Services
- Individual
- Family
- Child
- Adolescent/Teen
About My Clients
Are you watching your child or teenager struggle — and feeling powerless to help? Maybe it’s the meltdowns that seem to come out of nowhere. Maybe it’s the silence — the child who used to fill every room and now barely comes out of their bedroom. Maybe it’s the school calls, the stomachaches every morning, the friendships that have quietly slipped away. Whatever it is, you know something is wrong. And you’ve been trying to figure out what to do about it for longer than you want to admit.
My Background and Approach
My philosophy of therapy is client-centered and relational. I meet the child or teen on their level, focusing on their strengths. I use their strengths and interests as a springboard to teaching them skills and coping strategies to conquer their struggles. I use an eclectic and integrative approach which focuses on the client and the client’s individual needs. I employ strategies and interventions from different therapeutic models and philosophies to ensure that my approach is focused on the needs and struggles of each individual client. Some of the approaches I draw from are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Behavior Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), emotion-focused therapy, solution focused therapy, play therapy, and many others. I am committed to empowering my clients and their parents and helping them to achieve their goals.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I understand that feeling in a way that goes beyond clinical training. I am the mother of a child who struggled with Generalized Anxiety Disorder, ADHD, and OCD. I know what it is to sit with the fear, the frustration, and the helplessness of watching your child hurt and not knowing how to help. That experience — and the transformation I watched my son make — is what led me to become a therapist. Today, he is thriving in college, managing his anxiety and ADHD with tools he built in therapy. That transformation is possible for your child, too.