Services Offered

Telehealth

Telehealth or Teletherapy is a face to face meeting online through the patient portal of my healthcare program. It is private, confidential, and HIPPA compliant.

Individual Counseling

Individual counseling is solution focused, goal oriented, and confidential. We work at your own pace in a quiet comfortable atmosphere.

Counseling with Children

Working with children to change behavior is an on-going and sometimes, challenging process. It takes a collaborative approach with parents, their child, and therapist. We work toward the goals identified during the initial meeting. A combination of “talk therapy” and “play therapy strategies” are utilized. Play is fun, enjoyable, and a natural avenue to help children through troubling times.

Play provides a child the safe psychological distance from issues and frees them up to address them in a variety of ways. Play also provides the counselor with many opportunities to help children process emotions, deal with grief, divorce, trauma, or other life events. Through play children can learn emotional control and adaptive skills.

Please Note:

I am not a “Registered Play Therapist.” I use play therapy strategies as interventions with children.

If my skill set is ineffective in any given circumstance, we will discuss alternatives.

Working With Adolescence

The primary goal of the teen is to gain independence. They are starting to separate from parents, while at the same time become increasingly aware of how others, especially their peers, see them and are desperately trying to fit in. They are “trying on” different looks, and identities and they become acutely aware of how they differ from their peers. Considering that the teen years are a period of intense growth physically, morally, and intellectually, it is no wonder that it is a time of confusion and family upheaval. Along with adolescence can come a variety of behavioral challenges for the teen and parents, as well as depression, anxiety, decreased self-esteem and sometimes a fragile self-image.

While the teen years can be a challenge, teens are often energetic, creative, thoughtful, idealistic, and fun. It is a time to watch your child become a very distinct individual, as they mature and grow toward adulthood.