I pride myself on being more than just someone to listen, but someone to help you look at things a different way.
It all starts with a healthy mind, and a fresh perspective. From there, focusing on your well-being, mental and emotional health, and physical wellness comes into play like never before. You’re taking the first steps on a journey, but you’re not taking them alone.
Whatever obstacles and struggles someone may be going through in life, I consider it a privilege to help them deal with. I understand that the patients I see are entrusting me to give them the right resources to guide them down a new path, with a new perspective, so they can achieve their own goals. With a healthy balance of listening, guiding, and even learning, I take pride in using my own experience and resources to help people start off on the right foot on that path. Whether you, or someone you know struggles with something like depression, or simply wants a different outlook on their life, it’s something to work through together, and by setting up a consultation, we can get started.
My areas of expertise:
ADHD
Addiction
Anxiety
Behavioral Issues
Children/Adolescents
Codependency
Coping Skills
Family Conflict
Grief/Loss
Impulsivity
Life’s Changes
Sadness/Depression
Spiritual Issues
Stress
Substance Use
As a professional therapist, my role is to guide you as you take steps towards positive life changes, healing, and a healthy mind. Together we’ll work to uncover and better understand life’s challenges and day-to-day stressors that detract from your life and focus, and begin identifying and practicing things that will make you stronger.
My approach to psychotherapy is grounded in traditional talk therapy along with mindfulness, attachment, somatic, humanistic, and art therapy. For people who are skilled at speaking, art making provides a way to bypass the narrative and gently find out together what might be really at issue. For those who are less verbal, art making provides a voice that can be expressed on the page, addressed/healed there, and then re-integrated into oneself.
What I love about doing art therapy with my clients is how often what emerges for them in the process is novel and surprising. We are so accustomed to using language to talk about our inner lives that it can sometimes become stale, or simply feel inadequate to get at our deepest need for self-expression. Art therapy is not just for artists, it is for everyone, and for clients of all ages, couples, and families who are open to it, I have seen it open up new ways of looking at problems, accessing trauma, interrelating, regulating the nervous system, seeing ourselves, and experimenting with new ideas.
I am trained in art therapy at the master’s level and am a registered art therapist with years of experience using art processes in the context of therapy, sometimes as the primary form of treatment and sometimes in conjunction with other forms of treatment. If you are curious, to hear more please ask me about art therapy during our consultation.