Services

Telehealth sessions only via Zoom

Therapy Approach

My style is interactive and goal-oriented. I use evidence-based models to help clients work towards their goals. I focus on overcoming the obstacles that prevent growth and self-awareness, which is necessary to feeling better and improving well-being and quality of life. With the client, we examine behaviors and how they affect interactions with family, work, friends and intimate relationships. We work towards changing negative behaviors and beliefs that can hold you back and replace them with positive , life enriching ones. All work is done at the client’s pace. Homework may be given between sessions to help foster an understanding of the skills learned in session and reduce conflicts or negative habits in the areas we are working on.

Consider setting up a consultation to talk more about what brought you to my Practice.

Couples Therapy

Here are some signs couples therapy could help.

• You don’t feel heard by your partner

• You are unable to have healthy communication, there is yelling, hurtful comments made to each others and don’t know how to change things

• You have arguments resulting in days or weeks where you and your partner are not talking

• You find you are fighting more times than you get along, and/or as a result, maybe your children are absorbing your fighting and showing signs of anxiety, depression or anger

• You feel you contribute to the relationship more than your partner, where’s the balance?

• My partner is controlling or there are trust issues

• There is a history of childhood trauma, attachment issues, that affect the relationship

• Feeling frightened, unsafe, difficulty getting close

  Here’s what could help:

• Learn to develop and increase self-capacity, emotional regulation, resolution of couple distress

• Strengthen couple relationships through evidence-based, skills based psychoeducation

  Let’s examine these patterns, there are solutions that can repair and strengthen your relationships. I bring in the Gottman Method and Developmental Couples Therapy for Complex Trauma (DCTCT ) among other skills into couples therapy.

Trauma Therapy

What is Trauma?

The emotional response to an event or series of events, affecting an individual’s ability to integrate overwhelmed experiences resulting from a threat to life, bodily integrity and or ability to cope.

Just a few symptoms caused by trauma

• Feeling stuck in present or past from deeply distressing experience(s)

• Struggle with feelings of panic or anxiety

• You have repeated nightmares or difficulty sleeping

• Intrusive childhood memories that plague you today, or little to no memories of your childhood

• You have unhealthy behaviors or addictive patterns to mask your emotional pain, interfering with quality of life.

• It is hard to regulate your emotions causing difficulty with relationships with family, friends and/or at work

• Low self esteem, avoidance, sadness, anger, fear, social withdrawal, changes in habits

• You sometimes feel disconnected from yourself or others, or feeling like you are always running away

• You have past memories that feel so real, you feel you are reliving them in the present moment

• You feel like you are in a fog or trance like daze at times, feel like you loose time in the present

These situations can be overwhelming and confusing. Having a plan to work on these symptoms may help you manage, reduce, or maybe even eliminate them over time in therapy and to finally feel some relief. There are steps you can take to help you regain more control of your life.

EMDR may help you reprocess your trauma.

What is EMDR Therapy?

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing) is an evidence base intervention, meaning it has been researched and studied proven to be effective for distressing experiences. Here are just some of the areas EMDR can help with; Attachment Issues, Chronic Pain, Depression, Dissociation, Grief, PTSD, CPTSD, OCD, Panic and Anxiety Disorder, Phobias, Self-Esteem, Social Anxiety, and more. EMDR follows a structured Eight Phase Protocol that takes the client gently through working on distressful present or past distressing memories/experiences. EMDR uses bilateral stimulation (BLS), in the form of using hand tapping, eye movement, or hearing selected sounds. BLS is used while the client focuses on the distressing memory/experience. The BLS actually activates the brain’s relaxation response, and this reduces the memory’s emotional charge, making it manageable to revisit and reprocess it. This process integrates the distressing memory so it no longer feels overwhelming and the memory/experience is then associated with a more accurate positive belief rather than the negative belief that limited you from living a more joyful life. This is not hypnosis, everything is coming out from inside of you by you, to finally release the negative impact it has had on you all this time.

If this resonates with you, consider setting up a consultation, I would be happy to answer any questions you may have on how EMDR may be helpful to you.

Groups

(Please reach out to see how they may help you)

Training, but not limited to, in my practice

•       EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing)

•     Gottman Method for Couples

• Developmental Couple Therapy for Complex Trauma (DCTCT)

•     Complex Trauma Training (CCTP I/CCTP-II)

• Ego State Therapy

• Dissociation-Focused Trauma Treatment

If you are curious about any of this information, consider clicking on the ‘button’ below to set up a free 15 minute consultation to discuss further. I look forward to the discussion.