Does your child have trouble dealing with their emotions? Is their behavior sometimes disruptive to your home life? Have they experienced sudden loss or trauma? As they grow, children and adolescents develop social skills and emotional intelligence. This awareness helps them to develop into healthy, happy, and successful individuals. But some children have trouble processing their emotions and this often leads to behavior that negatively impacts their school life, home life and overall well-being. Therapy offers children and adolescents a safe space to work through their thoughts and emotions. With the help of a specialized therapist, children can resolve problems, modify behaviors, and make positive and lasting changes.

Is anxiety taking over your life? Does it feel like you can’t control it no matter how hard you try? Have you already tried therapy but found it ineffective? If this sounds like you, I’m confident I can help. My practice offers the most effective forms of treatment, to get the relief from anxiety that you deserve. When it comes to treating anxiety disorders, research shows that therapy is usually the most effective option. That’s because anxiety therapy – as opposed to anxiety medication – treats more than just symptoms to the problem.

Most people will experience trauma in their lifetime whether it’s a car accident, abuse or neglect, the sudden death of a loved one, a violent criminal act, exposure to the violence of war, or a natural disaster. While many people can recover from trauma over time with the love and support of family and friends and bounce back with resiliency, others may discover effects of lasting trauma, which can cause a person to live with deep emotional pain, fear, confusion, or posttraumatic stress far after the event has passed. In these circumstances, the support, guidance, and assistance of a therapist is fundamental to healing from trauma.

Couples and marriage counseling helps to address the intimacy and communication issues in the relationship. Every relationship goes through hard times, and meeting with a therapist can help identify the struggles each individual is facing as well as the needs and strengths of the couple together.  Marriage and couples counseling focuses on increasing the communication skills and intimacy in the relationship.  As a couple you will identify the goals together to help build a better future.

EMDR therapy is an integrative psychotherapy method that uses a technique called bilateral stimulation to repeatedly activate opposite sides of the brain. Therapists often use eye movements to facilitate bilateral stimulation. These eye movements mimic the period of sleep referred to as rapid eye movement or REM sleep, and this portion of sleep is frequently considered to be the time when the mind processes the recent events in the person’s life.

Individual counseling is when the identified client meets one on one to work with the counselor. The clinician and the client will work together to assess and set specific goals by identifying what the client wants to work. The counselor and client will meet either weekly or as needed to meet the goals.

For children, we will meet one on one after an introductory process during the assessment. The parent or guardian is always welcome in the session. For the initial session, the parents will meet with the clinician to discuss needs and concerns and complete assessments. Together, as a family, goals will be identified. The therapist will then meet one on one with the child, and will bring parents in at the end of session to discuss topics covered and how to support the child.

Individual counseling is when the identified client meets one on one to work with the counselor. The clinician and the client will work together to assess and set specific goals by identifying what the client wants to work. The counselor and client will meet either weekly or as needed to meet the goals.

For children, we will meet one on one after an introductory process during the assessment. The parent or guardian is always welcome in the session. For the initial session, the parents will meet with the clinician to discuss needs and concerns and complete assessments. Together, as a family, goals will be identified. The therapist will then meet one on one with the child, and will bring parents in at the end of session to discuss topics covered and how to support the child.

Have you experienced a traumatic event? Are you suffering from lingering fear and anxiety? Do you feel like you no longer have any control over how you think, feel, and behave?

Posttraumatic stress disorder – also known as PTSD – is a mental health challenge that may occur in individuals who have experienced or witnessed a traumatic event such as a natural disaster, a terrorist act, an act of war, a serious accident, rape, or any other violent personal assault.