Services
- Individual
About My Clients
Welcome, it takes motivation and courage to reach out for assistance with life's challenges, and whether or not you feel we are a good fit, I greatly appreciate you taking time to review my profile. Presently, I work with adults experiencing difficulties in: pursuit of higher education, job/income loss, depression, anxiety, relationship problems, homelessness, anger management, incarceration, self-esteem issues, historical/ancestral trauma, micro-aggressions, chronic pain and loss of supports.
My Background and Approach
During graduate school I focused on Clinical Social Work and also Inter-group Dialogue. This enhanced my abilities at facilitating conversations that strive to create new levels of understanding, relating, and action. My skills were further sharpened, while working in Los Angeles, Seattle and then internationally with a range of individuals in areas of: New Zealand, Fiji, Australia, South Africa and Egypt. After traveling, I settled in Hawaii where I spent over ten years advocating and working with individuals dealing with multiple mental health diagnoses alongside poverty and housing instability. Though I continue to advocate, I opened up my own therapy practice in 2019. I tend to draw from Cognitive Behavioral and Person-Centered therapies but I believe in an Integrative Therapy approach, seeing that it can be a combination of therapies that can be more inclusive, flexible and likely allowing more collaboration between client and therapist.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Curiosity is key to empathy, understanding, advocacy and change.