Individual Therapy
The individual counseling that I offer is based on a strong relationship with my clients, a participatory style, an approach steeped in mindfulness and the invitation to dive into the deep waters of one’s inner world. While counseling goals vary, a consistent experience is one of transformation of the relationship to self, increased self-awareness and sense of empowerment, and the confidence to navigate life and its innate changes and challenges.
Couples Coaching
Couples counseling involves working with both individuals from the perspective of supporting and strengthening the relationship. Together, as a team, we address areas such as deepening intimacy and trust, changing and improving communication so that each partner begins to feel heard and understood, resolving past events or betrayals and improving compatibility. Working from the premise of creating a conscious relationship, couples are guided and supported in establishing and maintaining a new normal.
Family Counseling
My family counseling approach is to work with each family as a whole system, defining and increasing family strengths and addressing areas such as ineffective communication and parent-child power struggles. Families involved in counseling typically find an improvement in solving problems, enhanced and deepened communication between all members, an increase in trust and trustworthiness, and overall improved family functioning. My background includes working with multi-stressed, restructured, blended and nuclear families as well as parents learning to co-parent after separation or divorce.
Group Work
Group work is an extension of participation in a retreat. Currently, there are two types of group work offered. One is a spiritually focused group, entitled Waking Up: Living and Loving Consciously and the second are Diving Deeper groups, which focus on building support and community around conscious relationship. The groups are semi-structured, with either an activity and/or focus for the month, as well as time for sharing and connecting with other group members.
Areas of Focus
Mindfulness
Many feel that life is passing by ever more quickly, and while many good moments occur, they are missed as one anticipates or plans for the next. Mindfulness, or the “ability to be fully present in the moment” is a foundational aspect to my work. Whether it is part of a deeper spiritual path, or simply a philosophy, once integrated, that offers the possibility of living life’s moments to their fullest, I offer tools and practices to clients that guide the embodiment of this powerful teaching.
Spirituality
For many, personal work includes exploring and deepening spirituality. With respect for various backgrounds and beliefs, I invite direct experience to guide the process and compliment the other personal work being done.
Depression
Depression affects nearly everyone at some point in their life. It can include feelings of pervasive sadness, hopelessness or simply a lack of joy, lasting for months when untreated. My approach involves treating the depression as well its underlying causes to provide immediate relief and long term resolution. A focus on both effective strategies to address depression and changing the relationship to depression itself is offered. From a new vantage point, not only is there a possibility of decreased symptoms of depression, but the potential gifts it brings are realized.
Grief/Loss
Experiencing significant loss, including but not limited to the death of a loved one, can be one of the most important experiences in life. Understanding the process, both from learning what to expect as well as knowing one’s own personal process is a critical part of healing. Not going through the process alone is also tremendously helpful for some. I work with clients experiencing loss and grief as they discover what healing and adjustment means to them on their own individual journey.
Anxiety
Like depression, anxiety occurs with many people, although its forms may vary. Irritability, compulsive or obsessive thoughts or behaviors, physiological sensations such as a racing heart and sweaty palms or an extreme need for control are all hallmarks of anxiety. My approach is an integrated one based in increasing the sense of peace and inner well-being through mindfulness and other practices while working directly with the fears to obtain a new sense of freedom.
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