LMFT, 12 years of experience
I'm a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in the State of Florida and South Carolina. I work with family systems and individuals facing struggles in their relationships, finding themselves caught in maladaptive interactional patterns of communication and behavior. Neurodiverse families looking to better understand their specific circumstances, and ADHD or ASD struggles see these struggles, but are usually more exacerbated by often parent-child or pursuit-withdrawal style interactions between couples.
The first session is for information gathering to help me understand you a little bit. I will ask what type of struggles you are facing and to explain more of that, find out about your family and support system, talk about things you are involved in, and see what things you would like to see change as a result of our sessions together, beginning short and long term goal setting.
Having worked with many individuals and couples involving a diagnosis such as ASD or ADHD, I feel I have quite a bit of experience in being able to help people find new ways of working together to make things easier and less stressful. For individuals, helping with anxiety/depression, executive functioning, greater perspectives, social skills improvement, meditation, relatonship and personal growth. - ADHD-CCSP and trained in Neurodiversity in Relationships
I work with clients finding struggles in their relationship conversational styles and instead finding themselves stuck in repetitive maladaptive patterns serving no benefit to the relationship. Individuals and couples that struggle with ADHD or ASD often need a different type of understanding of what is needed to help them in their specific contexts, Neurodiverse relationships, or their own individual growth.
Work with client systems to determine maladaptive interactional patterns to help shift in seeing different perspectives around conversational style and areas of struggle in relationship.
Working with families to find maladaptive patterns in their interactional styles, change communication patterns, work within hierarchical system to help elicit change for overall improvement of family functioning.
Work with Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) to help clients see perspectives different from their own, offer their compromises, recognize things they would like to change for overall improvement of system.