Counseling

With an expansive background and knowledge of various areas, I am available for Individual and Group Counseling including, but not limited to, Secondary Trauma Experienced by Helping Professionals; Adoption and Foster Care Transitions; and Grief and Loss. 

Children and Teen Therapy

 

Using my extensive experience counseling children and teens, I build a rapport that is essential to help young people manage the challenges of their lives.

 

Some of the issues I help children and teens with include:

 

• Managing behavior difficulties at home or at school
• Dealing with grief and loss
• Coping with separation and divorce
• Handling other transitions, such as moving or going to a new school
• Expanding their skills to be successful at school
• Improving their social skills and peer relationships
• Understanding themselves as they grow up

 

Since children often express themselves best through play and metaphor, I use special therapeutic approaches, including art and various play techniques. I also collaborate closely with you, the parents of my young clients. We work together to seek the best possible results for your child and family.

 

Individual Therapy

I specialize in helping clients who may:

• Feel overwhelmed
• Struggle with anxiety and self-criticism
• Tend to put others' needs over their own
• Have a reluctance to ask for what they want or a hard time saying "no"
• Work in the helping professions and are experiencing secondary or vicarious trauma