Welcome
Everyone experiences difficult or emotional times when they need extra support. You may feel that you aren’t coping well with the daily demands of life. Perhaps life events have overwhelmed your ability to cope with them. You may need information to help make important decisions about marital relationships, parenting, work, or life transitions. Here you will find some resources and information to help you take the next step. If you would like to contact me directly, please feel free to do so. Please click on the links to the left for more information about specific areas of my work. The FAQs link will answer the most common questions people have about therapy services. I have two main areas of practice: a general therapy practice (families, adults and children), and Collaborative Divorce Coaching. In addition, I include some information about my work with police officers and firefighters.
How can therapy help?
- We will work together to find ways to preserve, restore, and heal relationships that matter to you. We can also work to help you heal from the grief and loss of relationships, through divorce, death, or abandonment. Whether you are dealing with a normal grief reaction or a more chronic depression, or anxiety, therapy has been shown to be effective in helping people recover and return to a state of being that allows you to feel better, and function better in your work and family.
- You may find yourself stuck and wondering how to move forward. I help people focus on what matters most to them. We will identify your goals, interests and needs. We will then find and together evaluate the information you need to move forward toward the goals you have clarified for yourself.
- I will coach and teach you new skills to better manage stress, parenting concerns, and life changes. I will help you learn new decision-making and problem-solving skills that will extend far beyond the issues that might bring you to seek psychological services.
- We can work together to help you free yourself from burdens you have carried for years. Liberated from the old "baggage" of the past, you can reclaim yourself and your life.
- You may notice that your child has become withdrawn, fearful, or is more irritable than usual. Perhaps you feel you are losing control over your child’s behavior or you don’t understand why your child isn’t doing as well as he or she could in school or socially. Perhaps you have consulted with his or her pediatrician about things you observe that concern you. I help children (and their parents) overcome problems that may seem overwhelming, and build skills to lead happy, successful, and balanced lives.
- In couple or family therapy we focus on improving communication, repairing relationships, conflict management, behavioral changes, or any other issue that needs attention. The work is generally goal-focused. The benefit of this work is that you and your loved ones will learn to know each other in deep, meaningful and important ways, which will extend far beyond the therapy hour.
Collaborative Divorce Coaching
- Divorce is one of the most painful experiences one can have in life. I help people who are considering divorce or have already made the decision to separate. Collaborative Practice is a new way for you to divorce respectfully and without going to court.
- Divorce coaching is not therapy. Our work together focuses on support and guidance through the collaborative divorce process, including the creation of a parenting plan. This work is in the context of a team which includes your attorney, as well as your spouse’s coach and attorney.
- As your collaborative divorce coach, I will help you manage the many decisions, questions, concerns, and strong emotions that inevitably come up. Many of the decisions you will be called upon to make may seem overwhelming and life-changing. Yet this is coming at a time when you may feel quite emotionally vulnerable. You need the support and guidance of a coach who can help you sort through all of these issues to make well-thought-out decisions while moving to balance your life again.
- We will help you create a road-map for yourself and your future as you move on and recover after the divorce. This may include decisions about work or career, parenting, and co-parenting. I am passionate about my work as a collaborative divorce coach because it helps heal families and children from the powerful loss and often traumatic experience of divorce.
Are you an Emergency Responder or family member?
- Police officers, fire-fighters, and other emergency responders face unique challenges in their jobs. The many traumas they may experience go far beyond the scope of most human experience.
- Married to a police officer, I am well familiar with the culture of emergency responders and have years of experience in working with them. If you are an emergency responder, please click to learn about WCPR.
- The families of emergency responders face unique issues. These include the impact of shift work, vicarious trauma, and the toll that the job can take on the family. I work with spouses and partners of emergency responders to help them deal with the intense stresses of this work. Please see the information about SOS on this page.
