Services
- Individual
About My Clients
The complexity and pace of our daily lives has made the urgency of adaptable change a priority. We need to cultivate skillfulness at addressing how our thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors are blocking the progress we strive to achieve in our relationships, with ourselves, and out in the world. Symptoms can be lifelong, situational, or due to a sudden stressor. My goal is to increase your sense of confidence, and competence in meeting life's challenges via realistic and solution focused strategies.
My Background and Approach
My work experience includes: inpatient, residential, IOP, outpatient community counseling, and substance abuse/recovery. I am a graduate of the Columbia University, Teachers College Counseling Psychology program, and have worked as a counselor for 26 years. My approach is eclectic, because there is no "one size fits all" for anyone. I lean heavily on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness Practice, psychodynamic, and DBT based interventions to help you move forward. Specializations include: mood disorders, anxiety, substance abuse/recovery, PTSD, life transitions, and burnout.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
"We don't know what we don't know" - no joke intended! I believe it's important to have an objective, clinical observer to assist in raising self awareness, so that the unique YOU can be integrated and skillfully woven into the fabric of a life you create for yourself. We are not here to be perfect human beings, but we can always imagine doing better, to become more astute at knowing when and how to effect healthy change. The art of being human is not to be mastered - but experienced - hopefully doing our best. So why not accept the challenges of this human journey with more resilience, bravery, and a curiosity to learn?