Individual Therapy [adults only]

Serving adults for issues related to personal growth or long-standing mental health concerns such a s depression and anxiety. I do not serve children or adolescents. I worked with children and parents for numerous years and I have a great deal of training in issues related to parenting and coping with being a new parent, pregnancy and post partum mental health.

Trauma Therapy

Includes deeper therapeutic modalities to help reduce reactivity, low self esteem and trauma memories.  When choosing a trauma therapist, please inquire about specialized training and make sure you feel comfortable with the clinician.

Couples Therapy- not currently accepting

I specialized in marriage and family therapy in graduate school and spent 2.5 years post graduate school, in an intensive training program  for Marriage and Family Therapy at the Gainesville Family Institute. In addition, I have trained in the Gottman model and Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples (EFT) by Sue Johnson, both of which are well researched and effective models.  The primary model I currently use however, is EFT due to it’s power and because it is based on human attachment theory and has a significant amount of research that supports it’s effectiveness.  What I have found is that both men and women equally express that the EFT couples therapy sessions are valuable and encouraging and they describe an improvement in their relationship.

Anxiety and Depression

Depression and anxiety can overwhelm a person and create detrimental symptoms such lack of motivation, negative thought patterns that can lead to low self esteem or a need to fight or argue with others.  Social Anxiety can be extremely debilitating and benefit from a combination of counseling approaches including CBT and mindfulness based therapies such as DBT all of which are evidence based.

Other Areas of Expertise

I have received intensive training in sexual addictions therapy, visualization/hypnotherapy for stress relief and trauma, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. I do not accept clients for hypnosis for smoking cessation, weight management, regressions or other stand alone hypnotherapy services.