Couples Counseling | Depression
Anxiety | Spirituality | Childhood Trauma
Divorce and Co-Parenting | Movement Facilitation
Family Therapy | Play Therapy | EMDR
Couples Counseling
Couples counseling involves working with both individuals form the perspective of supporting and strengthening the relationship. Together, as a team, we address areas such as deepening intimacy and trust, changing and improving communication so that each partner begins to feel heard and understood, resolving past events or betrayals and improving compatibility.
Depression
Depression affects nearly everyone at some point in their life. It can include feelings of pervasive sadness, hopelessness or simply a lack of joy, lasting for months when untreated. My approach involves treating the depression as well its underlying causes to provide immediate relief and long term resolution.
Anxiety
Like depression, anxiety occurs with many people, although its forms may vary. Irritability, compulsive or obsessive thoughts or behaviors, physiological sensations such as a racing heart and sweaty palms or an extreme need for control are all hallmarks of anxiety. My approach is an integrated one based in increasing the sense of control over anxiety and life in general.
Spirituality
For many, personal work includes exploring and deepening spirituality. With respect for various backgrounds and beliefs, I invite direct experience to guide the process.
Childhood Trauma
Childhood experiences often carry over into our adult lives. For some, where
trauma has occurred as a child, the impact can keep us from leading a full, satisfying life or having fulfilling relationships. I offer multiple avenues for uncovering and addressing childhood trauma including psychotherapy, EMDR, and relaxation/meditation practices.
Divorce and Co-Parenting
Current divorce rates are high, making it one of the most common and significant life changes. Successful restructuring of the family and effective co-parenting has many benefits. I work with parents to move forward and keep lines of communication open so that those benefits can be realized.
Movement Facilitation
Movement facilitation for groups and for individuals provides participants with the unique opportunity to work through issues, emotion and trauma by using meditation and movement as opposed to traditional talk therapy.
The process involves first quieting the mind through simple meditation practices and then, with the assistance of inspiring and rhythmic music, allowing the body to be a vehicle for increasing awareness, releasing stress and emotion and returning to a sense of equilibrium and peace.
Family Therapy
My approach is to work with each family as a whole system, defining and increasing family strengths and addressing areas such as ineffective communication and parent-child power struggles.
My background includes working with multi-stressed, restructured, blended and nuclear families as well as parents learning to co-parent after separation or divorce.
Families involved in counseling typically find an improvement in solving problems, enhanced and deepened communication between all members, an increase in trust and trustworthiness, and overall improved family functioning.
Play Therapy
Play therapy allows children to work through issues and needs using a sandtray, art and/or puppets to facilitate the process. I work with children of all ages, using play therapy in conjunction with traditional counseling methods, in a warm and inviting environment. Since children generally have different needs than adults when addressing loss, change or even family stress, I incorporate age and developmentally focused strategies in my therapeutic work with children.
EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, i.e. EMDR, is an effective way to address trauma. When a disturbing event occurs, it can get locked in the brain with the original picture, sounds, thoughts, feelings and body sensations. EMDR seems to stimulate the information and allows the brain to process the experience. My practice includes the use of EMDR for clients who have experienced trauma.
