Below is a list of my specializations. Because my style is to meet each client where they are at in life, I have worked with clients on issues not included in this list. If you don’t see your concern, reach out to see if I am the right fit or help you find someone with a specialty that matches your needs.
Specialties: use hyperlinks for more detail on each specialty
- Life Transition
- Preparing for and Transitioning to College
- Emerging Adulthood (loosely the many transitions during ages 18 – 29)
- Grief and Loss
- Finding Purpose
- Career/Continuing Education Counseling
- Moving Alone or With Your Family
- Relationship Changes
- Parent and Co-parent Coaching
- Teen/Adolescent Counseling
- Emotional Intelligence and Self Regulation
- Behavioral Health
- Substance Use/Addiction
- Anxiety & Stress Management
- Depression Symptom Management
- Managing Chronic Pain and/or Chronic Illness
- Managing Mental Health symptoms or wellness
- Lifestyle Change
- Attachment
- Trauma
While addressing your initial reason for seeking support, we also work together to fill a personalized tool box with coping skills and personal insight to better function in life.
Skill Building Areas of Focus are:
- Lifestyle Change and Symptom Management
- Emotional Understanding, Calming & Self Regulation
- Meditation/Mindfulness/Mind-Body Connection
- Effective Relational Communication Skill Development
- Executive Functioning Skills
- Decoding perfectionism, self-esteem, social anxiety and personal values.
- Examining attachment style and related behaviors
- Exposing repeated patterns of behavior, triggers and subsequent Fight/Flight/Freeze/Fawn Response
- Psycho-education on neuroscience, patterns of behavior, acceptance, coping skills, social strategies and identifying personal strengths and growing edges.