Services
- Individual
- Child
- Adolescent/Teen
About My Clients
My passion is in working with children, adolescents, and adults who experience stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. My goal is to provide a safe, judgment-free environment for healing. When a client comes for services, I look at them with compassion, listen to them with genuine curiosity and attention, and consider them as collaborative, equal participants in their own healing. I bring my openness, curiosity, humor, and empathy into sessions as I help clients in sharing their stories.
My Background and Approach
I am a licensed Professional Counselor with over 15 years of work experience in the mental health field. My devotion to my family brought me to study the impact of early childhood experiences on development and growth. My goal is to educate children, parents, teens, and adults on how experiences can mold and shape our brains, functioning, and well-being. I graduated from NJ Caldwell University Master’s Program in 2008. My career began at non-profit mental health agency where I provided crisis intervention, assessment, and counseling to clients ages 2 to late adulthood. My focus was providing support, referral, and advocacy for victims of domestic violence, abuse, and neglect. In my long career, I have observed the long-term negative impact of stress, abuse, neglect, and mental health needs of children and how it transcended into adulthood. I further learned firsthand the positive effects of incorporating evidence-based mental health treatment.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Everyone deserves to feel supported during difficult times, capable of handling life's challenges, and feel connected with the people they love. Everyone has the right to find Wellness. I see Wellness encompassing 3 major elements: One: Support: Having someone to help you understand your needs can make all the difference. An expert to connect you to resources and help you increase your understanding of the available tools to maintain and improve your mental health is very important. Two: Healing and Connecting. I believe that once you are well equipped with the right tools to connect with the people around you, resolving conflicts with others is within reach. It is never too late to connect and build healthy relationships. Three: Development and Growth. My strategy has always been empowering adults, parents, children, and youth to becoming the best YOU. Therapy is finding yourself, your strengths, battling your challenges, understanding yourself and finding peace.