Areas of focus

Feeling irritable, hopeless, distracted, or guilty? Feeling like you're rolling a bolder uphill constantly is exhausting.  I can help you identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that keep you feeling down.  Through counseling and treatment, you can recover motivation, perspective, and a zest for life! 

 Find it hard to make decisions?   Worrying about the worst-case scenario?  You don't have to live up to other's expectations.  Anxiety is a common problem that affects every area of your life.  I can help you clear worry and doubt from your life to start enjoying the world around you again.  Through counseling I can help you recover confidence and clarity in your life. 

 Many individuals experience symptoms associated with painful loss, or abuse from the past.   Anxiety, fear, and hopelessness are a few emotions that can linger and reappear suddenly when we least expect it. I can help you overcome these symptoms and guide you through the process of grief and healing so a trauma is just part of your story, not the main character. 

 Are you finding yourself drinking/using more than you ever had?  Have others expressed their concern for your use?  Numbing our emotions can lead to poor decisions in every area of our lives leaving us hitting a wall every time.  I can help you discover the best way forward toward finding meaning in your life and rediscovering healthy ways to manage difficult emotions. 

As with any loss, experiencing  divorce/separation can elicit emotions like the death of a family member.  You and your children can experience a wide range of emotions and challenges including: happiness, relief, fear, depression, loneliness, residual trauma, and financial uncertainty.  Families often find individual and family counseling helpful to address everyone's needs.  Let us help you and your family process these changes to see this as just part of your story, not the evil villain.  

Parents of children with special needs face all the challenges parents of typically developing children do, multiplied tenfold.  Grief associated with your child's diagnosis, economic, social, and relationship stress challenge your family at every turn.  Individual and family therapy can help the whole family make peace with reality, identify strengths, access community supports, and map a way forward toward the "new normal".