WELCOME
My approach to therapy is strengths-based, focusing on what is going right in a person's life. I work with my clients to discover past and present successes and use these to address the challenges they face. I also use elements of narrative therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy to help clients recognize that the person is not the problem; the problem is the problem. I am trained in relaxation techniques, including hypnotherapy.
I work with children, teens, and adults individually, as couples, and as families or groups.
I am so fortunate that people choose to share their stories and their lives with me. From a young age, I always wanted to help people achieve all that they dreamed of for themselves, so becoming a therapist was just a natural extension of that focus.
My practice is specialized in grief and loss. This area of expertise as a grief therapist allows me to stay current on the most up to date clinical research and modes of therapeutic practice for people experiencing loss. Loss is a broad term including bereavement, loss of health, loss of personal or professional identity, and many other significant life changes that people experience.
The people that I typically work with are:
- People living with chronic illness
- People living with terminal illness
- Caregivers
- Family and Friends of people with chronic or terminal illness
- People experiencing any type of loss (bereavement, retirement, divorce, empty-nest)
- People having difficulty adjusting to a new or difficult situation (ie: divorce, going off to college)
- Teens
My areas of Specialty are:
- Bereavement
- Grief Therapy and Grief Counseling (inclusive of all situations of grieving and loss)
- Disenfranchised Grief related experiences (ie: adoption, death of an aquaintance, death of a pet)
- Life-cycle adjustment issues
- Teen issues
- Relaxation
- Goal setting and achievement