These thoughts, feelings and challenges can be exhausting, and your response to them can rob you of confidence, clarity and peace, and keep you from taking the steps that create the full, vital and meaningful life that you want.

 

 

 

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I can provide a safe, non-judgmental and supportive space for growth, as well as help you learn effective tools and skills that will help you handle life's challenges more effectively and make the changes and improvements you seek in your life. Even if you feel you've already tried everything to feel better or to address your struggles, or even if counseling didn't help much in the past, take the time to read on or chat further with me. I'd love to share the powerful and unique ways that I might help you get untangled from your unhelpful thoughts and feelings and find your way back to YOU and what you value. 

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My go-to approach tends to be Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) which is an evidence-based (proven) form of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) that has a unique way of dealing more effectively with the negative and self-defeating self-talk that hooks us, jerks us around and keeps us from behaving in ways that are consistent with our values. ACT helps people be more present in their lives, let go of unhelpful thoughts, feelings, expectations and rules they hold too tightly, and actively commit to doing what is needed to create the lives they want to live. ACT turns entrenched ways of being on their head, and provides real skills for dealing with our flawed human selves and tendency to cause ourselves a lot of suffering. I also incorporate specific DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy) skills that align well with ACT, and also bring the expanding body of research from the field of "Positive Psychology" (study of human thriving) to the table to apply "what works" to improve life satisfaction and flourishing. I do a lot of work with helping clients understand what is going on with their nervous systems and brains, and helping them retrain and switch states more easily. To help with this, I offer training in various mindfulness practices, as well as a form of biofeedback called HeartMath that can help you achieve a state of "coherence" where you are at peace, focused, able to connect and communicate well with others and be creative. To assist with trauma, and anxiety, PTSD, etc. I also provide EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing), and a related approach called Flash Technique (FT) that is a brief intervention that helps with intrusive and painful memory processing. See my page on Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) for more information on that approach.

 

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One more thing: the work we do together won't just be about talk. While talking is an important component to therapy, we will also actively learn and practice new ways of thinking, being and relating. This may include experiential activities, practicing skills, workbook activities, and "little experiments" to try both in and outside of sessions. Even if therapy hasn't worked for you before, this active, intentional and deliberate approach may make the difference for you.