Services
- Individual
- Couples
- Adolescent/Teen
- Group
About My Clients
I enjoy working with people who are interested in tapping into the deeper places and understanding why they might feeling or behaving in certain ways. I want to help people find ways to build self-compassion and learn to love themselves, warts and all.
My Background and Approach
I am focused on helping clients build skills to become more able at regulating their emotions and challenging negative thoughts. By building skills along with gaining insight into the patterns of our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, we can help create more satisfaction and fulfillment in our life. I believe the brain naturally focuses its power on trying to find solutions to problems, typically focusing on the negative and beating ourselves up about the thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that we struggle with. One part of my practice is utilizing mindfulness techniques that can provide insight, build positive thinking, and promote self-compassion.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I am a spiritual person who believes in the interdependence of life. Everything is connected and everything has value. Finding that value and understanding of interconnectedness can help us embrace the things we struggle with. I have been studying Buddhism for the last 10 years and I can see how similar Buddhist theory is to psychology. The Buddha and Buddhist philosophy teaches a way of working with the mind and understanding the mind and our interaction with reality. Before then I studied Christianity and went through a long dark night of the soul. It took me years to come back to my faith in God and Jesus Christ and can now see how all the wisdom traditions are connected in truth. I practice therapy and try to live my life from those truths and recognize their value in living a content and happy life. I feel that mindfulness and meditation assists us with understanding the limited amount of control that we have over what happens to us.