Individual Psychotherapy for Adults
I provide compassionate, professional, individual psychotherapy services for adults, in order to help facilitate acceptance, healing and growth.
My therapeutic approach is a strengths-based, client-centered perspective. Practicing from a trauma-informed lens, I focus on the "whole person" by looking at mind, body and spirit and incorporate both cognitive behavioral interventions, as well as mindfulness/experiential techniques as appropriate.
After a thorough assessment of your background and needs, together we will develop a treatment plan aimed at helping you achieve the goals you are striving for. I utilize various techniques and treatment modalities tailored to fit your individual needs and goals, including the following:
Ultimately, I believe it is the therapeutic relationship itself that allows you to feel heard, understood and accepted, in order to gain greater clarity and make meaningful and lasting change in your life.
DBT Skills Training for Adults
Although I do not offer comprehensive DBT in my practice at this time, I am intensively trained in DBT through Behavioral Tech, LLC (2010) and have approximately 15 years experience providing both individual and group DBT. I currently practice DBT-informed treatment in order to help clients become more present-focused, manage distress, regulate emotions and improve interpersonal effectiveness, regardless of the presenting issue.
At this time, I am currently not offering DBT Skills Training Group for Adults. Feel free to Contact me should you have specific needs or questions regarding formal DBT Skills Training Groups.
What is EMDR?
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a comprehensive, integrative psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences. Repeated studies show that by using EMDR people can experience the benefits of psychotherapy that once took years to make a difference. It is widely assumed that severe emotional pain requires a long time to heal. EMDR therapy shows that the mind can in fact heal from psychological trauma much as the body recovers from physical trauma. When you cut your hand, your body works to close the wound. If a foreign object or repeated injury irritates the wound, it festers and causes pain. Once the block is removed, healing resumes. EMDR therapy demonstrates that a similar sequence of events occurs with mental processes. The brain's information processing system naturally moves toward mental health. If the system is blocked or imbalanced by the impact of a disturbing event, the emotional wound festers and can cause intense suffering. Once the block is removed, healing resumes. Using the detailed protocols and procedures learned in EMDR training sessions, clinicians help clients activate their natural healing processes. The understanding and awareness gained by the client can result in the client feeling empowered where they once were stuck in the meaning of a painful event.
Click here to learn more about EMDR, or contact me to determine if EMDR may be helpful for you.
What is CBT?
CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) targets distorted or irrational thoughts as a prime source for emotional disturbance and/or dysfunctional behaviors. In stepping back and taking note of our thoughts and the way they influence our emotion and action, we begin the work of developing new and healthier ways of interacting with those thoughts, and so better manage our emotions and behaviors. For example, a person who spends a lot of time thinking about plane crashes, runway accidents, and other air disasters may find themselves avoiding air travel. The goal of cognitive behavior therapy is to teach clients that while they cannot control every aspect of the world around them, they can take control of how they interpret and deal with things in their environment.
Click here to learn more about CBT.
What is DBT?
DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy) developed by Marsha Linehan, Ph.D., ABPP, at the University of Washington, is a comprehensive cognitive-behavioral treatment that was originally developed to treat chronically suicidal individuals suffering from borderline personality disorder (BPD). DBT has been found especially effective for those with suicidal and other multiply occurring severely dysfunctional behaviors. Research has shown DBT to be effective in reducing suicidal behavior, psychiatric hospitalization, treatment dropout, substance abuse, anger, and interpersonal difficulties.
Click here to learn more about DBT.
What is Mindfulness?
"Mindfulness is paying attention on purpose non-judgmentally in the present moment as if your life depended on it." ~Jon Kabat-Zinn
Mindfulness is often described as living with awareness in the present moment, without judgment or attachment to the moment. Being mindful allows us to fully notice, often times allowing us to fully participate in life. There is an increasing body of research highlighting the benefits of incorporating mindfulness practice with more traditional forms of western psychotherapy to help relieve symptoms related to a variety of psychological issues, such as depression, anxiety, anger and impulsivity.
Mindfulness skills help us live life fully in the present moment, often times contributing to greater clarity, gratitude and appreciation, and reduced suffering. We may begin to let go of rumination, future worries and participate more fully in each moment. Furthermore, mindfulness may help us reconnect with ourselves and access inherent resources and strengths we hold. There are numerous ways one may learn and practice mindfulness, including more formal exercises such as breathing, guided imagery, prayer and movement (walking, yoga, dancing, martial arts) to simply intentionally paying attention to the moment at hand while living life. Both EMDR and DBT have large mindfulness components.
Click here to learn more about mindfulness and it's application to psychotherapy.
I provide compassionate, professional, individual psychotherapy services for adults, in order to help facilitate acceptance, healing and growth.
My therapeutic approach is a strengths-based, client-centered perspective. Practicing from a trauma-informed lens, I focus on the "whole person" by looking at mind, body and spirit and incorporate both cognitive behavioral interventions, as well as mindfulness/experiential techniques as appropriate.
After a thorough assessment of your background and needs, together we will develop a treatment plan aimed at helping you achieve the goals you are striving for. I utilize various techniques and treatment modalities tailored to fit your individual needs and goals, including the following:
- EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
- CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)
- DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy)
- Mindfulness
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Ultimately, I believe it is the therapeutic relationship itself that allows you to feel heard, understood and accepted, in order to gain greater clarity and make meaningful and lasting change in your life.
DBT Skills Training for Adults
Although I do not offer comprehensive DBT in my practice at this time, I am intensively trained in DBT through Behavioral Tech, LLC (2010) and have approximately 15 years experience providing both individual and group DBT. I currently practice DBT-informed treatment in order to help clients become more present-focused, manage distress, regulate emotions and improve interpersonal effectiveness, regardless of the presenting issue.
At this time, I am currently not offering DBT Skills Training Group for Adults. Feel free to Contact me should you have specific needs or questions regarding formal DBT Skills Training Groups.
What is EMDR?
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a comprehensive, integrative psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences. Repeated studies show that by using EMDR people can experience the benefits of psychotherapy that once took years to make a difference. It is widely assumed that severe emotional pain requires a long time to heal. EMDR therapy shows that the mind can in fact heal from psychological trauma much as the body recovers from physical trauma. When you cut your hand, your body works to close the wound. If a foreign object or repeated injury irritates the wound, it festers and causes pain. Once the block is removed, healing resumes. EMDR therapy demonstrates that a similar sequence of events occurs with mental processes. The brain's information processing system naturally moves toward mental health. If the system is blocked or imbalanced by the impact of a disturbing event, the emotional wound festers and can cause intense suffering. Once the block is removed, healing resumes. Using the detailed protocols and procedures learned in EMDR training sessions, clinicians help clients activate their natural healing processes. The understanding and awareness gained by the client can result in the client feeling empowered where they once were stuck in the meaning of a painful event.
Click here to learn more about EMDR, or contact me to determine if EMDR may be helpful for you.
What is CBT?
CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) targets distorted or irrational thoughts as a prime source for emotional disturbance and/or dysfunctional behaviors. In stepping back and taking note of our thoughts and the way they influence our emotion and action, we begin the work of developing new and healthier ways of interacting with those thoughts, and so better manage our emotions and behaviors. For example, a person who spends a lot of time thinking about plane crashes, runway accidents, and other air disasters may find themselves avoiding air travel. The goal of cognitive behavior therapy is to teach clients that while they cannot control every aspect of the world around them, they can take control of how they interpret and deal with things in their environment.
Click here to learn more about CBT.
What is DBT?
DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy) developed by Marsha Linehan, Ph.D., ABPP, at the University of Washington, is a comprehensive cognitive-behavioral treatment that was originally developed to treat chronically suicidal individuals suffering from borderline personality disorder (BPD). DBT has been found especially effective for those with suicidal and other multiply occurring severely dysfunctional behaviors. Research has shown DBT to be effective in reducing suicidal behavior, psychiatric hospitalization, treatment dropout, substance abuse, anger, and interpersonal difficulties.
Click here to learn more about DBT.
What is Mindfulness?
"Mindfulness is paying attention on purpose non-judgmentally in the present moment as if your life depended on it." ~Jon Kabat-Zinn
Mindfulness is often described as living with awareness in the present moment, without judgment or attachment to the moment. Being mindful allows us to fully notice, often times allowing us to fully participate in life. There is an increasing body of research highlighting the benefits of incorporating mindfulness practice with more traditional forms of western psychotherapy to help relieve symptoms related to a variety of psychological issues, such as depression, anxiety, anger and impulsivity.
Mindfulness skills help us live life fully in the present moment, often times contributing to greater clarity, gratitude and appreciation, and reduced suffering. We may begin to let go of rumination, future worries and participate more fully in each moment. Furthermore, mindfulness may help us reconnect with ourselves and access inherent resources and strengths we hold. There are numerous ways one may learn and practice mindfulness, including more formal exercises such as breathing, guided imagery, prayer and movement (walking, yoga, dancing, martial arts) to simply intentionally paying attention to the moment at hand while living life. Both EMDR and DBT have large mindfulness components.
Click here to learn more about mindfulness and it's application to psychotherapy.