I take special pride counseling people in these additional areas:

• Identifying and fostering healthy relationships

• Assertiveness without guilt

• Being overly responsible

• Recovering from the effects of being involved with another person suffering from an addiction (either current or historical)

• Emotional growth (identification and acceptance of emotions in self and others)

• Identifying ones own wants and needs

• Value identification

• Understanding and changing unhealthy life patterns

 What is Therapy?

Therapy is often described as a combination of science and art. The scientific part includes the many evidenced-based theories which your therapist uses to help you reach your goals. The artistic part of therapy is the individual way each therapist applies these ideas, their personality, and style differences. Both of these combined determine how well your therapist is or is not a fit for you.

The treatment approaches and theories I am most familiar with are:

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

• Motivational Interviewing (MI)

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

• Attachment Theory

• Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

• Solution Focused Therapy (SFT)

• Internal Family Systems (IFS)

• Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT)

My style (or art) is collaborative, respectful of boundaries, interactive, hopeful, consistent, encouraging, compassionate, introspective, humorous, and engaging.