Let me reassure you: There’s no armless couch in my office. There are no raised eyebrows or vacant stares from behind a clipboard. I don’t push with long, painful silences or pretend to be your best friend.
What I do is apply my 20 years of clinical experience and insight to your particular needs. I question, listen, and let you guide the pace of your progress toward where you want to be—in your day-to-day and in your own head and heart.
Depression Help
Everyone feels sad or down sometimes. But if you’re feeling a perpetual, persistent grief or unhappiness, you might be struggling with depression. Depression can feel like a weight that drags you down day after day. It darkens your thinking and emotions, making it a struggle to manage your usual activities — sleeping, eating, work, self care, communicating with friends and family, and more. It often can leave you feeling alone, confused, hopeless, or even worthless. Asking for help with depression is not always easy either. The good news? Depression isn’t a life sentence. It’s a place you can emerge from, and I can work with you — and, if needed, your family physician — to help you find your way.
Anxiety
Ever feel like your brain is turning like a hamster wheel you can’t stop? That you’re struggling to focus — or that you’re so focused on your fears, worries, or other negative emotions that you can’t focus on much else? If those feelings are taking over in a way that interferes with your daily life — perhaps making you feel irritable, angry, or paralyzed from making even simple decisions — you might be living with anxiety. In our anxiety counseling sessions, I’ll work with you to tackle the sources and symptoms of that anxiety, giving you tools and goals that will get you back to living, not simply coping with, your life.
Stress Management
Some transitions happen by choice: a new job, marriage, baby, or move to a new town. Other transitions are thrust on us, sometimes as natural ends to important chapters in our lives, like leaving college or becoming an empty nester. Other times they’re unexpected: the loss of a job, a meaningful relationship, or someone we love. However that transition arrives, it can leave you reeling, feeling frazzled and overwhelmed or just plain stuck. But rather than merely enduring the stress, you can learn to manage it. In our stress management counseling sessions, we’ll focus on understanding the impact of the transition you’re in and develop strategies that’ll help you adjust to the change so you can move forward with confidence.
Teen Issues
School and social stresses, changing family and friendship dynamics, internal and external expectations to be smarter, faster, thinner, bigger, or better — teens today face an enormous amount of pressure. At a time in life when they’re still figuring out who they are and where they fit in, those stresses and teens’ responses can magnify, materializing sometimes as anxiety, depression, eating disorders, or other dangerous behaviors; other times as a general sense of feeling lost, frustrated, or like it’s simply safer to shut down. My role is to give teens room to talk openly. I ask questions that help them discover what hurts and why, and together we develop a plan for making the situation, and themselves, better.
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