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
- Abuse
- Addiction
- Adolescent Teens
- Anxiety / Worry
- Bullying
- Cancer
- Divorce
- Grief
- Journal
- LGBTQ
- Meditation & Mindfulness
- News
- Parenting
- Personal Growth
- Pet-Assisted Therapy
- Play Therapy
- Racism
- Relationships
- Self-Harm
- Shame
Taking Charge of Your Relationship: Embracing Self-Responsibility
Over the years, I have been asked what I feel couples struggle with the most in their relationships. Why do couples either make it or not? My response isn’t the typical: Communication, intimacy, connection, parenting, religious beliefs, family, work, or financial issues. My answer: Lack of personal responsibility in relationships. In my previous article, Building […]
Building Trust in Relationships: The Power of Self-Accountability
Trust is built on accountability. Trust is the foundation of any meaningful relationship. It involves having confidence in someone’s honesty, reliability, and intentions. When individuals consistently demonstrate accountability for their actions and decisions, it builds trust because it shows that they can be relied upon to take responsibility for their behavior. When individuals can’t seem […]
13 Questions to Ask When You Start to Overthink
Okay, some of us are overthinkers without severity. These are people like me. My dad told me as a child, “Becky, everything seems worse at night”. Boy, was he right! These are the nights that you can’t seem to “stop your mind from going on and on”. These are the nights your negativity and “what […]
Newsflash: Over-thinkers Do Not Like Change!
They are resistant to change. They dig their heels in deeply and kick and scream every step of the way UNLESS they make a cognitive decision to open themselves up to changing their own thoughts. This does not come easily. Overthinking is birthed in our childhoods and grows with time. If you aren’t sure whether […]
Most of us do it…Overthinking.
Overthinking, also known as rumination or analysis paralysis, refers to the excessive and repetitive thinking or dwelling on a particular topic, problem, or situation. Starting with a thought and then finding ourselves in a black rabbit hole that oddly feels familiar. Overthinking involves spending an inordinate amount of time and mental energy contemplating and analyzing […]
Top 3 Reasons Why Women Leave Relationships
Women are resilient. Women will be steadfast in intimate relationships they find worthwhile. They tightly hold on to hope and the belief the relationship will someday return to what it once seemed to be. Women tend to feel unhappy and dissatisfied for long periods of time (sometimes years) before they end the relationship. They will […]
Women Desperately Need to Hear These Statements
As we continue our theme this month focusing on the needs of a woman in the relationship, I’d like to offer over twenty statements that I have found to be extremely beneficial for women to hear. In my previous article “What Women Want“, I mention that although women can be incredibly different, there is one […]
What Women Want
Although women can be incredibly different, there is one common denominator we share when it comes to what we desire from a partner…A sense of connection. The meaning of connection tends to be subjective when examining relationships. A disconnection many times is labeled as a “gut feeling” by women explaining, “something is just not right”. […]