I'm a LCSW who believes in meeting clients where they are, establishing a therapeutic alliance and working as a guide to help them modify unhealthy behaviors that interfere with their life goals. This includes processing trauma, teaching coping skills and problem solving. My experience includes working with children at risk of being removed from their home, integrated care in a medical setting, crisis care, residential care and intensive outpatient. Most recently, seeing clients through telehealth who suffer from ADHD, anger problems, mood disorders, trauma or wish to address problems in living such as chronic pain, relationship issues, transitions (job change or loss, change in environment etc).
I ask questions about your sleep, appetite and mood, family history, the symptoms that you are seeking treatment for, when they began, their severity and previous experience with treatment. And why you are seeking help at this time.
I'm knowledgeable about diagnoses, experienced in differential diagnosis and treatment of clients in their environment.
Clients suffering chronic anxiety, chronic pain or health concerns, depression, unstable moods, close relationship issues, anger management, difficulty maintaining focus and motivation that interferes with achieving your life goals. Also, difficulty with life transitions such as divorce, changes in employment or location, retirement or disability. My approach is to contextualize problems, process concerns and develop a plan to address the desired changes. This involves skills training, processing underlying thoughts and values, making incremental change to achieve goals. Meaningful change takes time and involves a process rather than a quick fix. My goal is to assist clients in achieving changes that are personally meaningful to them.
I identify as
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Use to explain and modify unhealthy thinking patterns that lead to problem behaviors
Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
Use to explain source of unstable moods and impulsive behaviors including self harm