Providing individual, adolescents and family counseling.

Treatment specialization includes:

• Brainspotting
• EMDR
• Hypnotherapy and Rapid Transformational Therapy
• Therapy for Depression and Anxiety
• Emotional Freedom Technique
• Parenting Support
• Relaxation techniques
• Work and Career issues
• Stress Management

I work with a wide range of emotional and behavioral issues providing services that span from therapy for depression and grief counseling to parenting support, adolescent counseling, and beyond. In a comfortable and supportive atmosphere, I offer a highly personalized approach tailored to each of my client’s individual needs to help attain the personal growth they’re striving for.

I use mindfulness meditation, guided imagery, and relaxation techniques to help you to connect with your inner source and healing. To help with trauma I utilize inner child work, EMDR and Brainspotting. Inner child work is a way to rebuild a relationship with our wounded inner children. As difficult experiences happened to us as kids, we all got a form of PTSD. When ever something happens in our life that is similar in any way to the original event, our subconscious is aware and triggers the fight or flight response. This is where negative emotions come from. They are connected to our inner wounded child who felt unloved and not good enough. By rebuilding a relationship with your inner child, you build trust not just in yourself, but in your world. Brainspotting is using your eyes to access trauma held in the deeper parts of the brain, allowing you to process and integrate traumatic events from the recent to long ago past.

Trauma is pervasive in our world.  Whether it be ongoing childhood trauma or traumatic events of our daily world, everyone has experienced something that was difficult to process at the moment and finds themselves having symptoms and feelings of anxiety, depression, flashbacks, difficulty sleeping, etc.  While talk therapy can feel supportive and helpful, it does not get down to where trauma is held in our brain.   Talk therapy keeps you in your prefrontal cortex where logic and reasoning are. Trauma gets stored in the subcortical brain, such as the limbic system.  The limbic system is the part of the brain that is involved in our behavioral and emotional responses. 

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or CBT is a short-term, problem-focused form of behavioral treatment that helps people see the difference between beliefs, thoughts, and feelings, and free them from unhelpful patterns of behavior. CBT is grounded in the belief that it is a person’s perception of events – rather than the events themselves – that determines how he or she will feel and act in response. Most people with clearly defined behavioral and emotional concerns tend to reap the benefits of CBT. With CBT, you’ll be able to adjust the thoughts that directly influence your emotions and behavior.

Is anxiety taking over your life? Does it feel like you can’t control it no matter how hard you try? Have you already tried therapy but found it ineffective? If this sounds like you, I’m confident I can help. My practice offers the most effective forms of treatment, to get the relief from anxiety that you deserve. When it comes to treating anxiety disorders, research shows that therapy is usually the most effective option. That’s because anxiety therapy – as opposed to anxiety medication – treats more than just symptoms to the problem.

Do you feel heavy with despair, struggling each day to keep your head just above the darkness and dread? Does it take every ounce of energy to stay afloat? Or are you feeling overwhelmed by feelings of helplessness and hopelessness? If this sounds familiar, I want you to know you are not alone and there is help. While it may seem difficult to find your way back to hope and happiness, I’ve been helping clients to personally do just that for years. To experience the joy of warm sunshine on their face, to reconnect with estranged loved ones, and to re-engage with a meaningful life.

Have distressing or adverse life events caused anxiety, depression, or disconnection? Do you need professional help coming to terms with the loss of a loved one? Do you suffer from trauma related scars, nightmares, or flashbacks? Do you experience migraine, chronic, or phantom pain? Are you suffering from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)? You should know you are not alone. According to a study published in the Journal of Traumatic Stress, the prevalence of PTSD is 8.3%, 4.7%, and 3.8% of the population, over a lifetime, the past year, and the past six month period. Add to this those who don’t fit the PTSD criteria yet face health challenges after enduring adverse life events and the numbers are huge.

Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy, or MBCT, is designed for people who suffer from repeated bouts of depression or chronic unhappiness. It combines the ideas of cognitive therapy with meditative practices and attitudes based on the cultivation of mindfulness. Recent research has shown that people who have been clinically depressed three or more times in their life find that learning mindfulness-based skills help considerably to reduce their chances of depression returning.

Have you experienced a traumatic event? Are you suffering from lingering fear and anxiety? Do you feel like you no longer have any control over how you think, feel, and behave? Posttraumatic stress disorder - also known as PTSD - is a mental health challenge that may occur in individuals who have experienced or witnessed a traumatic event such as a natural disaster, a terrorist act, an act of war, a serious accident, rape, or any other violent personal assault. It is believed that PTSD affects nearly four percent of the U.S. adult population. While it is usually linked with veterans who’ve experienced combat, PTSD occurs in all people regardless of age, race, nationality, or culture. In fact, women are twice as likely to experience PTSD than men.

Do you need support, but can’t make it to an in-person appointment? Are you a busy stay-at-home or working parent, and don’t have the time to drive across town for an appointment? Do you live in a more rural area, or maybe you prefer to just do things Virtually? If so, we can help you through virtual therapy, or telehealth. Telehealth allows us to provide counseling and therapy to our clients via live video conferencing. This can be done anywhere you have a computer or smartphone. Telehealth appointments can be very beneficial if getting to a traditional in-person appointment is not convenient, or you simply just don’t want to.