Pain is a requirement for living a full life with an open heart. Processing the pain of full-living takes time and energy and many of us put off tending to our emotional and psychological needs in order to respond to immediate tasks of work and home. Disconnecting from one’s own body, mind and spirit leads to suffering, in addition to the normal, expected pain of full living. My therapeutic approach honors the realities of what it means to be human, invites clients to return home to themselves including their values and goals, and offers useful feedback based on observations and your narrative to help you awaken to your conditioned thinking and acting, opening up the window for mindful choice and fuller, more rewarding living.
Additional areas of focus: LGBTQ+ related issues, Family conflicts, Trauma and abuse, Motivation, self esteem, and confidence, Career difficulties, Depression, Coping with life changes, Compassion fatigue, Abandonment, Adoption and foster care, Attachment issues, Cancer, Caregiver issues and stress, Co-morbidity, Codependency, Communication problems, Coping with natural or human-caused disaster, Dependent personality, Divorce and separation, Drug and alcohol addiction, Emptiness, Family of origin issues, Family problems, Fertility issues, First responder issues, Forgiveness, Guilt and shame, HIV / AIDS, Hospice and end-of-life counseling, Impulsivity, Isolation / loneliness, Life purpose, Mood disorders, Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD, Personality disorders, Pregnancy and childbirth, Self-harm, Somatization, Women's issues, Young adult issues
Clinical approaches: Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Existential Therapy, Jungian Therapy, Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Internal Family Systems
IL LCPC 180015126
KY LPCC 243315