• I offer (limited) sliding scale fees to make therapy more accessible to individuals from various economic backgrounds.

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    Standard Fees

    • $160 per hour for 50 minutes of individual therapy

    • $200 for 50 minutes of family therapy

  • I have been influenced by the work of many theorists, including but not limited to: Irvin D. Yalom, Jennifer Freyd, John Bowlby, Carl Jung and Gabor Mate.

    Here are some strategies I may use during our time together.

    Narrative Therapy with Storytelling

    Narrative therapy pays attention to how people make sense of their experiences and honors values. This kind of therapy allows us to see our problems as separate from who we are as people. I may use a mix of storytelling prompts to help you look at your story through a third-person lens. This can help give you new perspectives and work through problems differently than you ever have. 

    Written Exposure Therapy (WET) for PTSD

    WET is a 5 session therapeutic writing intervention that can help you find new ways to think about a traumatic experience and what it means to you.

    Inner Child and Reparenting Work 

    These techniques have been around for a while for good reason: they are effective. Reparenting work allows you the opportunity to give yourself what you didn't have growing up in a way that changes your relationship with yourself. This work involves learning new, adaptive ways of being with yourself in the world and with others. 

    Stages of Change Model for Dual Diagnosis

    This model helps us describe and talk about how a person integrates new goals and behaviors at various places in their journey of change.

    Communication and Boundaries Work

    Without clear boundaries, resentments can form, harden and hurt our closest relationships. Clarifying and communicating your boundaries is an ongoing process and it can bring up fear and anxiety—but the work is well worth it. Boundary work creates real change. 

    Motivational Interviewing Techniques

    MI is a collaborative, goal-oriented style of communication that places focus on the language of change

    Decision Trees and Decision Mapping

    Decision Mapping is a way to visually strategize and can be helpful when embarking on new territory. When you are faced with forks in the road, these tools, and discussions that arise from them, can be useful in sorting out the next right thing for you to do. 

    Adoption Constellation & Trauma Informed Counseling

    Adoption trauma-informed therapists understand that our body has memory through our senses even before we had verbal language, meaning that even if they were relinquished as a newborn, an adoptee has experienced and remembers (on a body-level) the loss of their birthmother; this is called implicit memory (Randolph, 2014). Some common themes discussed with all triad members in therapy often include: unprocessed grief, shame, identity, discovery, and search and reunion. Adoption constellation counseling is work that can be done individually and in family therapy with adoptees, birthparents and adoptive parents. 

    Search and Reunion Strategies

    This work is for anyone who is interested in connecting with long lost family members and has many stages:

    • Consideration

    • The Search Process

    • Initial Contact

    • Possible Ongoing Relationship Building. 

    Grief is always involved throughout search and reunion regardless of whether or not family is found, and regardless of whether or not they are interested in reunion. 

    In therapy, we can navigate this often rough, bumpy terrain together and consider all options.

     Some specific strategies I use during this process include: 

    • Creative Writing Prompts

    • Education and Guidance for searching

    • Resource Connection for aid with search,

    • First Contact Initiation Support and Ongoing Support, 

    • Family Counseling, 

    • Decision Making Maps  

    • Communication Role Play.

    Family Tree and Genogram Development

    The Genogram is an in-depth version of a family tree that goes back several generations and is a frequently used visual method for identifying who is in the family, and what role important family members play with respect to one another.

Counseling

Areas Of Expertise

  • When you experience a DNA surprise, it can be a major shock to your emotional system. Due to technical advancements and increased popularity of DNA sites, these discoveries are happening more frequently than ever. 

    There are many different ways one might experience a DNA Discovery:

    • A Non-Parental Event (NPE): When a person makes the discovery that at least one assumed parent is not their biological parent.

    • Late Discovery Adoptee (LDA): is someone who discovers in adulthood that they are adopted.

    • When a person learns that they have a sibling who they did not know about or when a person discovers that their grandparent is not their biological grandparent, Etc.

    After this kind of discovery you might be asking yourself big questions like:

    Who am I?

    Who can I trust?

    What do I really want to do with this new information?

    This is tough ground to cover alone. Lets talk.

  • Are you thinking about searching for family, in the process of reunion or trying to grow a new relationship with a long lost family member? Navigating search and reunion of a lost family member without a roadmap can be difficult and bewildering to say the least. Grief is almost always involved in search and reunion, regardless of whether family is found, and regardless of whether they are interested in reunion.

    You do not have to walk this path alone. I can help you learn about the ways to prepare, and the steps you might consider to take along the way. There will be times to wait and times to act and there are many resources, guides and tools that I can connect you with.

  • The adoption experience is complex and often minimized by society. The truth is, feelings and thoughts that have gone unacknowledged and unprocessed throughout an adoptee's life might force their way out through life experiences, such as; having a child of one's own, reunion or rejection with biological family, physical or mental disease created from stress held in the body, or patterns of real difficulty with intimate relationships. I work with adults who were relinquished, adopted, or who spent time in foster care. Is this you?

    I also work with parents (both adoptive and biological), siblings, and partners of adult adoptees, so that they can gain a better understanding of what might be going on with their loved one and move towards more authentic connection with them.

  • Is your relationship with alcohol, other substances, gambling, work, screen time, romance, shopping or people pleasing, making your life unmanageable?

    Are you in recovery from an addictive pattern and starting to feel the emotional pain from underlying issues?

    Let's talk.

    I also work with the family members of people struggling with addiction. It is heartbreaking and frustrating when you love someone with an addiction. It may feel next to impossible to navigate how you might actually help them. Loved ones often become sick themselves due to the cycles of stress and fear involved. No matter where you are in the family system of the disease, I can help guide you to better ground.  

  • Written Exposure Therapy (WET) is a brief, structured treatment for PTSD that helps individuals process traumatic memories by writing about them in detail over a series of guided sessions. By repeatedly confronting the trauma through writing, people reduce avoidance behaviors, process intense emotions safely, and begin to shift unhelpful beliefs tied to the experience. This repeated exposure gradually desensitizes the distress associated with the memory, leading to a reduction in PTSD symptoms. WET is efficient, typically requiring fewer sessions than traditional therapies, yet research shows it can be as effective in helping individuals integrate their trauma and regain emotional balance.

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