About my services (Click on the links below or scroll down to view details about my services).
My Services Include – Therapy for:
Other Service include:
Therapy Services:
Individual therapy
In individual therapy, the client and I work together to understand and improve the client's quality of life.Counseling and therapy for individuals can help you:
siblings, and loved ones
Therapy for Children and Adolescents (school ages)
In children and adolescent therapy, I team with your child/teen to discover the area(s) that they feel are not working and improve the quality of your child’s life. Children and Adolescent Therapy can help:
and replace with healthy coping skills
Couple therapy
In marriage counseling and couple therapy, I help the couple rebuild a sense of hope as they do the hard work of dealing with relationship problems and issues more effectively. Counseling and therapy for couples can
help partners:
Family therapy
In family therapy, I included all or most of the members of a family in the therapy process. Because the family has an influence on every member, it can be helpful to focus on the family as a unit instead of just on one
individual.
Family therapy and counseling can help families:
Family therapy can help parents:
Family therapy can help children:
members
Stress and anxiety management
In stress and anxiety management therapy, I work with the patient to develop coping skills to manage stress more effectively. The goal is to develop ways to deal with stressful life situations so you keep functioning
and not feel paralyzed. Stress and anxiety management can help you:
Pre-Marital Counseling
In Pre-Marital Counseling I work with you to understand each other desire for the future and be clear on the choices and lifestyle you both want. Pre-Marital Counseling will help to clarify:
Divorce recovery therapy
In divorce recovery therapy, I help the client understand and cope with the strong feelings that can arise before, during and after a divorce. Divorce recovery therapy can help with:
Life transitions (Children, adolescents and adults)
In life transition therapy, I help the client deal with major life changes related to work, relationship, health and more. Life transition therapy can help you:
Anger management (Children, adolescents and adults)
In anger management therapy, I help the client understand that it's okay to feel angry. Anger management can help you:
healthier ways of coping
Other Services:
Education Consulting
In educational consulting we work together to discover your needs and work to find creative powerful solutions for your educational future. For those in middle school and high school we also work with the school to
determine your needs and get them implemented.
current college students and high school seniors
services
Parenting Guidance/Counseling (Support with Infant, toddler, child, adolescent, and young adult ages)
In parent guidance/counseling we will team together to learn new and creative ways to:
(depression, anxiety, ADHD/ADD, SED, Childhood onset Bipolar, Oppositional Defiant, Conduct
Disorder, etc.)
Career Coaching
In career coaching we team together to discover you dreams and desires for your career. Career coaching will help to:
My Services Include – Therapy for:
 | Couples (dating or married or alternative partnerships) | |
| Individuals (school ages and up) | |
| Family | |
| Children and Adolescents | |
| Pre-Marital Counseling | |
| Anger Management | |
| Divorce Recovery |
Other Service include:
| Educational Consulting | |
| Parenting Guidance, Support and Education | |
| Life Transitions skills | |
| Career Coaching |
Therapy Services:
Individual therapy
In individual therapy, the client and I work together to understand and improve the client's quality of life.
| Explore current concerns, problems and issues | |
| Explore how you cope with problems | |
| Review what has helped or hurt in the past | |
| Develop more effective coping strategies | |
| Get in touch with your inner strength | |
| Discover what makes you successful and happy | |
| Use what you learn to develop strategies that can help in daily life | |
| Successful communication with others | |
| Release anger, pain, and loss without using self destructive behaviors | |
| Increase your self image | |
| Understand and gain relationships skills | |
| Trust yourself and others | |
| Discover the whys of actions and decisions | |
| Make healthy lifestyle choices | |
| Identify and overcome fears | |
| Understand and have a better, more loving and respectful relationship with parents, friends, |
| Clarity on life transitions | |
| Explore desires, dreams, goals and …… | |
| Clarity on education and career decision making | |
| Manage stress in your life | |
| Experience healing | |
| Manage depression and anxiety |
Therapy for Children and Adolescents (school ages)
In children and adolescent therapy, I team with your child/teen to discover the area(s) that they feel are not
| Discover why your child uses self-injurious/destructive behavior and reduce the impulse/need |
| Learn to communicate better and gain healthy friendships | |
| Work to increase desire to focus on education | |
| Have good relationships with themselves and others | |
| Release anger, pain, and loss without using self destructive behaviors | |
| Increase their self esteem and body image | |
| Gain self empowerment, pride, and leadership | |
| Understand and manage their attitude | |
| Trust themselves and others | |
| Take responsibility for actions and choices | |
| Discover the whys of actions and decisions and make healthy lifestyle choices | |
| Identify and overcome their fears | |
| Achieve goals | |
| Understand and have a better relationship with their parents | |
| Sexual identity and decision making | |
| Manage depression and anxiety (including school phobia) | |
| Develop assertiveness and deal with stress and teasing at school | |
| Manage their time and develop effective strategies to improve school performance |
Couple therapy
In marriage counseling and couple therapy, I help the couple rebuild a sense of hope as they do the hard
help partners:
| Make the commitment to work to improve the relationship | |
| Deal with past hurt | |
| Learn communication skills | |
| Accept one another without being judgmental | |
| Reconnect with each other | |
| Improve how to relate to each other | |
| Deal with money problems | |
| Build intimacy and create the sexual life you want each other | |
| Manage difficult personality traits and behavior | |
| Relate assertively without being critical | |
| Parent more effectively together | |
| Negotiate roles/responsibilities each partner wants to commit to | |
| Accept one another's extended family | |
| Become clear about lifestyle choices | |
| Build empathy and understanding | |
| Caring for yourself and managing life with partner with a mental diagnosis/illness |
Family therapy
In family therapy, I included all or most of the members of a family in the therapy process. Because the
individual.
Family therapy and counseling can help families:
| Work together as a unit to communicate feelings and ideas more effectively | |
| Enjoy their time together more-vacations, outings, holidays | |
| Develop effective family meetings | |
| Gain understanding and education and learn to manage out of control or depressed teen, | |
| Gain skills to manage when dealing with divorce or going through trauma and/or high conflict | |
| Learn to create structure in your family system |
Family therapy can help parents:
| Understand and work with a child's personality | |
| Understand and guide a difficult child who opposes them | |
| Gain skills on how to create and maintain a healthy family system |
Family therapy can help children:
| Communicate more effectively with family members and strengthen social skills | |
| To communicate with the family about problems in their life and school and feel heard by family |
| Understand their parents and play a active healthy role in the family system |
Stress and anxiety management
In stress and anxiety management therapy, I work with the patient to develop coping skills to manage stress
and not feel paralyzed. Stress and anxiety management can help you:
| Deal with negative thoughts about stress | |
| Manage stressful situations | |
| Stop obsessing about stressful situations | |
| Deal with panic attacks-sometimes in conjunction with medication prescribed by a psychiatrist | |
| Confront your fears and understand that many fears can be irrational | |
| Manage anxiety, stress or guilt feelings |
Pre-Marital Counseling
In Pre-Marital Counseling I work with you to understand each other desire for the future and be clear on
| Choices communication | |
| Compatibility | |
| Future planning | |
| Life style choices | |
| Choices about money, sex, children, family, roles, parenting, etc… |
Divorce recovery therapy
In divorce recovery therapy, I help the client understand and cope with the strong feelings that can arise
| Major changes as the result of a divorce (children, family, friends, etc.) | |
| Emotional process of the divorce | |
| Control of negative feelings | |
| Difficulties of families and children |
Life transitions (Children, adolescents and adults)
In life transition therapy, I help the client deal with major life changes related to work, relationship, health
| Deal with changing from high school to college or college to the workplace or graduate school | |
| Move from being a single person to being in a relationship or marriage | |
| Make the transition from being a couple to being parents | |
| Deal with the empty nest after kids leave | |
| Make peace with an adult child's choice of lifestyle or partner |
Anger management (Children, adolescents and adults)
In anger management therapy, I help the client understand that it's okay to feel angry. Anger management
| Develop appropriate ways to release anger | |
| Set boundaries for yourself at work and in your family | |
| Respect the boundaries of others | |
| Uncover and understand your triggers and learn how to manage them or replace them with |
Other Services:
Education Consulting
In educational consulting we work together to discover your needs and work to find creative powerful
determine your needs and get them implemented.
| College Transition Support – hows to, decision making, support around the transition – for |
| Understanding of IEP and 504 process and how to get what you or your child needs | |
| Improve your or your child’s school functioning and learn how to work with school to get needed |
Parenting Guidance/Counseling (Support with Infant, toddler, child, adolescent, and young adult ages)
In parent guidance/counseling we will team together to learn new and creative ways to:
| Gain Parenting skills | |
| Gain coping skills | |
| Gain skills in managing infants sleep and eating/breastfeeding – and take care of yourself | |
| Gain skills to manage discipline | |
| Learn Communication | |
| Understand your changing child | |
| Understand the education process for yourself and your child | |
| Learn how to set effective boundaries for you, your family and your child | |
| Understand and learn how to take back the adult roll in your relationship with your family/children | |
| Heal from and gain respect and power back from an abusive parent child relationship | |
| Explore and come to a successful compromise with your partner about parenting styles | |
| Remove undermining and negative rolls within the family system | |
| Manage yourself and your family when your child has an mental health diagnosis/illness |
Disorder, etc.)
| Managing being a single mom or dad | |
| Creative techniques for learning disabilities |
Career Coaching
In career coaching we team together to discover you dreams and desires for your career. Career coaching
| Unblock barriers to having the career you want | |
| Gain creative ways to market yourself and get the door to the career you desire | |
| Learn great ways to communicate in your interview | |
| Discover what is truly important to you when deciding about a career path | |
| Manage home and your career successfully | |
My Services
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