About My Practice

I work with adults age 18 and older and I am happy to work with clients with cognitive disabilities as long as therapy is appropriate for their individual needs.

I am an ally. My office is also a safe space for cultural and religious diversity.

  • Grief

  • Anxiety

  • PTSD

  • Social Anxiety

  • Stage Fright

  • Panic Disorders

  • Family Problems

  • Sexual Abuse

  • Trauma

  • Women’s Issues

  • Depression (Mild to Moderate)

  • Life Transitions

  • And many other challenges





Who am I

I have a great deal of life experience in the creative arts and I bring that to my work in therapy using my intuition to notice both the details and the bigger picture. Each Client is given attention as an individual who is wonderfully unique with different strengths and life experiences. In a nutshell we will explore together the negative and positive patterns of your life and work on a specific set of goals that you choose when we begin therapy. We will work together using evidenced-based practices to help you towards that goal. It sounds really intense, and it can be hard work, but it can also be adapted to each individual in a creative way. Here are some of the modalities I use.

What I do

Mindfulness – This is a type of meditation that helps bring
our mind into the present so we are not so focused on the past or the future. Here are ways Mindfulness can be adapted for clients: fishing and paying attention to the sensory experiences while enjoying the activity, painting and becoming fully engaged in seeing the subject and recreating the vision, playing basketball and feeling invested in the body as it moves, walking and noticing the beauty of nature with all five senses, playing with your pet and being fully present to their expression of self.

DBT – from Dialectical Behavioral Therapy I utilize techniques
like distress tolerance which is the important life skill of learning to
tolerate being upset or distressed. Life has many stressors and for some people these stressors are so difficult to tolerate that they react physically or with what I call big emotions (which can be big internal emotions as well). Learning to calm the self and to stand in the middle of a stressor takes work and set of coping strategies.

Solution Focused Techniques – just as it sounds using a practical approach

CBT – Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the connection between thought, feelings, and behaviors. Some ways to work on changing our negative patterns are through examining out thoughts and questioning them which works very well in a variety of journaling, poetic and artistic models as well as in straight forward asking ourselves if what we are thinking is actually true. We can also change our behaviors in a variety of ways and not all of them need to be painful or unpleasant. Imagine a parent wanting to help their child increase their reading skills, and creating a treasure map with a really excitingadventure that the child must read in order to solve. For adults it might be changing the way you approach a problem.