I am a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 32 years experience working with individuals from diverse backgrounds. i have extensive training in the areas in which I practice and always follow the guidelines for ethical outcome/evidence based care. I love my work and I approach it with a great deal of energy and enthusiasm. I offer a warm, safe, non judgmental environment where clients can do serious work on achieving their goals.
You can expect to be listened to and to know that you are understood. You will walk into a warm, non-judgemental environment where you can feel free to express yourself as you wish. I will do a comprehensive evaluation that will help me gather information but it will also be a positive therapeutic experience for you. Feel free to prepare notes if you wish before our first session or for all of our sessions .
I love what I do and bring a great deal of enthusiasm to my work which my clients tell me signals to them HOPE. i have a great sense of humor and am an authentic, real person who has good training, extensive experience and most of all, a sincere desire to help. I ask that you bring the"real you" to our sessions and give our sessions your best efforts. Perfection is never an expectation.
I have extensive training in CBT and 32 years clinical experience successfully helping people with this approach.
I enhance the individuals treatment options and optimize their success using Motivational Interviewing.
I enhance individuals treatment options and optimize their success by using valuable insights gained from psychoanalytic work helping people see what "makes them tick".
I help people grieve loss of relationships, loss of cherished pets, moving locations , changing careers, terminal and chronic and death of loved ones
Keeping the "human experience" front and center by helping people see their strengths within typical human development. Psychological difficulty is not always a pathology.