Marriage and Family Therapy is a mental health profession similar to psychology, social work, and counseling. Marriage and family therapists diagnose and treat depression, anxiety, mood disorders, and many other mental health problems while also addressing relationship concerns including couple conflicts and parent-child issues.

While other mental health professionals work mainly with individuals, marriage and family therapists treat individuals, couples, and families too from a relationship-centered perspective, evaluating how clients’ interactions with family, friends, and coworkers affect their mental, social, and emotional health.

Individual Therapy

A positive relationship with a therapist is the key to feeling both safe and productive in psychotherapy. When I work with individuals, I support their strengths and goals while also challenging fears and encouraging growth. I assist clients in finding their own pace, while also creating an environment in which they feel able to take risks. I help clients explore their past to create a more empowered future. In doing so, I help clients to understand and break destructive patterns in their lives and to achieve and maintain well-being and balance.

I utilize multiple therapeutic approaches to best serve my clients’ own unique needs. My practice is rooted in years of experience in the mental health field and in the belief that a happy, meaningful, authentic life is possible for us all.

Couple Therapy

No matter the stage of your relationship, all relationships can face challenges.  Life changes such as the birth of a child, loss of a job, or the launch of a child can cause relationship troubles.  Other events can have an even greater impact, such as a loss, infidelity, or separation, and can cause a tear in the relationship.  You may be wondering, “how can I save my relationship?”  The answer is: Couple’s Counseling!!  it can bring manageble change to happier and statisfying relationship.

As a collaborative couple’s counselor, I will lend an experienced ear and help you communicate your needs and wants.  Together, we will create a safe space to allow each of you to share your hopes, dreams, and concerns. This will help you explore the relationship you’re in and decide how to create the relationship you want.  You will each learn communication skills that can help you get your needs met and work towards saving your relationship.

Family Therapy

Family problems can manifest in the healthiest of families, resulting in challenging, frustrating, and painful interactions among family members. From little irritations to buried resentments, from dramatic arguments to feelings of guilt, disappointment, and anger we did not even know we had, our families often bring up the most intense emotions we experience, for better or worse.

As a marriage and family therapist, I have extensive training in family dynamics and years of experience helping families learn to function better. When a family is functioning well, life becomes more manageable and satisfying. Please know that there is reason to hope that family life can improve whenever its members are willing to make changes and they are working with a competent clinician.  

Telehealth

A growing number of people are opting for telehealth to meet their mental health care needs. This has become the need in today's world  due to the pandamic situation. Online therapy, unlike traditional therapy, enables an individual to meet with their therapist from nearly anywhere, so long as they have a stable and secure internet or phone connection. I do offer telehealth as the main way to communicate with people who are seeking therapy. Some individuals prefer this type of treatment because they can get the benefits of therapy in their own homes or while traveling—this can be particularly helpful for people who live in remote locations, have busy schedules, or who have limited mobility due to disability or caregiving responsibilities.

I promise to do my best for you and your family should we have the opportunity to work together.