Gain an ally in your journey to improve your mental health. Together, we can work through anxiety therapy to help you overcome limiting beliefs and relational patterns. We can help you embrace new perspectives and tackle the issues that need resolution. Our approach can assist you in transcending losses or traumas you’ve experienced, allowing you to appreciate what you can offer others. Therapy doesn’t have to be rigid; we encourage humor as part of the process. We can enjoy the journey while applying the most effective techniques from psychotherapy. 

For the past 25 years (17 of which I’ve been licensed), I’ve guided many individuals through:

- Worry, stress, anxiety, panic, and obsessive thoughts through anxiety therapy

- Sadness, depression, and mood fluctuations with depression therapy

- Navigating relationships with friends, family, and partners through relationship counseling

- Creating a meaningful life

- Body image issues, fitness, and health

- ADHD and neurodiversity, including the autistic spectrum

- Substance abuse and escape behaviors such as gaming, porn, shopping, and gambling

- Coping with illness, pain, disease, and aging

- Loss, grief, and life transitions

- Job stress and navigating career changes

- Exploring positive psychology concepts like happiness, satisfaction, gratitude, flow, and peak performance.

ANXIETY & DEPRESSION  

Struggles such as GAD, panic, OCD, PTSD, social anxiety, health anxiety, and stress can be overwhelming. Feelings of sadness and depression can lead to angst and dissatisfaction. Engaging in anxiety therapy and depression therapy can help navigate these challenges and improve your mental health.  

CREATING MEANING  

After experiencing a setback or loss, consider rewriting your story. Through psychotherapy, you can discover ways to best serve the world, seize moments, and create meaning in your life.  

RELATIONSHIPS  

*Friends*  

Building new friendships and nourishing existing ones is essential for well-being.  

*Family*  

Marriage, divorce, re-marriage, and blended families bring their own dynamics, while estrangement can pose difficulties.  

*Dating, partnering, & sexuality*  

The journey of finding, courting, and forming attachments is the work of love and often requires relationship counseling to strengthen bonds.  

*Parenting*  

Staying on the same page with parenting is crucial. Understanding patterns, skills, and style, while avoiding blame, taking responsibility, and building trust can create a harmonious family life. Increasing perspective-taking, empathy, compassion, and forgiveness is essential. Embrace playfulness and take the self less seriously as you navigate these relationships.

You can likely benefit from one or more of the following orientations, schools, or approaches that have robust literatures and evidence behind them in the realms of anxiety therapy, depression therapy, and psychotherapy. We can also integrate and combine these approaches to fit your unique mental health needs. Matching techniques to your motivations within a solid therapeutic alliance will lead to the best results in relationship counseling as well.  

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)  

We evaluate evidence for thoughts that are not serving you and provide alternative perspectives that enable you to think in a more flexible manner, positively influencing your feelings and actions.  

Behavioral  

We increase desirable behaviors through experimentation, practice, and shifting rewards. This approach helps us overcome fears by gradually and systematically facing them.  

Mindfulness, including ACT  

We heighten our awareness, observing thoughts and feelings with non-judgment and acceptance, realizing that we are more than our fleeting thoughts or feelings. This mindfulness practice will lessen our reactivity and stress and empower us to make wiser choices.  

Psychodynamic  

We explore our relational patterns to determine if we have learned any styles of relating that no longer serve our mental health, and then we experiment with new ways of relating, leading to new outcomes that gradually shift our original expectations of relationships.  

Existential  

We delve into your life story to help you create and live a more meaningful life.