In trying times, it is helpful to have someone devoted to your cause. Whether you are facing a life crisis, relationship challenges or personal issues, having someone to help you improve your life and eliminate pain can speed you on our way. As your therapist, I am dedicated to improving your quality of life. I compassionately create the safe haven for your journey and help you find your way through the crisis.
Whether your past haunts you or your life overwhelms you, I will guide you in developing healthy ways of coping and achieving more balance in your life. That is how my therapy works. I can help you find your way. Finding the right therapist can be daunting. You need to find someone with whom you are comfortable enough to confront the difficulties you face and embark on new patterns of coping.
My initial phone consultation with you will give you and I a chance to explore whether I am a good fit for your concerns. Take a moment to learn more about how I work with people. If you are ready to get started, feel free to call me at (916) 678-0798 or you can email me if you would like.
Whether your past haunts you or your life overwhelms you, I will guide you in developing healthy ways of coping and achieving more balance in your life. That is how my therapy works. I can help you find your way. Finding the right therapist can be daunting. You need to find someone with whom you are comfortable enough to confront the difficulties you face and embark on new patterns of coping.
My initial phone consultation with you will give you and I a chance to explore whether I am a good fit for your concerns. Take a moment to learn more about how I work with people. If you are ready to get started, feel free to call me at (916) 678-0798 or you can email me if you would like.
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Individual Therapy
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Adults typically come to therapy because they are feeling dissatisfied or worried, or have some crisis that overwhelms them.
While relief from the symptoms of depression, anxiety or a life crisis is paramount, helping you understand the broader context of your difficulties is what helps change become more permanent.
Understand how patterns are formed (both in behavior and thinking) and how thoughts, feelings and experiences are connected, .
Become aware of the distortions you carry about your own self worth and ways to correct them, .
While relief from the symptoms of depression, anxiety or a life crisis is paramount, helping you understand the broader context of your difficulties is what helps change become more permanent.
Understand how patterns are formed (both in behavior and thinking) and how thoughts, feelings and experiences are connected, .
Become aware of the distortions you carry about your own self worth and ways to correct them, .
Couple Therapy
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Couples tend to come to counseling when they are in serious trouble.
Often a significant amount of pain and suffering has been endured for some time.
Sometimes the couple has grown apart and the partners have lost feelings for each other.
My task is to work to heal these wounds, explore how the couple got off track and teach new strategies for a more satisfying relationship.
Sometimes when a couple starts therapy, their long-standing difficulties have been greatly overshadowed by a betrayal through an emotional or physical affair.
Often a significant amount of pain and suffering has been endured for some time.
Sometimes the couple has grown apart and the partners have lost feelings for each other.
My task is to work to heal these wounds, explore how the couple got off track and teach new strategies for a more satisfying relationship.
Sometimes when a couple starts therapy, their long-standing difficulties have been greatly overshadowed by a betrayal through an emotional or physical affair.
Teen Therapy
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Teens are caught between the playful world of childhood and the adult world of responsibility, and many do not make the transition easily.
Working with teens requires assessing not only them, but their family and their world (school, work, activities).
Once a clear picture of the teen's challenges is developed, my job is to balance the changes desired by the parents with the needs of the teen.
Mastering strategies for dealing with anxiety, depression, or the crisis which brought them into counseling, .
Working with teens requires assessing not only them, but their family and their world (school, work, activities).
Once a clear picture of the teen's challenges is developed, my job is to balance the changes desired by the parents with the needs of the teen.
Mastering strategies for dealing with anxiety, depression, or the crisis which brought them into counseling, .
Child Therapy
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Working with children and their families requires a comprehensive understanding of the child's school situation, family dynamics, and other influences in the child's life.
At times the child's difficulties are best targeted by teaching parents effective parenting skills, or techniques for negotiating with school systems.
Other times a school observation becomes useful in exploring ways to better meet the child's educational needs.
Due to the uniqueness of the child's world, approaches to change usually include working with both the parents and the child.
At times the child's difficulties are best targeted by teaching parents effective parenting skills, or techniques for negotiating with school systems.
Other times a school observation becomes useful in exploring ways to better meet the child's educational needs.
Due to the uniqueness of the child's world, approaches to change usually include working with both the parents and the child.
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Your first step is to call or email me so we can discuss your particular concerns in detail.
Once we determine that I am a good fit for you, we schedule the initial appointment.
At this evaluation appointment we will review your history and current situation, looking at what is working, and what is not.
At the conclusion of this session, we will develop a plan for how I can best help you.
Most of the time I have only a limited number of openings in my practice.
Call me to see if any are available at times that work for you.
Once we determine that I am a good fit for you, we schedule the initial appointment.
At this evaluation appointment we will review your history and current situation, looking at what is working, and what is not.
At the conclusion of this session, we will develop a plan for how I can best help you.
Most of the time I have only a limited number of openings in my practice.
Call me to see if any are available at times that work for you.
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