I bring a compassionate, understanding, and solution-focused approach to therapy. With specific expertise in Women’s Health and trauma, I have years of experience helping clients cope with women's issues, peripartum mood disorders (postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety, etc), adoption and foster care, fertility challenges, infant/pregnancy loss, pregnancy and childbirth, family problems, domestic violence, sexual assault and abuse, body image issues, and eating and food related issues. My approach is client centered and trauma informed and will also challenge you to work toward tangible outcomes so you can see direct improvement in your day to day life. I also have extensive expertise in healthcare, offering counseling for first responder issues, compassion fatigue, caregiver/provider burnout, hospice and end of life, grief/loss, chronic illness and more. Clinical approaches include client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness therapy, motivational interviewing, psychodynamic therapy, solution-focused therapy, and trauma-informed therapy. Therapy is a hard first step to take but I am here for you and will offer a personalized approach to your care that will help you work through whatever it is that you are struggling with at this time.
Additional areas of focus: Addictions, Relationship issues, Family conflicts, Eating disorders, Self esteem, Bipolar disorder, Coping with life changes, Compassion fatigue, Abandonment, Adoption and Foster Care, Body image, Cancer, Caregiver issues and stress, Chronic pain illness and disability, Co-morbidity, Control issues, Coping with Natural or Human-Caused Disaster, Domestic Violence, Drug and Alcohol Addiction, Eating and Food-Related Issues, Emptiness, Family Problems, First Responder Issues, Forgiveness, Guilt and shame, HIV / AIDS, Hospice and End of Life Counseling, Impulsivity, Isolation / loneliness, Money and financial issues, Mood disorders , Panic disorder and panic attacks, Postpartum Depression, Post-traumatic stress, Pregnancy and childbirth, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), Self-Harm, Self-love, Sexual Assault and Abuse, Social anxiety and phobia, Women's issues, Young Adult Issues
Clinical approaches: Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Psychodynamic Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy
PA LCSW CW021654