Specialties
Listed below are areas of counseling were I have added experience in working with, read on to learn more about how I can help with your specific therapy needs!
Anxiety & Depression
While anxiety and depression may among the most common of mental health struggles, their origins and effects on your everyday life can be deeply unique. We will work to identify where you believe these feelings come from, how severe they feel to you, and what you have already tried -and succeeded- to do in helping to alleviate these feelings and help you feel better. We’ll work with the tools you already have available to you, alongside new coping, grounding, and mindfulness techniques to grow your ability to regulate yourself and live the life you want to live.
Anger
Anger, at it’s core, is an emotion that can serve as a motivating tool, and a signal telling us something is wrong in our everyday life and needs to change. At the same time, anger is an emotion that can lead us to do things we later regret, and so it becomes important to recognize our anger when and where it shows up, and how impactful it is. Through a combination of increasing your understanding of how strong your anger is, where it comes from, and most importantly what it tells you to do, we can create strategies designed to help you feel more in control of your emotions, and to be able to let it go when it has served it’s purpose.
Trauma
Trauma is oftentimes the result of an experience that we, or someone close to us, went through, where we had little to no power in what happened. Through my approach to trauma therapy, which is heavily informed by my training with Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Strengths-Based Positive Psychology (SBPP), we’ll work to bring that feeling of agency, autonomy, and power back to your life. We will work to give you a feeling of acceptance and closure for the past traumatic experience, and the confidence to continue living your life in spite of that past experience.
Men
For many men, the mere idea of therapy may feel as though it goes against so much of how we are classically raised, where we are told to bury our feelings, keep moving forward, and rarely -if ever- ask for help. In my work with men, we will work to gain more awareness over our emotions, when and where they show up, and what in specific brings them on. We take a solutions-focused approach to therapy where we work with what we know, what we see, and what we feel, in order to come to a place of “emotional proactivity”, where we are aware and able to process our emotions when they come up, rather than being “emotionally reactive”, and dealing with feelings only in the moment where they are most overwhelming.
Adolescents
In an ever-evolving and frequently daunting world, I try -through my work with children and adolescents- to give them a “safe harbor” where they can be their full and true self, and can work through their problems in a way that makes sense to them. By the time an adolescent client “graduates” from therapy, they will have an in-depth understanding of what direction they want their lives to proceed towards, how they can move through their everyday life in order to reach that goal, and who they can rely on to help them get there. I work to honor both the therapeutic relationship with the adolescent, while also making sure that parents are informed and active in the course of their child’s treatment.