Counseling

​Finding the Right Support

It takes courage to reach out for support and sometimes perseverance to find the right fit. To be truly helpful, therapy needs to be a collaborative alliance between you and your therapist, and it’s important that you feel comfortable and safe to express yourself so you can fully explore your issues and concerns.​

 

​Treatment Approaches

My overall approach to counseling is attachment-based and client-centered, focusing on supporting you in developing a compassionate, accepting, and empowered relationship with yourself.

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Depending on your individual needs, preferences, and goals, the following are some of the primary approaches I use.

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Internal Family Systems (IFS):

IFS has given me the personal and professional conviction that therapy can create deep and lasting healing from old wounds that often underly symptoms and struggles such as anxiety, depression, addictive processes, obsessive thoughts, and compulsive behaviors. It is a transformative, non-pathologizing therapeutic approach that views the mind as a system of parts, each with its own unique role and perspective. The process of understanding these different parts and their relationships with each other fosters self-compassion, internal harmony, resilience, and a stronger sense of self.

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Motivational Interviewing:

This is a counseling approach that helps resolve ambivalent feelings and insecurities and helps you develop clarity and the internal motivation to make the changes you want to make in your life.

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Mindfulness-Based Techniques:

Focused on developing skills and practices that build up your resilience to stress, anxiety, and depression, as well as support your ability to stay present in a compassionate way with whatever emotions and sensations you are experiencing in the moment.

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Recent neuroscientific discoveries have led to refining traditional CBT to better support you in becoming aware of and changing thinking patterns that cause or exacerbate anxiety and depression.​

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Online or In-Person Sessions

I am currently offering both online sessions and in-person sessions. Online therapy is convenient, easy to use, secure, and for many people is as effective as in person therapy.

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Contact me to set up a free 20 minute phone consultation.

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