Are you feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or struggling to cope with life's challenges? Individual therapy provides a safe and supportive space for you to explore your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors with a licensed therapist. Together, we will work to identify underlying issues, develop coping strategies, and foster personal growth. Whether you're facing difficult life transitions, mental health concerns, relationship conflicts, or simply seeking self-improvement, individual therapy can help you gain insights, build resilience, and achieve your goals.

self-pay only Are you and your partner feeling disconnected, struggling to communicate, or facing challenges in your relationship? Couple therapy provides a safe and supportive space for both of you to explore your feelings, improve communication, and strengthen your bond. As a licensed marriage and family therapist, I am here to help facilitate understanding, promote empathy, and guide you both towards a healthier and more fulfilling relationship. Together, we can work towards building trust, fostering intimacy, and navigating difficulties as a team. Take the first step towards a happier and more harmonious relationship today. Sessions can consist of mix of configurations in order to best meet the needs of the couple.

Couple-Specific Policies

For couples sessions, I will typically only meet with each partner individually during our second meeting. It is important to remember that I do not keep secrets between partners, in other words, you cannot swear me to secrecy from the other partner. Please keep this in mind before disclosing information to me. Following the first 2 sessions, I will offer my recommendations for treatment going forward. Each couples’ situation is different and we will collaborate to identify how to overcome your problems by creating specific goals for therapy.

If we have scheduled a couples session, I will not meet with only one partner and if a partner is late, we will wait on the other partner before proceeding with session.

FEES. 60-minute couples sessions are self-pay at $125. I cannot accept insurance due to couples therapy not meeting necessary billing criteria for insurance & can blur the lines of medical records with an identified client. If you would like to schedule longer intensive sessions, please let me know and we can discuss options.

RELEASE OF INFORMATION. In order to release information in regards to couples therapy, I will need written releases from both of you. I will sometimes ask to speak with one or both of your individual therapists or previous therapists; however, I will need both of you to sign a release in order to do this.

I have completed EMDRIA approved EMDR training and often incorporate this approach in sessions. EMDR stands for eye movement desensitization and reprocessing. EMDR is an evidence-based treatment that utilizes bilateral stimulation to target distressing life experiences to promote reduction in problematic symptoms (flashbacks, nightmares, anxiety, etc). Here is a helpful link: https://www.emdr.com/what-is-emdr/

I utilize narrative therapy's approach to view people as separate from their problems, as well as consider clients the expert of their own lives. I often hold this quote from Narrative Therapy founder, Michael White, "the person is not the problem, the problem is the problem."

AKA parts work/ego state/internal family systems (IFS). This type of therapy considers the "parts" of yourself that may be holding or contributing to the problem at hand. Parts can be considered to have particular needs and sometimes these needs can be unmet, leading to distress within the internal system. The goal of therapy is to identify parts, their need, and to respond to their need appropriately and with understanding. Here is a helpful link: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/making-the-whole-beautiful/202202/how-parts-work-helps-us-get-know-ourselves

I offer skills teaching of DBT skills that support distress tolerance, mindfulness, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. These skills are evidence based and can support Clients in increasing their window of tolerance to prevent unhealthy or unsafe reactions to triggers.