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Take the first step in individual counseling on the journey to a healthier more balanced you.

Do you feel that you struggle with communicating wants, needs, thoughts, and feelings?

Would you benefit from the chance to build confidence and learn new tools to be successful in life? Have you lost hope in your ability to help yourself or your family? Do you feel like anxiety and depression are taking up a large part of your day?

If any of this feels like you, know there is help. You deserve a life filled with happiness, confidence, and the motivation to live your dreams. It is my passion to help children, adolescents, teens, and adults find balance while they are struggling with life-changing events, past trauma, and the daily pressures in their lives. I believe active listening, empathy, and the therapeutic relationship provides the foundation for positive change through counseling.

I understand that everyone wants the best in life for their child, their self, and their family; sometimes they just need guidance, support, new ideas, and hope.

My approach is to offer a non-judgmental space for you to identify patterns, blocks, and coping skills that are either working or not working in your life. Once these have been identified new tools can be introduced to replace the ones that are not serving you. Through collaborationassigned homework, and the therapeutic process we will come up with strategies and tools to help you safely move through your feelings and emotions. In working together you can gain the confidence needed to express your wants, needs, thoughts, and feelings in a way that is healthy for you. It is my philosophy that with awareness and a positive outlook, change can happen. My goal is the tools you learn in therapy will carry on long after our work together is complete. 

Life can be more difficult during times of struggle or change. You don’t have to do it alone. I can partner with you, through the difficult times and help you gain the strength needed to be successful and happy. Counseling can change your life. It may not be easy, but the reward is often reconnecting with your stronger, more confident self. How could that be bad? I believe you have already taken the first step by spending time on this site. It would be my honor to help you the rest of the way.

My extensive clinical experience allows me to be able to help with a wide variety of issues, including but not limited to:

  • Anxiety

  • Depression

  • Grief/Loss

  • Life transitions, including divorce, separation, moving, changing jobs

  • Panic

  • Low self-esteem

  • OCD

  • Trauma

  • Bipolar Disorder

  • Self-Harm

  • Relationship issues

  • Parenting concerns

  • Time management

  • Perfectionism