Finding clarity, Finding you

In our initial appointment, I will conduct an assessment exploring various areas of your life based on your comfort level. This process helps me to explore core challenges and gain a deeper understanding of your personal history, allowing me to develop a personalized treatment plan. This step takes into account your desired outcomes, strengths, and factors that motivate healing and positive outcomes.

Based on your specific needs, I will provide practical strategies to reduce stress, anxiety, depression, insomnia, hopelessness, and/or self-defeating language. I will provide you with encouragement that promotes self-esteem, self-assurance, and peace of mind. Additionally, I will work with you to replace unhealthy coping skills and maladaptive behaviors with more effective coping mechanisms. Our sessions may also focus on gaining a sense of belonging, acceptance, and responsibility, or on learning how to communicate with yourself and others compassionately, to reduce interpersonal conflicts and impulsive decision-making.

Therapy is an excellent way to gain support as you navigate difficult changes in your personal and professional life, and we are committed to providing you with renewed senses of self grounded in peace.

Issues that may be addressed in individual therapy include:

  • Depression

  • Anxiety

  • Post Traumatic Stress

  • Phase of Life

  • ADHD

  • Trauma

  • Stress Management

  • Codependency

  • Conflict Resolution

  • Family Counseling

  • Boundaries

  • Parenting Support

  • Anger Management

  • Work and Career issues

Theoretical Orientation and Style of Therapy:

  • EMDR therapy is evidence-based brain therapy that uses the back-and-forth movements of the eyes to safely “reprocess” difficult memories.

    Trauma occurs as a result of any sudden, negative experience that leaves a lasting effect. Many people dealing with trauma, including multiple and complex traumas, have repeated unsuccessful experiences in trauma therapy. In fact, sometimes, general trauma therapy can make the person feel much worse by exposing them unnecessarily to their difficult memories without any sense of resolve. Trauma or a traumatic event can range from mild to very severe and can disrupt a person’s life in several ways, even impacting their physical health.

    Trauma may look like….

    Chronic depression and anxiety

    Avoidance of certain memories, people, or locations related to the event

    Difficulty sleeping and recurrent nightmares

    Hypervigilance or always being “on alert”

    Elevated heart rate & blood pressure

    Irritability & anger outbursts

    Fatigue and chronic sickness

    Difficulty feeling positive emotions or having emotional distress

    And the list goes on.

  • Learn the skills needed to deal with difficult feelings and navigate life and relationships more smoothly. You don’t have to feel alone in your suffering. Certain types of trauma or high-stress situations can leave you feeling angry or impulsive as you navigate your situation.

    Many people suffer from mental health or behavioral issues following a traumatic experience. Reduced stress tolerance, intense emotions, and other uncomfortable symptoms can cause issues in your relationships, your work or school, and even your health. Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) can help stabilize your feelings and behaviors as you learn essential skills and tools to cope with various issues, including:

    Anxiety

    Emotional abuse

    Relational trauma

    Depression

    PTSD

    Sexual trauma

    Gaslighting

    Childhood trauma

  • Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) can help you learn to identify your values, embrace your feelings, and more gracefully accept your circumstances so that you can build a better quality of life.

    If you’re afraid to process your trauma, you are not alone. Many people want to simply “forget” their past because it’s scary and overwhelming. The good news is that therapy can help you learn to embrace your feelings, which helps you move through them more fluidly. Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) can help address many issues, including:

    Betrayal trauma

    Anxiety

    Depression

    Childhood trauma

    Gaslighting

    Complex trauma

    PTSD

    Emotional abuse

    Sexual trauma

  • CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) is the ‘gold standard’ for treating mental health disorders and issues such as anxiety, social anxiety, panic attacks, OCD, and depression, but not everyone who benefits from CBT has to meet the above criteria.

    CBT can help anyone to handle stressful life circumstances better. CBT can also be utilized on its own or in combination with other therapies.

    Our cognitive behavioral therapist will help you examine the way your thoughts influence your feelings and behaviors and give you practical tools to help shift your perspective and learn how to better manage stressful life situations.

    You may be a good candidate for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy if you are:

    -Having negative thoughts often

    -Having anxious thoughts often

    -Struggling with anxiety disorders (general, social, phobias, and/or panic attacks)

    -Struggling with depression

    -Have had traumatic experiences

    -Experiencing compulsions such as OCD

    -Sleeping too much or too little

    -Experiencing a stressful life circumstance or transition

    -Wanting better coping skills to deal with life stressors, in general

  • Mindfulness-based therapies use meditation, relaxation, and awareness exercises to help focus on the present moment, aiming over time to experience day-to-day situations and stressors in non-reactionary ways.

    It teaches us to let feelings and thoughts arise and let them go. A person can approach these feelings from a non-judgmental, clear, and calmer state of mind. Mindfulness therapy helps a person sit with their feelings, bodily sensations, and thoughts so that they can take note of what they are.