SERVICES

ADULT PSYCHOTHERAPY

Anxiety and Depression: Anxiety and depression are often looked at as two sides of the same coin and many people experience them together. Sometimes it has been an on-going problem or the feelings are in reaction to a specific life stressor, i.e. the loss or illness of a loved one, your own illness, divorce, loss of a job or career, etc. With mild to severe depression and/or anxiety, it is very helpful to have a caring, yet objective person who is trained to help you work things through, even if you are already taking medication.

Grief: Grief is the painful form love takes after death. It comes in waves over time and can be a confusing, destabilizing process that I can help you understand and navigate.

LGBTQ: Therapy can be a safe place to share your struggles, be it discovering and accepting one’s non-traditional gender or sexuality, coming out to family and friends or living in the world as other than binary or heterosexual.

Relationship Difficulties: I work with all kinds of couples, including romantic couples, friendships, siblings, and parents and adult children. I also help individuals who find themselves having the same types of problems in one relationship after another,or are having difficulty finding a relationship or ending. Difficulty finding or ending a relationship.

Coping With Illness in Yourself or a Loved One: When one member of a family has medical issues it impacts the whole family emotionally and practically in different ways. Illness itself or the treatment may cause depression/anxiety, or, at the very least, acute or chronic illness can put one at higher risk for anxiety and depression.

Life Transitions: These include transitions from full-time parenting to work and visa versa, from a single life to marriage or co-habitation, from school into the workplace, empty nest, retirement, divorce, becoming a parent and so on.

Social Difficulties: This can be problems in the workplace, with friends, making friends or being in large groups if the problem impacts your functioning or well-being.

Work or Career Issues: Relationships with bosses, employees, and co-workers, difficulty succeeding in your career and problems finding the right career are just some of the issues I treat.

ADOLESCENT PSYCHOTHERAPY

Depression, Anxiety and Mood Changes: normal adolescent feelings or something more?

Peer relationships and social anxiety/shyness

School problems: learning issues, under-achieving, poor organizational skills, lack of motivation

Developmental Lags: Is your adolescent socially or emotionally immature?

Compliance with authority: parents, school and community

Divorce or death of a parent

Illness, illness in a parent or sibling

CHILD PSYCHOTHERAPY

Anxiety and Depression: depression in particular can look quite different in children, sometimes showing itself as hyperactivity, change in grades or, in young children, loss of developmental gains

Peer Relationships and social anxiety/shyness

School: behavior, learning difficulties. under-achieving, poor organizational skills, lack of motivation

Developmental Lags: Is your child? socially or emotionally immature?

Is your child socially, emotionally or behaviorally immature?

Divorce or Death of a Parent/family member

Illness: hospitalization, medical procedures, loss of capacity, or a parent’s or family member’s illness

Compliance With Parental Authority

Parent Consultation: from pregnancy through adolescence, the pre-college process through beginning college, transitioning to a good (yet different) relationship with your adult child