Therapeutic Approach and Specialties

I engage in a team approach with my clients and I provide the right conditions for change:

• a supportive, safe environment with good boundaries
• a structured ‘container’ providing consistency
• tools, information and encouraging your belief in change
• guidance for the client to take ownership of their own change

Developing mutual respect, honesty and sense of safety are essential ingredients for our relationship to instill trust. My clients tell me they prefer my interactive, engaging and direct communication style. My communication skills are used in modeling and role-playing for my clients - more effective ways in meeting their needs, better expressing their feelings and experiences without blaming. Together, we work in discovery of your needs, identifying your feelings, and increasing constructive behaviors to feel more effective and satisfied in your life and relationships and workplace.

My Cognitive-Behavioral approach assists in clarifying goals and I serve as a coach, scientist and cheer-leader in my clients’ process.

My Family-of-Origin approach assists my clients’ developing awareness of childhood emotional patterns of feeling, unquestioned, limiting beliefs and behaviors that continue to repeat in their present lives causing distress. A blend of the two approaches takes us beyond insight, alone, to more satisfying thought and behavior changes.

I also provide brief counseling papers offering guidance and tips for a most productive experience both in session and in-between sessions.

Gain Tools for:

• balancing life’s necessities with your personal needs - not feeling overwhelmed
• setting boundaries - saying ‘No’ and feeling good rather than guilty
• discovering your feelings - connecting with your intuition which becomes your guide in life choices rather than feeling hopeless and depressed
• feeling comfortable asserting yourself - honoring your feelings and needs rather than feeling anxious and worried
• building confidence in your own Truth rather than feeling nagging self-doubt and inadequacy
• gaining freedom from psychological traps from the past - negative self-talk

Couples Working Together by:

• remembering and rekindling the ‘spark’ and qualities that you valued about each other in the beginning
• learning the language of intimate feelings beyond anger, frustration, irritation
• attracting empathic understanding from your partner rather than defensiveness
• learning how to identify and ask for your needs in respectful ways
• learning effective problem-solving skills
• turning conflict into closeness

Families Working Together by:

• learning about your particular parenting style and how it complements your spouses’ style
• learning about age-appropriate limits for children and teens
• learning how to implement consistent structure and consequences in the home
• learning how to create a loving, respectful home atmosphere

Building a Strong Recovery from Addictions by:

• working together on building Recovery Support
• utilizing Recovery Packet and Tools for Sobriety
• creating a Recovery Structure in your life

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