Get to know me

In our first session together, here's what you can expect

During our first session, I will be gathering information to help me understand YOUR goals & needs for your therapeutic experience. More importantly, you will be assessing me. It is extremely important to ensure that YOU feel SAFE with the therapist YOU chose. Your safety with your therapist is the foundation of YOUR treatment success. I encourage you to ask questions and advocate for yourself. After all, this is YOUR healing journey… Creating a better path to a Better YOU!

The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions

I have been a Social Worker for a long time! My role is to help you identify the coping strategies you already possess which have helped you survive. Together, we will reflect on those strategies & improve upon them, learn new techniques & set manageable goals that help build your self-confidence, self-assurance & self-reliance to a point where you no longer need a social worker!

The clients I'm best positioned to serve

Are you struggling with anxiety? Are you struggling with depressed mood? Are you struggling with grief &/or loss? Are relationships difficulty for you? Are you struggling with prioritizing, organizing, procrastination & implementing strategies that maybe interfering with achieving your Life Goals? If you answered yes to any of these questions, perhaps speaking with a neutral, non-judgmental third party; such a therapist, who is trained to assist with these & other issues, may be a good place to start! Not everyone experiences all of these symptoms, yet often times, these experiences are interconnected; tangled, if you will, creating a confused mixture of emotions & thoughts that are difficult to sort through alone. Finding a solution may be as simple as learning new coping skills or tweaking the coping strategies that you already have. For some, we don't realize how old thought patterns & unrealistic expectations unconsciously impact our internal thought process, creating a negative perception of self. Learning to recognize these unhelpful negative thought patterns can be reconditioned & reframed to help us encourage & empower ourselves from within while becoming less dependent on external validation. Grief & loss often play an unrecognizable role in impacting our thoughts & emotions. The "myth" that we humans "get over" grief & loss often conflicts with the reality that we experience. The grief we experience from loss, whether due to death or the alteration of a relationship, personal or professional, continues to impact the remainder of our lives. Grief ebbs & flows, like the waves of the ocean. We can learn to manage the frequency & intensity of those waves, accumulating/building tools to help us along the way, with the goal of surfing, sailing or cruising without constantly feeling like the waves are constantly tossing us about. Life can become tolerable again, even enjoyable. Fear also plays a role in how we respond to life's challenges. Learning the biological, chemical & physical responses to fear, allow us to recognize it when it rears itself. Our own fear is not something to be "fearful of." It is our innate safety system that has helped human-kind to evolve & survive. Learning how both ourselves & those we love respond to fear, can aid in the improved connection with self as well as others. Our goal is not to rid ourselves of fear, but to learn to tame the impulse, so it continues to protect us from danger; yet doesn't not discourage us from