I am a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and have been working in the human services field for over 3 decades. Working with adults, I bring a range of life experiences, humanity, and mental health clinical experience to our work together. I work with you as a whole person to help gain context for your life experiences as we find a path toward healing and learn how to prepare for whatever comes next. My practice starts with kindness, with a willingness to challenge you to meet your goals.
From the first session I work with you as a whole person to help gain context for your life experiences as we find a path toward healing and learn how to prepare for whatever comes next.
I believe that everyone has the potential for growth and change, and that therapy can help unlock that potential. I am an empathetic listener who provides a safe and supportive environment where my clients can explore their thoughts and feelings without judgment, so they can move toward healing.
Much of how we perceive the world around us is seen through the lens of what we have learned to be our reality that can impede our capacity to experience happiness or freedom from anxiousness. I have been utilizing CBT as powerful approach in my work with clients. It offers specific tools to help the client understand the important link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and how you can manage problems by the way you think and behave.
As a part of therapy, I utilize this mindfulness-based technique to help my clients stay focused on the present moment and accept thoughts and feelings without judgment. This approach helps the client move through difficult emotions to and move toward healing.
For some of my clients, their thoughts, feelings, communication style, behaviors, and interpersonal styles are learned either to avoid or to amplify due to their experiences from their family of origin. The goal of this work is to assist the client in learning new ways to help alleviate dysfunctional emotions and behaviors undermining the individual.
A part of living life is the experience of loss - the passing of a partner, child, or parent; the loss of career; the end of a marriage or partnership; the loss of our health; or our own childhood. The incomplete recovery from the experience of grief can have significant effects on our capacity to move forward and experience the things ahead of us with happiness. My approach is to help you find your way through your grief to help you find the life that is on the other side of it.
For many of my clients, we find great benefit in assisting them in strengthening their self-awareness and identify of their own positive traits, talents and strengths, along with other work, to help identify and activate the tools one already has to draw from helping to access their positive emotions supporting the development of hope and well-being.