Individual Psychotherapy
It is common to reach crossroads in our lives when we feel stuck or trapped. Therapy can provide you with the opportunity to find the path that will set you free from what holds you back from reaching your potential and your ability to transform and thrive.
Therapy is a journey of self-discovery, change, healing, and growth that occurs within the evolving client-therapist’s relationship. This journey starts when you realize that you need to change in order to be.
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How does individual psychotherapy work?
A safe space where you feel heard and understood.
At times, life challenges can become too overwhelming and you may feel you can no longer resolve them on your own. Therapy is a place for you to focus on yourself (your worries, fears, and frustrations) and a place for me to listen to you attentively and compassionately, and ask you questions that can lead you to the answers hidden within you. I will challenge and support you in ways that can help you understand the reasons for your struggles and identify creative solutions to overcome them. Sharing whatever it is on your mind without having to censor it can be a great source of relief!
Depending on your needs, I will work with you to determine which approach would work best for you so you can take the first step to make changes that otherwise seem impossible. Transforming your life begins with awareness of your current experiences, going back in time to explore your past experiences and the ways in which they have shaped you, and creating new ways of experiencing yourself and others that will lead to greater emotional and physical satisfaction.
Psychotherapy for Chronic Medical Illness
I am what I chose to become. – Carl Jung
Being diagnosed with a chronic illness can be very challenging at first. It calls into question our basic assumptions and ideas about life, uncertainty, and our identity.
The physical and emotional challenges can generate or exacerbate anxiety and/or depression as well as anger, fear, guilt, shame, helplessness and hopelessness.
Psychotherapy can help you move from despair to hope!
Couples Counseling
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. – Carl Jung
Couples often express feeling “misunderstood” by and/or “disconnected” from each other. My goal is to help them become aware of the tension between staying two separate individuals while maintaining a sense of unison in their relationship.
Couples seek therapy for various issues such as power imbalance; negative, blaming or criticizing behaviors; emotional shut down, withdrawal, distance; family conflict; financial struggle; lack of sex/intimacy; recovering from an affair; deciding whether to get married or navigating a trial separation.
I provide a safe place for both partners to feel heard and understood; and to foster mutual respect, trust and acceptance.
Family Therapy
The family is one of nature’s masterpieces – George Santayana
Facing challenges is a natural part of being a family. Often, we are unaware of how our personal struggles affect our families – and how the struggles of our families affect us. My goal is to create a safe and supportive environment that allows family members work through their difficulties together in order to strengthen and enhance their relationships with one another. Family therapy can help amend and deepen connections where both internal and external stressors have led to ruptures, conflict, or distress.
Families seek therapy for various reasons such as issues between married couples and in-laws; conflicts between parent(s) and young or adult child(ren); helping elderly parents; young or adult sibling relationships; a loss in the family; separation or divorce; blending of families; chronic illness; mental illness; shared trauma; physical or verbal abuse; or behavioral or academic concerns in a child.