How I Can Help
Individual Therapy
Individual Therapy is a unique opportunity to create a space and time to focus on the changes you’d like to make. In this busy life full of self-help materials, social media, and well-meaning family and friends, sometimes our problems become more confusing, and we can begin to feel bogged-down.
You may be in the midst of internal struggles or problems relating to others that you really wish would participate in therapy with you. The good news is that relationships are dynamic. This means that your changes will make a great impact on your relationships - whether or not the other(s) are participating in sessions.
I listen intently to understand you and your unique situation so that I can help uncover new avenues to help you make the changes you’d like to see.
Video sessions are a useful option for those with limitations on time or for distant clients. My Telehealth option is HIPAA compliant and can easily be used with any mobile device that can access the internet.
Couples Therapy
Couple-relationships are complicated and are always evolving. They can be powerfully pleasurable and, at times, powerfully painful. When a couple struggles to “fix things,” oftentimes our other responsibilities suffer, and both experience a general lack of personal joy. Sometimes, despite our best attempts and desires, we can grow to feel hopeless to find comfort in one another again.
It is my work to create a safe place for couples to unpack their pain and find common ground so they can regain a fulfilling relationship. Your initial session will begin with what is going on in the relationship right now. You will both be supported in sharing your story and your hopes for the relationship. Past events will be dealt with as they become relevant and will never be used to assign complete “fault” or “blame”. Mutual enjoyment can only be reached with mutual work.
Self-scheduling online makes it easy to compare schedules so you can find appointments most convenient to you both. My Telehealth platform allows for members to participate through video when one is unable to meet in-office.
Family Therapy
The families we grow up in have a major impact on the families we create. Family Therapy is a place to explore patterns of dysfunction and to learn new ways of relating. There is no other family like yours, and while you may share common traits with each other, each member in your family is unique.
When one member of the family is hurting, it is felt throughout the entire family. Family Therapy is an opportunity to give focused attention to the needs of one another. It acknowledges that we are stronger and happier when we are part of a well-functioning family.
Self-scheduling online makes it easy to compare schedules so you can find appointment times that fit a family’s busy schedule. The added convenience of Telehealth makes therapy a possibility when loved ones are spread out geographically or have tight schedules.
Parent & Adult-Child Therapy
Oftentimes hurt between a parent and child took root during the child-rearing years, and we don’t just “grow out it.” We carry it into our couple-relationships and our relationships with future children and grandchildren. I have a deep appreciation for the importance of improving these relationships and have helped many parent & adult-child relationships come together with a deeper understanding and appreciation for one another.
Self-scheduling online makes it easy to compare schedules so you can find appointment times that fit your schedules. The added convenience of Telehealth makes therapy a possibility when loved ones are spread out geographically or have tight schedules.
How It Works
Telehealth
Telehealth is a term used when you are receiving healthcare through video call. The option of video sessions has many benefits.
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Saves Time
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Eliminates travel
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Opens access of care to long-distance clients
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Adds flexibility when including others in your sessions
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Gives you flexibility to choose telehealth when the unexpected happens
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Operates on any device with internet and is a safe and secure, HIPAA-compliant, platform with no registration or download
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Offers easy access to care in the comfort of your space
​Telehealth is simple and easy to use. Simply follow the instructions listed below:
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Find a comfortable, private, quiet space and eliminate potential for interruptions
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A link will be emailed to you when I am ready to begin your appointment
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Open the email (Firefox, Safari, or Chrome compatible)
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Select the link appropriate for your use
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That’s it! Your session has begun
Benefits
Trauma
Our brains are built to process experiences in a way that make us better off for having had that experience. However, many different factors come into play as we make sense of our experiences, and sometimes this doesn’t happen. Instead, we are left carrying a negative experience into our present-day lives. When triggered, we may experience intrusive memories, undesired physical reactions, upsetting emotional reactions.
This is where a specialized therapy, popularly called EMDR (Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) can be very helpful. This therapy is used in conjunction with other therapy tools so that you are supported throughout the process of integrating the changes into your life and your current relationships.
Depression
While situational depression may clear on its own, clinical depression feels out of alignment with the life around you. While depression has well-defined symptoms, it presents itself differently in each person and affects each person’s life differently. I work with clients to understand exactly where they are and to move them toward a more joyful experience and sense of self.
While I do not prescribe medication, I am able to make referrals for medication consultation when needed.
Anxiety
Anxiety can zap your zest for life. It is exhausting. Anxiety is not the same for everyone and can show itself in many different forms. It can take on many forms from social anxieties, panic attacks, dissociation, depersonalization, defensiveness, and anger problems. It can run in families, result from trauma, or can just be a result of current life situation.
I help clients identify and address the nature of their anxiety and help provide new coping methods, changes in thought patterns, improved life management skills.
Grief
While grief is commonly associated with the death of a loved one, grief can come from many situations, including divorce, job loss, health changes, loss of a friend, or the loss of safety after trauma. Sometimes, we have difficulty moving through grief. This is called complicated grief, and therapy can help by supporting you through the process and helping to identify areas where you are “stuck” so that those areas can be worked through to allow for healing.
As a hospice social worker and grief counselor, I witnessed the many faces of grief. I saw, firsthand, that we all have to find our own way of coping, and the goal is not to “get over it.” You are not alone. I help clients remember the joy of those lost experiences and incorporate that joy in their lives as they move forward.
Adjustment / Transition
From time to time, we all face big and small transitions. Even ones we expect or look forward to—like getting married or having a baby—may feel disruptive or bring on negative feelings we had never anticipated.
Typically therapy in these situations is fairly short term. Yet, in some cases, it may be that deeper issues are creating the difficulty adjusting. Everyone’s situation is different, and your situation will be met with openness to whatever presents itself.
LGBTQIA+ Issues
People who identify as LGBTQIA+, as well as the people who love and support them, may face difficulties accepting themselves or being accepted by others. Many families never anticipated having to cope with these issues and are struggling to make sense of the changes in their lives.
I create a welcoming, safe space for LGBTQIA+ individuals, couples and families to navigate their unique situations related to sexuality and acceptance.
Religious/Cultural Diversity
I have been honored to have learned from and worked with clients of diverse religious and cultural contexts. These include the many denominations of Christianity (including Catholics, Seventh-Day Adventists, Mormons, Episcopalians, Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, and more), Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. I have worked with many Indian American individuals and families, both first and second generation, and have grown a rich knowledge of their unique experiences living in the United States.
Addiction / Codependency
Individuals who are close to addiction and substance abuse may face deep feelings of sorrow, resentment, and confusion about what their role is and is not. Many times, people feel responsible for and desperate to help someone they cannot seem to help, all the while losing a sense of themselves and their self-worth.
Operating an Intensive Outpatient Program for substance abuse disorders showed me how emotionally deflating this struggle can be. I help clients diminish the resentment and increase joy by helping them establish healthy boundaries, recognize the importance of self-care, and identify unhealthy thought patterns.