Specialties

Adjustment disorders can leave you feeling anxious, sad, hopeless, and irritable.  Anxiety feels like a lot of worry, dread, or fear. Social anxiety can cause you to worry about being watched by others which leads to avoiding social situations. Each can leave you feeling nervous, self-conscious, and embarrassed, even in safe situations. Therapy can help you understand your emotions, process change, and develop coping tools so you can start living a more fulfilled life.

Relationships can be complicated and leave us feeling lost or alone. You may be struggling with communication problems, trust issues, conflicts, or feeling disconnected. These challenges can mess with daily life, causing sadness, and frustration. Therapy can offer you a safe space to work out the challenges, develop healthy communication, build trust, and handle conflicts constructively. Therapy can help set healthy boundaries, offer a plan of action to help you create the connection you crave.

Depression symptoms can manifest as feelings of sadness, hopelessness, and a lack of energy or interest in activities that we once enjoyed. Grief and loss can be overwhelming, bringing up lots of emotions, including sadness, anger, guilt, and confusion. Both leave you feeling alone. Therapy can be helpful in treating grief or depression by providing support, understanding, and coping strategies. Therapy can help you experience improved mood, increased motivation, and a greater sense of hope and wellbeing. We will help you walk through the pain to peace.

Traveling through Life Changes can be unstable and complicated. Do you feel like there’s no end to the list of things you need to manage or accomplish in the day? Overwhelming Stress can bring up a bunch of emotions, including anxiety, frustration, and exhaustion. It’s common to want to blow up or shutdown feeling disconnected from others.

Whether a divorce, a move, a career change, marriage, the birth of a child, a loss, or retirement, the rollercoaster of these changes can be too much. With support, these experiences can be figured out with more ease and understanding.

Therapy can help you process the feelings you are experiencing, using Stress Management skills and coping with the challenges instead of avoiding them. We can help you feel more confident in your ability to handle future life changes with less overwhelm and provide greater coping of the emotions you’re facing.

Trauma can cause disturbing memories, avoidance behaviors, hypervigilance, and feelings of anxiety, guilt, or shame.  Reactions to trauma can affect daily life and relationships. 

Therapy can help those who have experienced trauma process their experiences and develop healthy coping skills. With therapy, you may experience a greater sense of control, improved relationships, a stronger sense of self-worth, and a renewed sense of hope for the future.

Please see the page on Trauma for more details.

Substance abuse or addictions can be a challenging experience that affects you; and the people around you who become Codependent.  Codependency can also develop from Caretaking others. The struggle may start with a rising tolerance to what was once an occasional activity, mood swing, or relationship difficulty and is now out of control. It’s also common to feel shame, guilt, and a sense of disconnection from others and yourself.

With therapy, you can experience a greater ability to manage triggers and cravings, improve relationships and feel a strengthened sense of self-worth. You don’t have to face this challenge alone, we can help.

Please see the Substance Abuse/Addictions page.