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About me: I am a graduate of the University of Missouri, where I earned my Master’s Degree in counseling. Since 1990 I have provided direct services to clients in a variety of settings and circumstances, from homeless and battered women’s shelters, college campuses and adolescent group homes, to residential crisis programs for clients with severe and persistent mental illness. I’ve been in private practice since 1996. I
am a Self-Relations psychotherapist whose style tends to be
straightforward yet warm and nurturing, with a healthy dose of creativity,
spontaneity, and often humor added to my approach. I enjoy working with a variety of clients and issues:
Connection:
Trauma:
Anxiety and
Addictions:
ADHD:
Other
areas:
I believe
that we’ve all experienced some amount of pain
and damage in our lives. Often, time heals these wounds. Sometimes, we just need
some extra support. In other situations, recovering from experiences of distress
may seem overwhelming, or beyond our understanding. One’s journey may focus on
healing from traumatic experiences. It may be about learning new strategies for
more effective lives and relationships. The goal might center on growing into
the fully actualized person one has the potential to be. Whatever the
destination is, a partner on that journey’s path can help us negotiate its
many twists and turns. I believe
that the role of therapy, and therapist, is to help clients understand the past,
recognize personal patterns, and change aspects of their lives that they
identify as currently causing them distress. I believe that we each deserve the gift of self-knowledge. A safe, nurturing, therapeutic relationship, within which this exploration can occur, can be the route to this gift.
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