Hello and welcome to my bio page. I am a very heart-centered and compassionate licensed clinical social worker with over 20 years of experience in helping individuals cope and overcome diverse mental health challenges. My approach is to help individuals feel like they have a safe, comfortable and zero judgement space to share openly and gain strength motivation and insights to work through their innermost struggles.
At your first session, I will assure you feel seen and heard and have the time and space you need to feel safe to begin to share about yourself as we embark on slowly building a safe and healing therapuetic relationship together.
My experience encompasses working with people of all ages and various mental health challenges. I have worked with individuals with the most severe mental illnesses to those who despite seemingly "have it all" still really struggle with anxiety, depression or immense self-doubt and a chronic negative self-talk. This can really destabilize anyone and make it hard to really feel your best or feel you are deserving of a happy, enriched life. I have worked with hundreds of patients in all facets of life and points of mental despair and am very comfortable guiding you through the most vulnerable and challenging emotional states.
My clients are usually young adults to older adults who are very engaged and motivated who are willing to be self-reflective in order to gain greater understanding, truths and insights about themselves so they can work to alleviate mental anguish and improve quality of their mental states as well as their relationships and overall everyday functioning.
I have used CBT to help patients understand and become aware of how their thoughts affect behaviors and that faulty or distorted thinking often comes into play to create a self-defeating and unrealistic negative narrative and/or view of oneself