LMFT, 8 years of experience
New to Grow
Hello, and a warm welcome! Whether you need a space to process your worries, develop new coping skills, or make life changes, therapy is a great resource. My goal is to provide support for you to feel empowered, affirmed, and overall better. I focus on listening to your unique needs and letting you set the tone for your desired outcomes. Together, we can assess, plan, and implement changes to assist you in your unique journey. To schedule a consultation, click on my website and on the right hand side, choose a time that works for you. I currently have openings! I am a licensed marriage and family therapist who specializes in working with adolescents and adults. My areas of focus include depression, anxiety, life transitions, stress, relationships, and more. Some approaches I use include solution focused, cognitive behavioral, and family systems to help develop healthy perspectives and improve resiliency. Reaching out for help can be a vulnerable experience. Be proud of yourself for taking this important first step. I look forward to meeting with you and becoming a valuable ally in your desire for change.
Our first session will be dedicated to supporting you as you express your concerns and we work to identify goals. Taking an accurate and global picture of your concerns will help to ensure we develop a treatment plan best suited to your specific needs. Following out first appointment, I will provide a tailored treatment plan for us to review and ensure we are accurately addressing what it is you feel is most needed.
My goal is to provide support for you to feel empowered, affirmed, and overall better. I focus on listening to your unique needs and letting you set the tone for your desired outcomes.
Therapy is a great space to gain insight, support, and generative ideas for desired change. Clients outcomes are strongly based upon their participation in their identified goals.
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a form of psychological treatment that has been demonstrated to be effective for a range of problems including depression, anxiety disorders, alcohol and drug use problems, marital problems, eating disorders, and severe mental illness. Numerous research studies suggest that CBT leads to significant improvement in functioning and quality of life. CBT treatment usually involves efforts to change thinking patterns. These strategies might include: Learning to recognize one’s distortions in thinking that are creating problems, and then to reevaluate them in light of reality. Gaining a better understanding of the behavior and motivation of others. Using problem-solving skills to cope with difficult situations. Learning to develop a greater sense of confidence in one’s own abilities.
Family therapy is a form of psychotherapy that focuses on the improvement of interfamilial relationships and behavioral patterns of the family unit as a whole, as well as among individual members and groupings, or subsystems, within the family.
Solution-focused therapy (SFT) is a collaborative, culturally responsive, evidence-based approach that invites clients to describe what they want from therapy and apply what they already have toward achieving it in the shortest possible time. The therapist asks useful questions, listens closely to clients’ responses, and amplifies aspects of their responses and lives that support their hoped-for outcomes. SFT has been used throughout the world to assist a wide range of clients with challenges that include trauma, relationship problems, social-emotional difficulties, and more. Participants will leave with practical knowledge and tools for helping clients build practical solutions from their strengths, and previous successes