Services

Each person has a unique situation that requires me to listen to your story with compassion, curiosity and openness

Adolescents

I work with adolescents from age 13-19. Adolescents can greatly benefit from individual counseling. They desire to be heard and understood. They are going through an incredibly difficult developmental stage in their lives and often need extra support. Parents and families may be under stress from their teen experiencing problems with behavior, school or managing emotions. As a parent, seeing your child struggle is heart wrenching. My goal is to provide specific tools and strategies for teens to heal from past trauma, to be able to cope with their current situation, and to find ways to reach their goals, feel healthy and be more successful at home and in school.

At the first appointment I will get to know your teen and hear about the problems they are experiencing. We will set up some goals to help your teen improve their health and well-being.  We will decide together what approach fits your teen, and develop a plan of action for their counseling sessions. A parent may want to attend the first session.

Parent Counseling
and Coaching

Parenting is difficult. Children, teens and adult children may have struggles which can greatly affect the family system. I offer support in setting house rules, creating appropriate
boundaries, navigating the school, community and healthcare systems, communication skills, coping with loss, and managing parent anxiety. I am currently a parent of 3 adult children and one grandchild. I have lived through the ups and downs of parenting kids with a variety of needs. I’ve counseled parents for over 20 years and find much joy in encouraging healing and growth in parents and their kids.

Adult Counseling

Individual adult counseling is a means to heighten your understanding of yourself and those around you. I offer you a safe place to share your story where you will be met with compassion and encouragement. I will partner with you to live out your values and reach your goals. Counseling is an opportunity to experience acceptance and care in an environment where I will encourage you to utilize your strengths and resources to make changes in your life.

Some areas I offer support include:

  • Changing negative patterns of behavior and learning new, healthy ways of living 
  • Reducing stress, anger, anxiety and depression
  • Healing for trauma and post-traumatic stress
  • Recovery from physical, sexual and emotional abuse
  • Coping with grief and loss
  • Working through issues of marriage or divorce
  • Managing life transitions and decision making

Family

Being part of a family offers us a unique opportunity to grow as an individual in community.  Families are designed to offer us strength, encouragement and love. Unfortunately, they also have the potential to hurt and not function well. I enjoy working with families to explore the problems they are experiencing as a group, and some of the beliefs and communication that may be preventing the family from growing and healing.

Many of my clients enter family therapy for one or more of these reasons:

  • Parent-child and/or sibling conflicts
  • Communication and conflict issues
  • Child behavior problems
  • Substance abuse
  • Foster care/adoption
  • A unique change the family may be experiencing, such as a move, divorce, death in the family

Lifespan Integration

Lifespan integration (LI) is a gentle body-based therapeutic method which through a variety of protocols brings, health, healing and neural integration to a person without retraumatizing. LI works to significantly decrease anxiety and depressive symptoms, improves self-regulation, heals the mind and body from trauma, helps to establish a core sense of self-love and compassion and repairs attachment. 

Currently I have completed all of the Lifespan Integration trainings and I am pursuing full certification. What this means is that I am meeting monthly with a LI trainer and consultant as well as participating in my own personal LI therapy.

Lifespan Integration is my preferred therapy for treating trauma and attachment repair. It can be used with children, teens and adults.  Read more about LI here.

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