Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

Get personalized one-on-one sessions to explore feelings, thoughts, and behaviors in a safe and confidential environment via telehealth or in-office sessions. My focus is working with adults of all ages helping them overcome the negative effects of stress, trauma, life challenges, and poor self-concepts.  So many of us are dealing with shame and emotional pain caused by core negative beliefs like thinking we are not good enough, and traumatic or hurtful life experiences, fears of rejection, abandonment, and loss, and feeling stuck and uncertain how to change.  

If you ready to learn how to effectively manage your negative beliefs and symptoms of PTSD, depression, anxiety, stress, low-self-esteem, issues of sexual orientation, contact me for a FREE 15 Minute consultation. 

Anxiety is like a ripple that keeps spreading, disrupting your peace of mind, sleep, focus, and mood. If you don't understand what it is and how to control it, it can cause havoc. 

What we call anxiety is actually an evolutionary alarm system, often misunderstood and hard to manage, a lot like teenagers! Anxiety can be caused by lack of sleep, adequate hydration, and/or nutrition. It's also caused by the daily worries we carry, that can linger at the back of our minds, and creep up causing feelings of dread, irritability, lack of focus, forgetfulness, restlessness and trigger the flight or fight response.

Understanding this response and learning to manage it can be a game changer. I can teach you practical tools to manage those symptoms so you can improve your self control and quality of life.

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Depressive symptoms, like anxiety, can be debilitating, causing you a great deal of distress, feelings of hopelessness and helplessness. Prolonged symptoms can lead to an exhausted nervous system from constantly being triggered by worry, sadness, dread, poor sleep, substance use, and self-harm.  

Depression and anxiety are often intertwined, and both can interfere with your relationships, performance, self-esteem, and energy.

It's important to explore the root causes of your symptoms,  your core negative beliefs, like feeling not good enough, or unresolved traumatic events, and chronic stress, so we can resolve them allowing more to shift into a more positive state of mind. 

The goal is to get to the root of the issue, create new insight, shift your mindset, and work on resolutions.  You will learn effective coping strategies to improve your mood, self-concept, and overall well-being and sense of purpose.

Trauma and traumatic events are so common in our existence that it’s hard to meet anyone that hasn't had one fearful, painful, and life-altering experience. In our work together, I will ensure that you are ready to do this healing work before beginning. 

First, we will establish a good rapport and I will teach you coping strategies to regulate emotions, so you can feel more in control as you reprocess these events and the meanings associated with them. 

Once we begin, I will also ensure that you are grounded before ending these sessions. My preferred method of working with trauma recovery is to use a technique known as EMDR. 

While you may have been hearing more and more about it, the process and results can be difficult to understand until you experience it. This is a highly effective therapeutic technique that I use almost daily with successful, long-term results. When used consistently on one target (experience and negative belief), EMDR can provide results in weeks vs years of talk therapy.  

Take a moment to imagine what it would be like to resolve your trauma and move through life having the experience and negative beliefs associated with it neutralized.  This is the power of EMDR. 

*Note: EMDR is not right for everyone and some people do not respond to it.

Whether we work together individually or not, workshops and retreats are a great way to connect with others who have similar interests and are going through similar life transitions. 

The support, wisdom, and camaraderie in a group setting can be powerful. Plus, you will have dedicated time to work on your wellbeing and personal growth.

See current offerings here. 

• Self Esteem
• Life Transitions
• Aging
• Relationship Problems
• Sexual Orientation
• Adults bullied as youth
• Issues with Attachment
• Stress Management