MY SPECIALTIES
INDIVIDUAL THERAPY
This means that you will meet with me by yourself. We will focus on your issues/concerns, goals, questions, and develop a plan together to improve your life. My role is to listen, reflect, provide perspectives, and help you find the answers within yourself.
Therapy can take time; it starts with feeling safe with your therapist, feeling connected, and not judged. When you meet with me, you can decide not to meet again- it's totally okay. Sometimes it takes seeing multiple therapists to find the right one. There is a level of trust that you will want to feel so you can process trauma, anxiety, anger, and any unspoken guilt or shame you may be carrying with you for days to decades.
You and I will work together using various homework assignments and techniques during sessions to help you gain confidence in yourself to make the necessary changes for your personal growth and healing.
Some sessions will be lighthearted, while some, many, will be heavy. I am here to support you- to help you ride the weather the storm.
DEPRESSION SUPPORT
Depression can be damaging to the body and mind over time. Understanding what causes one's depression and finding ways to manage or recover from it is the goal. Sometimes it requires short-term or long-term medication, and that's okay, if you are comfortable with it. My role is to introduce you to seeing what your strengths and accomplishments are, challenging and changing negative self-talk, building a social support, and finding a sense of purpose in life.
ADDICTION THERAPY
Due to various biological, psychological, environmental, and physical manifestations, sometimes people use various substances and engage in harmful or dangerous behaviors. My role is to help clients identify how/why they became habituated, what their goals are, and using various therapy techniques, develop and implement a plan to manage their lives differently.
STRESS & TRAUMA TREATMENT
RELATIONSHIP COUNSELING
Relationships can be complicated and understanding your role in creating or avoiding conflict is how I can be of assistance. I can provide skills in assertive communication, anger management, healthy boundaries, and referrals to family/couple's counseling as needed. I do not typically meet with the partner, except on a case-by case basis and only for 1-2 sessions.
People experience "stress" throughout their life. Trauma is an extreme form of stress stemming from a life-threatening event or events that can disrupt your daily life, causing problems with relationships, work, self-care, risk-taking behaviors, substance use or other addictive behaviors, and isolation. Trauma treatment requires the client to engage in understanding their history, environment, support system, belief system, challenging and changing their self-talk, and making changes to behaviors. Your "trauma" will not disappear from your mind, but with various therapies/techniques, you can find a way to manage your thoughts and feelings about it while moving past your storm.
PARENTING SUPPORT
In the context of parenting support, my role is to understand what factors within you are making it difficult to parent in a supportive manner and help you identify ways to make changes. Typically, I will not be meeting with family members.
FAMILY THERAPY
While I don't traditionally provide family therapy, three may be times when meeting with additional family members for 1-2 sessions may be helpful to get everyone on the same page. This would also include times when safety plans are created.
ANGER MANAGEMENT
Anger comes in many forms and is usually fueled by mistaken beliefs, resentments, hurt feelings, fear, and other negative thoughts. Much of this we are not aware of initially and my role is to help you become self-aware so you can choose to make changes to your thoughts, communication, feelings, and behaviors. I will also provide tools for you to help you manage your anger in the moment.
ANXIETY THERAPY
Changing your thoughts helps change your feelings and being stuck in your thoughts/feelings creates a spiraling effect, increasing anxiety. I have many tools that you can use to reduce your anxiety and change your thinking that will only require about 15 minutes out of your whole day.