I enjoy helping clients accept and like themselves, organize around strengths, achieve greater emotional presence, think clearly, and let go of shame, guilt and old habits of emotional survival. I believe therapy should lead to better decisions, as well as improved quality of life and relationships.
Marriage and Family Therapist, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Low mood is not something that can be fixed overnight. It takes time and work to figure out the best way to deal with it. In our work together, we will work to uncover likely causes of your low mood and find out whether they are circumstantial or whether they stem from something deeper. We will work together to help you manage the unpleasant emotions as well as take meaningful steps to finding joy and meaning in your life.
I use cognitive-behavioral therapy for lifelong and current depression. I specialize in working with patients who have suffered from depression as children and who now see this affecting current relationships at home or work.
Marriage and Family Therapist, Marriage and Family Therapist
I am a Marriage and Family Therapist with over 15 years experience helping adolescents, family, couples and individuals reach a happy and fulfilling life. I provide a safe and compassionate environment where I welcome any experience with no judgments, no matter what the struggle is.
I take a very supportive and compassionate approach to working with clients who live with depression. Training in DBT and CBT help inform my work with depressive symtoms.
I have worked with people therapeutically 35+ years.
I have been married for over 40 years, and raised 2 kids.
I have worked a regular job to make a living and provide for my family.
I am rock solid in physical reality, and also a romantic visionary and can translate between the two worlds.
My approach is non-pathologizing, strength-based and solution-focused. I work in a very humanistic, systemic way and often use cognitive-behavioral methods. I keep my client informed as we go…empowering them to “own†what we discover so they can transform the aspects of themselves and their
Depression is a space of contemplation, of deep rest, a space where the body, mind and spirit can hide from the loudly spinning world, and just take a break. And yet, it is the nature of life to grow, and we struggle to grow when in the stasis of depression. What purpose does our depression have? What is it trying to teach us? What is it protecting us from?