Specializing In Helping Children, Adolescents, Couples & Families
FIND FREEDOM, ACCEPTANCE AND JOY
Welcome!
Everyone has something. Every family has something – something we struggle with, hoping it will magically disappear, fix itself, or that we can throw away.
We try stuffing away feelings of frustration, anxiety, anger, guilt, sadness, disappointment, fear, regret, or shame… Until they resurface again.
No matter what you or your family’s “something” is, identification and acknowledgement is the first step in beginning a personalized journey of discovery, understanding, awareness, and lastly, acceptance.
Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.
Whether I am working with frantic parents of a newborn, a toddler who has elected himself boss of the home, a child who has continues to disobey at school, an adolescent believing his parents are stupid, a broken-hearted college girl, a couple dealing with infidelity, or a family who has experienced the death of a child, I make a practice to meet my patients where they are emotionally.
I want each person I work with to know they do have a voice, and by becoming accountable, they can change their lives for the better.
Our Unique Approach
My patients describe me as having an “out-of-the-box” approach with kids as well as adults. My office is purposefully designed to not be the typical clinical setting. Having no desire for a standard office setting, I created instead an atmosphere of uniqueness, comfort, and safety.
My support team includes a 39-pound Sulcata Tortoise, our Golden Retriever therapy dog and chicks!
Our Unique Services
Mental Health Tools
- Adolescent Teens
- Anxiety / Worry
- Cancer
- Divorce
- Journal
- LGBTQ
- News
- Parenting
- Personal Growth
- Pet-Assisted Therapy
- Play Therapy
- Racism
- Relationships
- Self-Harm
Sexting: A Young Teens Struggle
Our series of articles written by my patients continues this month with a letter from a young woman in her early teens. The pressure on teens today to gain approval through social media is huge and has real effects on their emotional and mental states. The reasons vary but essentially kids “sext” to gain approval, […]
Teen’s Journal Entry: Cutting
This is a journal entry written by one of my clients, who agreed for me to share this with you. My goal in using this is to bring to the light the terrible emotional suffering so many people, especially young people, carry EVERYDAY. Cutting (a form of self-harm) is more than a simple call for […]
Part 3: Creating Room for Empathy
As we continue our series covering IMAGO therapy (taken from How to Get the Love You Want), we’ll hear again from one of my male patients to get a real-life guy’s perspective on his work and experience. This is a real couple going through real, sometimes very tough circumstances, just like you and me. Our […]
Part 2: Trust the Process
As we continue our series covering IMAGO therapy we’ll hear again from one of my male patients to get a real-life guy’s perspective on his work and experience. This is a real couple going through real, sometimes very tough circumstances, just like you and me. IMAGO: Trust the Process One of the first things I […]
Part 1: What In The Hell Is He Thinking?
As women, we always wonder how men think or rather, “What in the hell is he thinking?” I sat down with one of my current male patients and asked for transparency and vulnerability….I have decided to begin a series where you will hear straight from both male and female patients and their own personal journeys […]
Being Real…Writing Your Way Through Cancer
For many people, writing is therapy. Personally, I am not one of the people who makes it a practice to journal, and I regret not doing so. The two times I faced cancer, I experienced feelings I had never even imagined before hearing the news, “You have cancer”. The feelings from this statement forward began […]
Her Cancer, My Peace
Sitting in one of my dearest friend’s living room this week, I was overwhelmed with my own feelings of peace, clarity, and calmness while talking with her… My feelings I had never experienced before. These are not the feelings I was expecting at all when a friend I have known for over 30 years is […]
Rethinking Racism With Our Children
col·or-blind unable to distinguish certain colors, or (rarely in humans) any colors at all. not influenced by racial prejudice. “a color-blind society” There is a myth (or lie) many parents choose to believe in our culture that young children are “colorblind” or in other words, do not notice race. I believe most of us have […]