Services
Our practice provides psychotherapy for individuals and couples and the LGBTQIA+ Rainbow community, and gender-diverse adults. I implement an evidence-based empirical research approach and involves encouraging clients to identify and build upon their strengths to create positive growth in their lives.
Therapy goals include restoring identity development, healthy relationships, communication, alleviating symptoms of anxiety and depression, adaptive coping skills, establishing self-confidence and self-worth, healing past trauma, processing grief, and loss, and transforming dysfunctional behavior patterns into positive life choices, healthy emotions, and a meaningful and satisfying life.
My primary emphasis is as a relationship specialist for individuals and couples including:
- Couples Relationship Therapy
- Sex Therapy
- Affairs, Betrayal, Infidelity Recovery
- Compulsive Sexual Behavior/Sex Addiction
- Partner Betrayal Trauma
- Couples Betrayal Recovery
- Boundaries and Communication
- Grief & Loss
- Infertility & IVF
- Bringing Baby Home
- Interracial/Intercultural Couples
- Intimacy and Sexuality
- LGBTQIA2+
- Love Addiction
- Major Life Transitions
- Maternal Mental Health
- Parenting Styles
- Partners of Sex Addicts
- Premarital and Newlywed Couples
- Romantic Relationships
- Separations and Discernment
- Sexual Betrayal Trauma
Additionally, I provide clients coping skills to reduce negative symptoms related to stress, relationships, feelings, or challenging life transitions, including:
- Anxiety
- Career Stress
- Challenging Break-ups
- COVID-19 Mental Health
- Depression
- Codependency
- LGBTQI+ Affirmative Therapy
- EMDR & Trauma
- Identity Exploration
- Life-Work Balance
- Life Transitions
- Maternal Mental Health
- Birth Trauma
- Perinatal Anxiety
- Postpartum Depression
- Relationships & Marriage
- Self-Esteem & Self-Worth
- Stress Management
My therapy treatment approach for individuals is primarily Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), challenging expectations and self-talk, and investigating patterns to understand yourself better, determine your goals, and help achieve them. Couples therapy’s approach is Gottman Method Couples Therapy (GMCT) and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT).
The Gottman Method is an approach to couples therapy that includes a thorough assessment of the couple’s relationship. The Gottman Connect Relationship Check-up Questionnaire incorporates assessment and evidence-based research interventions from the Sound Relationship House Theory. The couple’s goals of the Gottman Method are to disarm negative communication, increase affection, connection and closeness, decrease arguments and conflict, increase sexual intimacy, establish respect for one another, and create compassion and mutual understanding within the couple’s relationship.
I focus on educating the client or couple, utilizing their strengths, and providing techniques to overcome existing conflicts. My goal is not to diagnose you but to improve your life and relationships while developing skills to manage future concerns independently.
