Services & Specialties

Couples Counseling (Married or Unmarried) –Is your communication not what you want it to be? Are you having difficulties being emotionally or physically intimate? Do you react with negative emotions to each other? Are you having difficulty trusting or loving your partner? Do you or your partner push away when the other wants to be close? Do you or your partner constantly try to prove who is more right? Do you just want to be heard and not criticized? Do you find it hard to feel like you and your partner are on the same side? Do you sometimes wonder where the person is that you started your relationship with? Are you hoping that marital counseling or conjoint counseling will work for you?

There is hope. You are not alone. These are difficulties that can be worked through.

Adolescent and Family Counseling –Everyone has different amounts of stress that can be tolerated. When acting-out, poor behavior, and conflict occur, these are signals that stress levels may be too high. Effective tools can be learned by family members to build healthier patterns of interaction and loving/supportive relationships. Children can handle less stress than adults, including stress of losing parents or loved ones through separation, divorce, or death. Counseling that combines talking with playing allows your child to express their emotions and learn to cope with their stress in a healthy way.

Build healthy and supportive family relationships that can affect generations.

Individual Counseling –Individual issues and concerns can sometimes negatively affect partner, family, friend, and co-worker relationships; Working through these issues and concerns and better understanding how they relate to various relationships in your life can help you gain perspectives in your life’s journey. Whether these concerns come from having difficulty managing stress, anger, sadness, depression, fear, or anxiety, there is hope for you. Your experiences matter and the difficulties you face deserve to be heard.

You are not alone. There are many ways to manage your concerns. Your voice matters.

Producing Change Through Psychotherapy

There are two keys to psychotherapy. Awareness and Change. Together we will work toward providing you with a larger awareness and insight into the difficulties and challenges that you are facing in your life. We will help you to work through those obstacles until they are no longer in your way or are at least more manageable. Each week you will be able to take steps toward a healthier you. You will feel more centered and more like you. You are important, your feelings and experiences are important, what you have to offer is important. Let's work toward helping you through difficulties that you are having in your life in a safe and non-judgmental environment. I will support you through life.

Christian Counseling

Is your faith important to you? Is having someone who understands your faith important to you? If so, then feel free to share how your faith supports you in your life's journey. Together we will explore the difficulties, challenges, issues and concerns that you are having. We will look at the current support you are gaining from your faith community. Whether you have a more church-going faith or a more spiritual relationship with God or both, we can talk about how these can offer you support through the difficulties you are having. Once we assess the concerns you have, you are welcome to express your feelings and share your experiences and together we can work toward achieving your goals.

Pre-Marital Counseling

Many people seek counseling when they have a problem. What if you took preventative steps to ensure a healthier marriage? Learn how to build a firm foundation that your marriage can stand on. Marriage is has many transitions happening within. I am a certified provider of the Prepare-Enrich program. I am here to help.

Learn healthier patterns of interaction, Learn how to work together and argue less, Learn how your past and childhood are currently influencing your relationship and what you can do to make changes toward a better and happier you within your relationship. Whatever challenges you may be coming across, if you are willing to explore yourself and your relationship, I can help, call today.

Anger Management and Emotion Regulation

Utilizing both psychoeducation and a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy approach, together we will work toward bringing a greater awareness to your anger and your process when becoming anger. We will look at triggers associated with childhood wounds and events through your lifespan that contribute to your anger. We will work toward helping you to gain control over your anger and minimize aggressive and impulsive acts. You will learn meditation and relaxation techniques that will help you to relieve your stress and tension and help you to cool down when you are angry. Through all of the learned tools and techniques, you will be able to manage your anger and not let your anger manage you.

Depression and Mood Management

Depression and Anger often go hand in hand. Depression and being unhappy can come from a variety of sources. We will explore sources of the depression and help you through any anger, self-esteem issues, sadness, hopelessness, blame, shame, guilt, and other feelings associated with the depression. Clients will learn how to recognize negative thoughts and reframe them into positive thoughts, how to increase self-esteem and manage any anger, how to differentiate what is within one's control and what is not, and how to live with and manage depression and not let depression manage you. Together, we will get you through it. There is hope.

Anxiety and Stress Management

Do you look at things in an all or nothing manner? Does a negative event feel bigger than it may actually be, and do your thoughts reinforce this to be true? Do you focus attention on negative thoughts and disregard positive ones? Do you make judgments in a negative manner without having all the facts and later dismiss this experience and forget about it after finding out the truth? Do you personalize other people's actions/words as personal attacks toward you? Do you label yourself or put yourself down? Do you feel like you are worrying too much about specific things or everything? Do you have fears or stress that get in your way in one or more areas? Are you overwhelmed? If so, I can help.

Grief / Loss / Adjustment to Changes and Life Transitions

I can understand what it means to grieve and what it means to lose someone or something. Whether it be the loss of a loved one to death, the loss of a relationship, the loss of a job, the loss of a friend or family member, the loss of a partner or parent through divorce or separation, grieving happens. Each person experiences grief in a different way. We will talk about the stages of grief and loss to bring awareness of them to you and I will support you through these stages. Together we will work to return a sense of normalcy to your life and the ability to keep going despite the difficulties. What/whom is lost won't be forgotten and we will work to help you not lose yourself along the way.

Family Therapy Approaches

Utilizing Structural Family Therapy and Family Systems Theory/Therapy, I will help you to be more aware of unhealthy behavioral and cognitive patterns of interaction. We will work together to establish rules, roles, boundaries, communication, and whatever is needed to help you and your family work together in a healthier and happier manner. Through positive interactions that are modeled and practiced within a safe place at the counseling center, you and your family can apply these interactions to your daily lives and work together to build a firmer foundation for your family.

Career Counseling

Are you unsure of what career path to take? Are you in a current career or job that doesn't seem to be taking you where you want to be? Do you currently feel stuck at your current job? Are you interested in pursuing a different career? Are you feeling unmotivated with your current job? Does it feel overwhelming at times? Are you not sure what you should do? If you answered yes to any of these questions, I can help you work toward trusting yourself, becoming more motivated and organized, and work toward achieving your career goals.