Our Services

Individual Therapy

Purpose: 

To engage in regularly scheduled appointments for the purpose of addressing persistent,  destructive thoughts, feelings, and behaviors about ones self that causes marked emotional distress and significant functional impairment in ones personal life.

 Issues frequently addressed in therapy:

• Feelings of self hatred, loneliness, and abandonment
• Feeling stressed when experiencing a painful life crisis
• Experiencing significant or chronic emotional distress
• Surviving sexual abuse
• Addressing pain from the past
• Engaging in eating disorders or self harm
• Feelings of anger or rage
• Feeling like “damaged” goods
• Forgiving yourself and others
• Feeling fearful, empty, and inadequate
• Experiencing depression
• Confronting destructive coping styles
• Addressing loss and bereavement of powerful relationships

Group Therapy

Purpose: 

I offer a variety of counseling groups to address common issues for my clients. Groups are an active outreach that creates a positive emotional climate and encourages member collaboration as the group members provide support and validation to each other, while at the same time promoting autonomy for each client. The objective of the group is to create a warm environment that advocates freedom of expression. Specifically, groups will focus on expressing feelings, enhancing self-esteem, improving communication, and developing conflict resolution skills..

Benefits:

Members can expect to develop alternative coping strategies and a heightened awareness of cognitive thoughts, mindfulness, and spirituality. Other benefits include: indentifying maladaptive behaviors, identification and replacement of irrational thoughts and expectations, identifying negative self-talk and substituting with positive, healthy, and rational self-talk

Members:

Participation in group therapy is completely voluntary. Members will have the opportunity to work with others sharing common concerns. Groups have an average of 6-8 members and is professionally facilitated with a compassionate and supportive approach.

Process:

Group therapy is the process whereby members can honestly explore the dynamics of an illness, a loss,or past unresolved traumas by sharing feelings. Members are encouraged to discuss openly the factors that precipitated the onset of the issue, and factors that perpetuate or maintain an existing issue. Members are encouraged that all topics related to the specified group are open for discussion. Members will be revealing sensitive personal information therefore, we ask that all information shared in group be kept confidential. Members can expect active listening, unconditional positive regard, and warm acceptance.

Screening:

An initial orientation/intake appointment is required prior to joining all groups.

Child Therapy

Purpose: 

To assist the child suffering from significant distress caused by exaggerated fears, ADHD, traumatic memories, loss of a parent or sibling, physical and/or sexual abuse, neglect, and parental divorce. I incorporate child friendly coping skills and advise parents regarding how best to support their child. I also assist the child with adjustment issues that may cause stagnation of developmental milestones such as relocation, remarriage, bullying, and starting school.

My Therapeutic Approach Includes:

• Family Therapy – To encourage emotional support to the child. Parental involvement and participation is an imperative component of every child’s treatment.
• Play Therapy – Young children lack the ability to analyze their problems. At this stage in a child’s life, their vocabulary is limited, so I may incorporate the use of art, clay, puppets, or play-acting to help them express their concerns symbolically, rather than by the use of words.
• Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy – Utilization of rewards as a motivator to replace unwanted and negative behaviors with more useful and constructive behaviors.
• Music Therapy – I often employ music to help reduce stress, calm the spirit, and ease muscle tension of children.