Mental health and psychology are for all people. All humans have issues and problems. However, it takes courage to look at our lives, process painful events, feelings, or experiences, and take action steps to make changes. The journey will take you from surviving to thriving! The symptoms you are experiencing, such as anxiety and depression, can be alarms letting you know something isn’t right. Psychotherapy is an excellent opportunity to address and go beyond managing your symptoms. I like to help clients stabilize, further explore their lives, and make sense of their past and how it may affect them presently. I aspire to help you work through whatever obstacles may be in your way, so you can live the happy life you truly want.

I have been very well trained by top experts in the field in the “art of therapy.” Their influence has informed my “whatever works” approach in working with clients. Each client is unique and needs to be treated accordingly. I meet you where you are and utilize what seems to suit you at a given time best. My esteemed mentors have taught me that our therapeutic relationship acts as a change agent. Your needs further emerge through our work together. Clients develop skills to manage their symptoms, build awareness, and move from black-and-white thinking to embracing alternatives, choices, and perspectives. My clients develop better relationships with themselves and others, become more psychologically - minded, and better understand their wants, needs, desires, and values, which act as a road map for living their lives.

My expertise lies in helping you to reduce your symptoms (such as anxiety and depression) so you can live the life you truly desire to live. It is ok if you are unsure what that looks like now; we will uncover that together through our work.

I also have an expertise in working with folks who experience attention and inattention concerns (ADHD). I have ADHD, which drew me to training with Dr. Lara Honos Webb – the ADHD expert who wrote the Gift of Adult ADD. Her strength-based approach helps me help you better understand your wiring while identifying areas that need to be upgraded. Through our work, we help you change from running on your default settings to consciously making choices that better serve you.

I often help clients with one or more of the following in our work together:

  • Depression: Discover the origins and develop skills to manage depression

  • Anxiety: Reduce worry and stress to live more optimally

  • Relationship Issues:  Assist in your journey toward empathy and effective communication

  • Regulating emotions: Develop the skills to manage your mood effectively

  • Self-Esteem: Evaluate your thoughts and feelings about yourself

  • Development: Explore and understand how issues from childhood or the past are affecting you presently

  • Life Transitions: Identify the choices, options, and alternatives you may have

  • Personal Growth: Grow and change in the way you desire

  • Defenses: Work through obstacles, roadblocks, and defenses to live the life you want to live

  • Presence: Helping you to live more in the present, not the past or the future  

  • Self-Awareness: Work toward identifying your wants, needs, and desires

  • Meaning: Uncover what is truly important to you

  • ADHD: Identify your strengths and develop the skills to manage ADHD tendencies

  • Problematic Gambling: Stop suffering through making healthy choices