LMSW-C, 25 years of experience
I am a licensed clinical social worker with over twenty five years of experience working in healthcare. I graduated from the University of Michigan School of Social Work in 1999. I have worked extensively in healthcare with experience in both acute care and ambulatory settings. My professional interests focus on issues related to coping with chronic illness, caregiver stress, end-of-life care and support, grief and loss across the life span, bereavement support to families, and assisting health care workers recognize the unique aspects of professional grief to avoid burnout. I feel privileged to companion my clients through life challenges and humbled by their strengths. I provide a safe space for all to reflect on life's struggles and encourage the development of new perspectives. Life throws us curveballs, some more difficult to handle than others. Talking through those challenges with a neutral, supportive, and knowledgeable therapist can be helpful. I look forward working with you in the near future.
In our first session together, we'll start with brief introductions, then dive into the specific challenges you're facing. This will help me create a tailored plan for us to work through in follow-up sessions.
Having worked in healthcare for 25 years, I developed an understanding of the grief associated with navigating chronic illness and the toll caregiving takes. I have the ability to build rapport quickly by creating a safe environment to share and reflect.
I love working with adults and older adult who are navigating life transitions. Many find themselves sandwiched between caring for children and aging parents. Others are coping with chronic illness themselves or caring for a loved one with chronic illness. My clients are eager to improve, but don't yet have the tools needed to make this goal a reality. They often feel stuck, overwhelmed and anxious about their careers.
Person-centered therapy is a type of non-directive therapy that is empathetically driven toward providing a person with a safe space to talk, self-actualize (realize your full potential), and make positive changes in their life
Grief counseling is a form of counseling that aims to help people cope with the physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and thought responses to loss. These losses may be death loss or non-death loss including loss related to chronic illness or caregiving.
Narrative therapy (or narrative practice) is a form of counseling that helps patients identify their values and the skills associated with them. It provides the patient with knowledge of their ability to live these values so they can effectively confront current and future problems.
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a talking therapy that can help you manage your problems by changing the way you think and behave.