Therapy with me may involve us working together to help you change behaviors, process emotions, increase your awareness or helping you to gain new skills.

I have been specifically trained in Relationship/Couple Therapy as well as Family Therapy as a Marriage and Family Therapist.

I am very experienced in helping couples to speak and listen more effectively to their partner as well as to remove barriers to trusting in each other. I listen effectively as well as intervening gently but firmly in the conversations we have in my office.

These are highly developed skills I have honed over time and with many couples who have taught me that the most memorable experiences happen in therapy when they are able to have a different experience with me in the room than they have with each other at home. The therapy begins with this experience and then translates into new successful experiences at home.

I practice this every day with the clients that I work with. It is not always easy to change the well-established patterns we have but it is almost always the case that when people are able to change and have better experiences with communicating with each other, that provides the hope, inspiration and eventually the evidence of the most rewarding and long lasting change.

In my work with couple therapy, sometimes one or both partners in the room will expect or ask a therapist to be a "mediator" or a third objective party to listen to each person. This is in part my role as a therapist. However I had had experience in which one or both partners also wants me as a therapist to choose who is "right" or "wrong" between the couple with respect to issues they may be struggling with. Therapy with me is not a way to get someone else to change or a magic bullet to fix or correct someone else. If you are coming for relationship therapy, I will work for the hopes and visions of your relationship.

Relationship therapy works best when each person in the room is focused on themselves. Some people come to therapy hoping their significant other/others will change. Your best hope is to have personal awareness or shifts for yourself.

I also have a strong focus on working with individuals struggling with issues related to trauma and childhood sexual abuse and I am additionally certified with the use of EMDR, an evidence based treatment for trauma symptoms/memories. My job as your therapist job is to completely focus and pay attention to you. Our therapy may take many forms however research has shown that what is most effective in therapy is having a safe and trusting relationship with your therapist. It is very important that you are able to feel safe and accepted and to begin to trust in the therapy process. My approach to healing is less about about advice giving or "gving your answers". It is more about an active and collaborative process between you and mysef as your therapist. Therapy at its root is having a conversation. My goals is to have many healing conversations with you.

I am a member in good standing with GoodTherapy.org, an organization that supports therapists who abide by a strict ethical code in providing therapy services.