Whether you're working on moving through a difficult time in your life, interested in learning skills for personal success, or looking for support in improving your relationships - I'm excited to help YOU get to where you want to be.
You came to the right place, and I look forward to supporting your journey.
What I Do
Individuals
Have you lost your smile? I would be honored to help you find it. Feeling misunderstood by people in our lives can be an isolating experience- often resulting in struggles with emotional regulation, anxiety, depression, or low self-esteem. Heck, it can even be a challenge to understand ourselves, sometimes! Feeling ‘stuck’ or somehow ‘behind’ in life might leave you questioning whether achieving satisfaction and emotional well-being are even realistic goals to have.
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Just because something is taking time doesn’t mean it’s not happening. If your current mindset isn’t working for YOU - it’s not working! Are you ready to get proactive about your happiness, start showing up for yourself, and step back into your power? Together, we will collaborate to discover and untangle limiting thought patterns, exploring how unmet emotional needs and faulty core beliefs might be stifling your ability to be your best self, right now.
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The good news is that self-understanding and transformational growth are not only possible but attainable and within reach. How would life be different if you stepped up as the main character in your story? If you are ready to take action to bridge the gap between where you are and where you want to be, call today for your free consultation. If you don’t prioritize your mental health, who do you think is going to? Let’s have a conversation.
Couples
People meet in all kinds of ways, and relationships come in many forms (dating relationships or marriages between partners from diverse cultural/spiritual/political/generational backgrounds). Whatever kind of relationship you have, ALL relationships require ongoing mutual effort and transparency in communication to grow and thrive into a mutually satisfying shared future.
Success of any relationship hinges upon you and your partner’s ability to successfully reconcile the inevitable differences in your personality, communication/attachment styles, cultural differences, and potentially generational differences (as seen in age-gap relationships) that left unchecked, may quietly dismantle the underlying emotional stability and overall satisfaction between you and your partner, with the potential to erode emotional/physical intimacy in your relationship. Relational success requires ongoing development and practice of mutual compassion, respect, curiosity, and collaborative problem-solving skills to support your successful management of any unexpected setbacks, challenging life events and/or relational ruptures (job loss, death of a parent, infidelity) by ensuring you possess the necessary tools to rebuild emotional/physical intimacy and protect the shared sense of emotional safety and trust in your relationship.
Couples therapy offers an opportunity to increase self-awareness and mutual understanding in your relationship with the support and guidance of a caring mental health professional. Through your mutual efforts and ongoing attitude of curiosity about each other, it is possible to reduce the frequency of conflicts, misunderstandings and to overcome the barriers to your relational success, as you learn communication skills and co-regulation strategies that really work.
In couples treatment, I will facilitate and guide you and your partner through ongoing exploratory conversations and therapeutic exercises aimed to increase your self-reflection and perspective-taking skills through a customized approach during your treatment experience, focusing sessions to address your relationship’s unique needs and challenges, promoting increasing intimacy, stability, and mutual understanding as you learn to work as a team to develop a secure attachment. There is always a learning curve in any relationship, as you learn to appreciate and be mindful of each other’s differences. In couples therapy, you and your partner will collaboratively co-create a solid relational foundation specifically designed to honor and protect your emotional connection, as you work to establish a mutually satisfying relationship that has the legs to go the distance.
If you and your partner are ready to “lock-in” and get proactive about enhancing understanding, trust, and emotional intimacy in your relationship, the support of a knowledgeable mental health professional can be a powerful catalyst for your growth and healing. It’s time to establish a viable plan to more consistently meet each other’s needs (and to get your own needs met, too)! Participation in Couples Therapy can be a powerful catalyst for transformational healing in your relationship, as you take actionable steps to bridge the gap between where you are and where you want to be, while learning new and meaningful ways to love each other better.
Call today to schedule your free 15-minute phone or video consultation call.
Teens
If your teen struggles with anxiety, depression, or appears frantic during efforts to acclimate to the structure of academic and social life at school, the support of a healing therapeutic alliance with a caring mental health professional reduces risk factors and boosts protective factors for teens; providing supportive guidance while teens learn techniques to develop a personal ‘toolbox’ of effective strategies to ‘level-up’ in their social, academic, and family lives by learning to regulate stress, increasing self-awareness, finding their sense of personal agency, and getting proactive while they learn to take responsibility for their own growth process.
Teen’s participation in therapy offers guidance and valuable tools teens can use to navigate challenges, providing valuable opportunities to experience personal success while learning to practice and use these crucial life skills in a safe and non-judgmental therapeutic space.
If your teen has trouble understanding, communicating, and regulating their big feelings, it can have a significant impact on the nature and quality of family interactions and relationships with parents/siblings- potentially contributing to the development of low self-esteem/low self-confidence and may result in painful feelings of confusion and/or hopelessness about the future as they begin to develop a sense of personal identity during this uniquely vulnerable period of their psychosocial development. It is normal for physical/emotional ‘growing pains’ and rapid hormonal changes during adolescence to undermine teens’ best efforts to face and address normative challenges of growing up with confidence and skill. Teens may feel unprepared to rise to the occasion, to face challenges, or to navigate difficulties healthily and effectively if they lack the necessary socio-emotional skillset to self-advocate and establish a healthy sense of balance in their social/academic/family lives. Teens may feel confused about how to help themselves (ex: teens may not know how to express their needs, or may feel uncomfortable asking for help- even when they really need it, or they may simply lack the tools necessary to communicate and enforce healthy personal boundaries with peers and others).
If your teen lacks the social safety net of having close friendships (or does not have any friends), engages in risky or self-harming behaviors, struggling in the areas of personal organization/skillful management of their time, or has difficulty taking initiative (completing chores or other personal responsibilities) at home, it can be discouraging and frustrating for both teens and parents. As a parent, it can be difficult to know how to best support your teens’ success and emotional well-being when emotions are running high, and things seem out of control. As insightful and well-intended as your parenting approach may be, the truth is, sometimes teens learn best when receiving guidance from someone who, to put it quite simply, isn’t YOU.
If you’re tired of watching your teen struggle and decided to seek the support of professional therapy services- I am thrilled to offer my heartfelt guidance and support. In therapy together, teens experience valuable opportunities to understand the importance of taking responsibility for their own learning and growth, to discover the value of self-awareness, while learning and practicing strategies to support their lasting resilience and personal success.
Your trust is a privilege, and it is an honor to support your teen as they begin the process of making sense of their experiences, while learning how to make meaningful changes in their lives- building emotional intelligence, and developing skills to regulate stress and skillfully navigate any challenges they encounter along the way, as they finally experience what it truly means to feel comfortable in their own skin.
Call today to schedule your free 15-minute phone consultation or video call.
Women
If you are a professional woman feeling lost, overwhelmed, or like there is ‘not enough of you to go around’, you may experience daily struggles as you seek to find a much-needed sense of balance and success in your life.
This is no easy task to navigate the constant pressures of adult life with a seemingly never-ending list of responsibilities. It is a completely understandable and normal experience to feel isolated and alone in your emotional experience. If you notice repeating patterns of instability and/or emotional pain in your close relationships, consider this to be a clue you may be subconsciously re-enacting attachment wounds from early childhood, which likely invisibly shaped your emotional development throughout your life; silently impacting your current abilities to develop and maintain satisfying relationships where your emotional needs are both honored and met.
If you did not grow up with the encouragement, support, and guidance of healthy and trustworthy role models- or if you live with the haunting echo of past trauma(s), it is both normal and understandable if you struggle with healthy/effective communication and emotional regulation; possibly resulting in difficulties with time management, or resulting in a persistent feeling of shame, inhibiting your comfortability asking for help, even when you really need it.
If you have children, you are likely to very much want to provide them with a healthier, more supportive emotional home life than you experienced yourself. However, without your proactive action to learn effective parenting strategies to support your accomplishment of this goal, you may find yourself slipping into uncomfortably familiar dynamics with your own kids, which either mirror those of your own childhood or perhaps result in an entirely new set of difficulties.
The good news is that, through increasing your self-understanding with the guidance of a caring mental health professional in a supportive therapeutic alliance during therapy, you can begin unpacking and making sense of all the puzzle pieces of your past, while learning to identify their impact on shaping your self-esteem, personality, and behaviors throughout your lifetime. When you KNOW better, you can DO better.
Are you ready to get proactive about your happiness, to understand yourself better, and to step back into your power?
Together in treatment, we will collaborate to discover and untangle your limiting thought patterns, exploring how unmet emotional needs and faulty core beliefs might be stifling your ability to be your best self, right now.
It can be scary to make a change, and I commend your commitment to holding yourself accountable for your personal growth and development, as you take action to step into the best version of yourself, yet. Transformational growth and healing are not only possible- they are realistic and attainable goals that are very much within your reach. If you’re ready to GLOW UP, call today for your complimentary 15-minute phone or video consultation.