Change is possible. And with my hope-focused approach to therapy, clients begin to believe their goals are obtainable; goals for healthier, more fulfilling relationships, goals for contentment and satisfaction in daily living, and goals for a prosperous future.

I am passionate about my work and consider it an honor and a privilege to serve my clients. During counseling sessions I'm interactive and strategic by including aspects of education/teaching, role-modeling, and motivating while remaining focused, emotionally engaged, and respectful. My clients describe me as an intuitive, active-listener who offers feedback, grace-filled confrontation, humor and compassion as I assist them in their exploration of self. Together we develop a plan, a clinical map to follow as we journey together in problem identification and solving, while honoring the therapeutic relationship and its importance in the therapy process. As a Cognitive-Behavioral therapist, I am actively involved in sessions as we:

• Explore pay-offs to dysfunctional thinking and behavior
• Identify and challenge faulty belief systems
• Address our relationship to our thoughts, feelings, urges, and actions
• Discover stuck points
• Recognize central values
• Change patterns of thinking and behaving
• Create paradigm shifts
• Develop boundaries
• Strengthen communication
• Build conflict resolution skills

When we are more skilled at responding to upsetting things that others say and do, we are better able to shift emotional states away from hurt and self-protection/self-defense mechanisms toward true, authentic intimacy. I am goal-oriented, and it is my desire to be an instrument of healing change, offering support as I provide professional yet user-friendly guidance in a compassionate and effective manner.