Individual Therapy
Exploring our feelings is like staring down a dark alley – we just don’t want to go there alone. The safety of the therapy office is one of the few protected places we have to sit with our concerns and examine the stories we tell ourselves about our own lives. In individual therapy, the working relationship and trust that develop between therapist & client is the underlying agent for change.
Our behaviors are governed by our feelings and our histories. As we identify not only what we are feeling, but where that feeling is coming from, we can make choices about where to go with those feelings and foster growth.
“We don’t see things as they are. We see them as we are.”
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Couples Therapy
Relationships are dynamically interdependent cycles. Each partner has the capacity to bring survival strategies and coping mechanisms from other parts of their life. In couples therapy, we look at the interrelationship between your histories, temperaments and communication styles and develop tools to reintegrate closeness, empathy, trust and transparency. The trick is not waiting too long to address patterns that aren’t working.
Parenting Support
“There is such a thing as the perfect parent – it’s someone who hasn’t had kids yet.”
Many variables can interfere with having the parent/child relationship we envisioned. How does a parent support and empower their child without overprotecting or enabling? How does a parent hold firm and reasonable boundaries without jeopardizing emotional connection? How does a parent maintain closeness when they feel a child of any age pulling away? Sometimes our attempts to control a situation end up creating a bigger problem.
The relationship we have with our young, teen and even adult children requires continual flexibility to adapt to the changes that occur within families over time.