Sudden life changes, traumatic events, or dealing with underlying mental health can make these things a lot harder to work through. Trauma is something many of us have experienced but haven’t identified. Engaging in therapy can help identify and process through those things that we feel have impacted our lives in different ways. Other struggles can arise from being a student, changes in work, relationship issues, family issues, multicultural concerns and so much more. Engaging in therapy can help with finding support and insight.

I work with individuals facing a variety of challenges in life and am consistently impressed with their ability to seek out help and health. My approach is nonjudgmental, I believe in the strengths you already have while working toward the strengths you want to achieve. I integrate DBT theory and skills into my practice with a belief in mindfulness as a therapeutic tool. I take great care in my approach as a respectful and caring person while being direct and to the point to be as helpful as possible in your journey; it is your life after all.

My practice operates from the premise that people are doing the best they can under the circumstances and that people have strengths, coping skills, and resilience that they are often unaware of. Life challenges happen to everyone. These challenges come in the form of relationships, physical & mental health, and unexpected experiences that overwhelm our ability to cope. It is often the attempted solutions to those challenges that then become the problems. My job is to guide and support the individual/couple/family in clarifying the impact of life's challenges so that workable solutions are found, to everyone's benefit.

I practice sex therapy, individual therapy, and couples therapy in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I enjoy helping clients ages 13-65 with issues in individual mental health, sex and sexuality, relationships, and family dynamics. Using a sex-positive approach, I help people with sexual concerns or interests including sexual pain, desire and arousal issues, out of control sexual behavior, difficulty with orgasm and ejaculation, recovering healthy sexuality after trauma, polyamory, swinging, kink, gender and orientation discovery, and concerns over pornography usage. Cultural humility and racial justice are very important to me.

Thank for finding your way to my page. Chances are, no matter what your specific concern, you arrived here because you want to feel better, and you want important relationships in your life to work better. My goal is to facilitate your capacity to do both, as I have done with many individuals, couples and families over the past 30 years. Living a whole life, for a whole lifetime, is both worthy of our effort and possible. My practice is faith-, culture- and sexual orientation-friendly. Come as you are, we will utilize every resource to undo the knots and reweave the fabric of your life in more satisfying ways. Online capacity.

Respect, Integrity, Compassion, and Empowerment. These are the values that guide my own life as well as my therapy style. I am interested in assisting you to find the answers that are right for you. I would enjoy working with you individually or as part of a couple or family. My specialties include parent-child, marital, and other relationship issues. I support family preservation whenever possible. My experience also includes anger management, depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorders, grief, and medical issues such as chronic illnesses, insomnia, physical disability, chronic pain, and caregiver stress.

I am a clinical psychologist licensed for independent practice in the State of Wisconsin. My office is conveniently located in Downtown Milwaukee, and I work primarily with adult individuals who are interested in psychotherapy. I also have affiliations with nurse practitioners within our clinic for those who may be interested in medication as a treatment option to supplement their therapy.

Taking care of your mental well-being can be challenging in the current circumstances and psychotherapy is a great resource to do so. I help individuals, couples, and families by understanding their unique contexts and working collaboratively to enable them to reach their desired goals .

I believe that people not only want, but also need, someone to listen to them. I welcome the opportunity to develop a therapeutic relationship with individuals and couples to guide them from hope to healing.

The therapeutic relationship is the foundation for healing. I have a genuine desire to get to know your story and to help you identify your capacity for resilience and increased happiness. As a Board-Certified Art Therapist, I cultivate an environment where clients feel safe to explore their feelings through a variety of expressive modalities.

Tired of enduring a difficult life, career or relationship? Looking for practical, out-of-the-box solutions for anxiety, depression, and the life circumstances that cause them? Tried therapy before with disappointing results? For 35 years, I have been augmenting traditional therapeutic methods with a variety of techniques, including EMDR Therapy, CRM Therapy, heart rate variability training (Heartmath), body centered approaches, mindfulness training, hypnosis, and ego-state interventions, to facilitate deep internal changes. These interventions take place within the context of a safe, non-judgmental, and supportive environment. My therapeutic style is interactive, engaging, and collaborative.

Welcome! I believe psychotherapy is a journey of self-discovery and self-acceptance. I also believe it is a collaborative relationship that is built on trust. My work combines innovative techniques with a broad assortment of traditional approaches. My personal approach to therapy is holistic, direct, individualized and interactive. I rely on strong empathetic skills to help clients draw on internal resources to affect purposeful change. It is my belief that the answers lie within and that my job is to facilitate a safe environment and support the emergence of non-judgmental awareness, which enables change to come.

Seeking professional help takes courage & self awareness. You recognize your need to delve deeper, wanting to address your concerns so that you’re able to heal. You want to show up as the highest version of yourself. Living a life of quality is the ultimate goal.