Let’s co-create a space where healing can happen.
Are you struggling with?
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Sometimes you can feel the most lonely when you are with a partner. Perhaps you start sharing less of your thoughts in hopes of preserving some sort of peace. Maybe you are at a place where you are doubting whether you should stay or not. But whatever communication skills you need, you no longer have to journey through without direction. In couple's counseling, one of many goals will be to slow down your cycle, so that you can start responding in ways that are honorable to yourself, and honorable to your partner. Come in so that you can find ‘IntoMeSee’ again.
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Grief can come in many forms: losing a loved one, losing a job you love, moving to a new place, feelings of missing out, or struggling with infertility. Counseling can help you find ways to create space for grief in your life and understanding the many stages of it. Sometimes it’s not something that truly goes away and more about finding out how to control its intensity when the waves show up.
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Living with depression can look different for everyone. For some, it can look like masking, forcing a smile or laughter when you don’t feel it or a different extreme like becoming a workaholic. You’ll do anything to distract or hide the feelings – from yourself and the people around you. For others, it can range from difficulty making decisions to not being able to get out of bed. Together, we can find ways to help you cope with your symptoms and live a fulfilling life.
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Suicidal ideation is when you are thinking of suicide, such as taking your own life and how. You can find help and support through counseling, where we will create a safety plan, including emotion regulation, identifying thoughts, feelings, and conditions, and reshaping your thinking and behaviors to keep you safe and feeling better.
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Domestic abuse can come in many types – physical, emotional, sexual – and from many different people – partners, parents, leadership, extended family, friends. No matter what abuse you have experienced, healing can feel unobtainable when we haven’t even recognized that we’re stuck in that loop. We will start with you, processing the traumas you have experienced in a safe environment, helping you trust yourself and find out how the abuse has impacted your life. What hypervigilance is no longer necessary? Together, we can identify what it feels like to feel safe and worthy again.
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Many have faced spiritual abuse, where they feel spiritual or religious beliefs have been used against them to scare, control, or negatively influence them. This can cause confusion, not only in your identity, but also the role the church plays in your life and your view or relationship with God. You can find healing through counseling. Together, we will explore your experiences, how your relationships have been deeply affected, and help you find the autonomy and relationship(s) you were created for.
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Anxiety are feelings of fear, worry, or dread, and our reactions often vary. From mild feelings of discomfort, to major disruptions including physical distress, anxiety can hinder your ability to live life. Counseling can help you navigate through the triggers you know you have as well as help you identify what brings on the feelings of anxiety. Let’s develop more tools to help you manage it and live your life more freely.
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Coping skills are important tools to help you positively manage what you are facing – everything from anxiety and depression to grief and burnout. Together, we will explore and identify the tools that work best for you to help you not just get by like before, but finally thrive.
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How we see ourselves is so important to living a full life. Our self-esteem is impacted not only by the way we see or think of ourselves but also by the people we are surrounded by. Together, we can work to identify your strengths, using those to build a more positive and truthful view of who you are and how you value yourself. Let’s replace those negative cognitions and embrace what’s true.
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Self-harm is when you hurt yourself to manage emotions, intrusive thoughts, experiences, or situations. It can be used to either bring a sense of feeling when you are numb, or as an escape from overwhelming feelings. Through counseling, we can work together to find healthy ways for you to approach those feelings and work through them in safe, positive ways.
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Life transitions, good or bad, can sometimes unearth us in such a way that we start doubting the things and people that once anchored us. Transitions are so challenging when they require us to make the difficult decisions, lose time, suck out our energy, drain our money, and question our dedication. Counseling provides space for you to navigate your transitions, decipher strategically what is challenging you, and what you are looking forward to. Together, we will work to make your transition as seamless and successful as possible.
I want to get to know you to support you best on your healing journey. My approach provides you with psychoeducation—helping you learn more about what you are facing and how to cope with it, being an accountable person for you, and attuning to your needs.
My mission is to serve you with compassion and accountability so you can find transformational change.
The ‘real’ work is done outside the counseling office. But inside the office, when you step into vulnerability, we can co-create a space where goals are explored, identified, and met, with me guiding you every step of the way.
“We bite before getting bitten. The ones we love, pay dearly for the wounds we didn’t attend to. Be gentle on yourself. It’s not your fault. But it’s an expensive price to pay by not taking responsibility…”
My approach in sessions
Inside sessions, I leverage my dynamic life experience with innovative interdisciplinary psychology and counseling skills learned to serve those needing compassion, accountability, and transformational change. I utilize cutting-edge and research-based learnings from Dr. John Townsend (Boundaries book co-author) to guide clients who struggle with their inner-being (depression and anxiety), their relationships (both familial or otherwise), and those who lack career satisfaction. In couples work, Gottman’s Theory is taught to help develop communication skills, create shared meaning, make life dreams come true, manage conflict, invite a positive perspective, turn towards one another, share fondness and admiration, and understand your partner’s psychological love maps. Gestalt exercises, grounding techniques, personality theory, and maximizing the importance of expressing each other’s Love Languages are additional resources that pair nicely for those that seek healing, intimacy, and fulfillment.
I like to share with my clients that the ‘real’ work is done outside the counseling office. But inside the office, when you step into vulnerability, we can co-create a space where goals are explored, identified, and met, with me guiding you every step of the way.
