Individual Therapy 

I see adults, adolescents, and children who are challenged with mood disorders, the affect of trauma, behavior issues, learning disabilities, and life transitions.

From Mindfulness, Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and many techniques in between, I will find a process that works best for you.

It is all about you.

That statement usually means that you’re being selfish or self-centered.

But in individual therapy, it really is all about you.

Many times, individuals go to therapy and want to get advice about how to make someone else in their lives change.

You can’t change anyone except yourself.

Therefore, the focus is on you.

The counselor can’t fix you. You must make the necessary changes to bring contentment into your life.

What attitude adjustments do I need to make? What changes are necessary?

Those questions are asked and answered in individual therapy.

What happens in individual therapy?

Individual therapy is a partnership with you and your counselor to identify things that cause you distress.

Together, we’ll develop and carry out a plan to overcome the anguish.

After the initial assessment, a treatment plan is created specific to you.

That treatment plan will be followed using strategies and interventions in which we have training and experience.



Couple Counseling

 Discover Your Love Map

Couples don’t stay together for 5, 10, 15, 25 years, and longer, because there are no disagreements.

All couples fight.

Love maps are the roadways to fair fighting.

Couples don’t stay together because of the passion.

As you get older, the sex is more mundane.

Couples stay together because they develop a strong marital friendship.

Love maps are the roadways to getting to know your partner in a way that results in you becoming best friends forever.

Love is not a feeling.

Healthy relationships are built on love. Love is a verb. It’s the practices and the couple’s behavior when they engage with one another.

Being critical, defensive, contemptuous, or stonewalling toward each other negates any verbal declaration of love.

When any of these attitudes creep into your interaction with one another, it’s time to seek help.

The success of relationship therapy depends on how engaged each partner is in the process.

For Couples and Marital Therapy, we use interventions based on The Gottman Method for Healthy Relationships. This method helps couples increase their overall closeness, respect, and affection through “love maps.”

If either person is distracted during the session, or fails to do the between sessions activities, it is much less likely that the therapy will have a positive outcome.

More importantly, you should seek help as early as possible during your disagreement.



To get your relationship back on track, call me.

Family Therapy

Just because your family doesn’t look like the early ‘50s Leave it to Beaver family, doesn’t mean it’s not functional.

It becomes dysfunctional when the chaos and/or emotional pain threatens the integrity of the family structure.

Families, like individuals, have their own unique personalities.

If you think you have a dysfunctional family, then learn how to relate to one another in healthier ways.

Family Therapy helps build stronger families.

I offer support to families and help them develop better communication skills.

Family therapy also encompasses “empty-nest” syndrome – that inability to let go of adult children when they move out on their own, including going to college.

Parents can learn positive parenting skills and how to relate to their children, no matter what developmental stage the child is experiencing.

Therapy can address the stressors associated with divorce. Or even the loss of an immediate family member through death.

I find that solution-focused family therapy and structural family therapy has worked very well for family therapy.  Call me - it will work for you, too.