A place where you, or your child, can feel supported and safe to explore your challenges within your own timing.
Using specific strategies, we work together to support your needs and goals for wellness and life fulfillment.

Many individuals seek out my support for depression, anxiety, anger, negative self esteem, developmental challenges, disordered eating, relationship challenges, parenting challenges, school difficulties, career changes, and life transitions.

Trauma therapy is a form of therapy that can help you deal with the emotional response caused by a negative experience or a traumatic event.
This form of therapy can help if you struggle with negative perceptions or yourself, others, or the world, are unable to cope with the trauma you experienced, or your emotions and thoughts are impacting your ability to function.

Memory reconsolidation/ reprocessing is the primary focus of many trauma treatments. Psychoeducation Moment: Emotional learning occurs when something big happens (an experience). An ‘emotional marker’ or memory is created in your brain and body. These markers/memories are hard to access. Typically they cause behaviors and feelings that can be unwanted.

Ready for an example? Stacy has trouble with relationships. She worries that if she says the wrong thing, she’ll be judged or rejected. Because of her anxiety, she doesn’t share her thoughts and feelings with her partner, keeping her further away from her partner than she wants to be. She wants to be more intimate but can’t seem to figure out how to work through her challenge.

When her therapist facilities specific strategies, Stacy’s able to remember experiences with her mom at a young age: sometimes her mom was warm and friendly yet sometimes she’d roll her eyes and say under her breath, “That’s ridiculous.” Stacy had no idea that these memories would have anything to do with her current dilemma. As her therapist and her work together following sensations, emotions, thoughts, and images, they discover that Stacy is accidentally living in memory. She’s expecting judgment if she says the wrong thing causing her to become more quiet as she did with her mother.

Our work can help with this. Since she learned these memories as a child, memory reprocessing can support be unlearning the expectation of judgement. Through our work with specific strategies, Stacy feels more free to speak and to be close to others.
Trauma recovery work is meant for more than just people who experience severe PTSD. This can be for anyone who desires more positive relationships with themselves and others.

Solution-focused coaching is an approach that helps clients identify solutions and make progress by focusing on their current skills and what works for them.
It is future-oriented: Coaches help clients define a desired future state and plan how to get there.

It is solution-focused:

• Focuses on solutions: Coaches avoid analyzing problems and instead encourage clients to focus on what's possible. 

• Uses questions: Coaches use powerful questions to open possibilities and evoke creative thinking. 

• Values past experiences: Coaches respect and value a client's past experiences as resources for learning and resilience. 

• Highlights strengths: Coaches affirm clients' strengths and accomplishments. 

• Action-oriented: Coaches give clients tasks to keep them moving forward. 

• Provides feedback: Coaches provide feedback that highlights a client's progress. 

Solution-focused coaching originated from brief therapy, a counseling approach developed in the 1950s. The OSKAR coaching model is a well-known solution-focused coaching model that stands for Outcome, Scaling, Know-How, Affirm, and Review.