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What do you need help with?

Anxiety – Learn practical coping tools to manage a constant sense of worry or fear disrupting work or personal life. Embrace how calm feels with practical coping tools. Understand how anxiety builds and how you can change your experience with anxiety for a more proactive approach.
Addiction - As a licensed addiction counselor, I work closely with family members trying to understand and support a loved one with addiction. I also work directly with individuals trying to overcome addiction. I help clients understand their possible root causes of addiction, implement strategies to improve emotional regulation, self-understanding, and recognize the impact of substances. Learn tools to manage cravings and experience how living a life in the present moment can heal and lead to recovery.
Depression – Find ways to regain energy, hope, pleasure, and purpose in your life.
Couples Counseling - Learn ways to improve communication and strengthen your relationship. Sometimes having a third party offer an objective perspective can create improved ways to be in a relationship with one another and help couples get on the same page.
Major life transitions – Feel supported when coping with the unknown and worried. Preparing for a move, career change, divorce, empty-nesting, and more.
Workplace Stress/Conflict– Find ways to manage stress and conflict in personal and professional life (exhaustion, blaming others, agitation, binge-eating/drinking).
Trauma Recovery/PTSD – Perhaps a traumatic event or abuse is impacting your ability to trust and build new relationships. With a trained professional, you can recover from trauma and learn to trust others and yourself again. PTSD symptoms – Flashbacks, nightmares, restlessness, increased anxiety, avoiding certain places, helplessness, and more.

Grief - You don’t have to be alone as you recover from a loss (death, divorce, empty-nesting). I support the healing process by getting to know you, what the loss means to you, and helping you normalize the experience, and understand ways to contain big emotions of grief.
Mentoring Professionals - Want to be inspired and break free of fear, past issues and find your way with confidence?
Conflict Resolution  – Sometimes a third party can help in the midst of conflict. I support professionals in the workplace and families.
Secondary Trauma/Vicarious Trauma – Professionals who work with trauma survivors may experience symptoms of PTSD after an accumulation of witnessing and/or hearing trauma/violence over a prolonged period.
Ability to communicate with confidence & clarity – Assert your needs and improve personal & professional relationships.

Methods I utilize —

Person-Centered: Every person is unique and can thrive in an accepting and validating environment while finding their best solutions to make appropriate changes in their lives. This is a nonjudgmental approach that emphasizes compassion while allowing clients to discover themselves.
DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy): Helping you learn practical and applicable skills to manage mood swings or strong emotions, tolerate distress, improve interpersonal relationships, and break free of destructive or impulsive behaviors.
CBT (Cognitive Behavior Therapy): Change patterns of thinking or behaviors. Changing the way you think can change how you feel. Learn about 10 common Cognitive Distortions and appreciate what this new awareness offers.
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing): A specialized psychotherapy that enables people to heal from symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences (e.g. major trauma, multiple disturbing events, “stuck” and cannot get past a significant life event.) *Remote options available proven to be successful.
Mindful Self Compassion: Learning compassionate self-talk can reduce anxiety and depression and have a positive impact. (As taught by Kristen Neff in her books such as Self-Compassion, Fierce Self-Compassion, and Mindful Self Compassion workbook).
Creative Interventions: I utilize creative interventions that may include walking and talking, art, or humor. My years of early childhood training has guided me at times when clients feel stuck to nurture their inner child and process emotions in a unique way. I am not an art therapist specialist and integrate this with other interventions if it supports the personality and interests of the individual. It can be a powerful way to express yourself if sometimes talking is difficult. I explore with clients how our body stores memories and art can be another way to release negative messages and create a new place for personal growth and empowerment.
Motivational Interviewing: This intervention is a collaborative approach to create change. A helpful aspect is to understand stages of change and explore an individual’s own ambivalence to change at times. It is an evidence-based practice in the treatment of individuals with substance use disorders.
Reality Therapy: Sometimes the best approach is taking a realistic approach addressing immediate needs in a way that makes practical sense for you as an individual. It emphasizes personal choice in pursuit of basic needs of survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.