Individuals

My clients experience my approach to be interactive and one that holds them accountable. I view therapy as a collaborative process and work with you to provide evidence-based tools and skills necessary to make changes to live a more fulfilling and meaningful life. I often will assign clients homework or exercises to work on between sessions to further your growth and improvement.

In working with individuals, I practice from an approach of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and integrate attachment and systems theories from my couples trainings.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) utilizes metaphors, mindfulness, and defusion techniques (tricks for interacting with thoughts and feelings) that will help you understand how to respond to your internal experience (thoughts, feelings, memories, bodily sensations) in such a way that you can still live a meaningful and present-based life in spite of past and current pain.

Identifying the values you want your life to be driven by is a very important component of ACT work. We explore what you want to stand for in the face of hardship, how you want your life to look in the future, and what steps we can take to get you there.

My areas of specialty are in the following:

• Managing life transitions

• Interpersonal skills

• Anxiety/Worrying

• Depression and mood issues

• Dating and relationship struggles

Common issues discussed in therapy:

• Identifying and fostering healthy relationships

• Assertiveness without guilt

• Being over-responsible

• Emotional growth (identification and tolerance of)

• Identifying ones own wants and needs

• Value identification

• Understanding and changing unhealthy life patterns