Specialties
Distress due to work difficulties -
Managing overwhelming stress and expectations; increasing effective ways of restoring and maintaining emotional stability and health; addressing challenging relationships with coworkers and bosses
Relationship issues -
Feeling unsatisfied in your partnership; communication challenges; addressing issues of power and voice; contemplation of separation; questioning one’s place in the relationship; breakups, friendships, dating
Divorce -
How to talk to children about divorce, coparenting, communication in the post-separation process
Compulsive behaviors -
Including compulsive overeating, compulsive spending
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) -
Using exposure and response prevention to help clients confront OCD, e.g. concern with and/or fear of germs and becoming 'contaminated'
Anxiety -
Generalized anxiety, social anxiety, panic attacks
Depression -
Sleep and energy disruption, overall mood disturbance, inability to enjoy yourself, and difficulty being motivated, amongst many other symptoms
Student concerns -
Working with college and graduate students on adjusting to school, work-life balance, academic issues
Major life transitions -
Adjusting to college, new relationships, career transitions and direction; mid-life existential, relationship, and career challenges; losing one’s drive or burn out; learning self-care
Death and dying process -
Assessing mood, mental functioning and pain; providing end-of-life counseling to the dying and their families; and advocating for good medical care
Existential challenges/crises -
Questioning purpose, spirituality, existence; finding one’s path and voice, especially when it differs from society's expectations
Family issues -
Includes helping parents with their own issues within the context of supporting children; helping young adults navigate family issues
Parenting -
Helping parents with their own issues within the context of supporting children
Trauma -
Including dealing with past sexual assault, childhood trauma, environmental trauma (e.g. witnessing/experiencing violence), PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder)
