I enjoy helping clients accept and like themselves, organize around strengths, achieve greater emotional presence, think clearly, and let go of shame, guilt and old habits of emotional survival. I believe therapy should lead to better decisions, as well as improved quality of life and relationships.
Therapy can provide that space to discuss your process and how loss has impacted you. As your therapist, I will hold space with you and honor your experiences however they arrive.
Life is full of loss. Maybe someone close to you has a died or a significant relationship recently ended. Some loss is expected, and at other times completely out of the what might be anticipated. There is no right way to grieve; I will help support you in your natural process. Integrating ritual and body-centered therapy, I will help you move through the waves of grief to honor your loved one and build resilience. I specialize in working with complicated grief and moral injury.
Marriage and Family Therapist, Marriage and Family Therapist
I am a Marriage and Family Therapist with over 15 years experience helping adolescents, family, couples and individuals reach a happy and fulfilling life. I provide a safe and compassionate environment where I welcome any experience with no judgments, no matter what the struggle is.
My approach is non-pathologizing, strength-based and solution-focused. I work in a very humanistic, systemic way and often use cognitive-behavioral methods. I keep my client informed as we go…empowering them to “own†what we discover so they can transform the aspects of themselves and their
The relationship between the therapist and the client is the most important factor in providing "successful" therapy. I provide a safe, nonjudgmental environment where you can explore the pain of your loss. I have a certificate in grief and loss and have experience in working with clients who have lost those close to them. The goal is to help you achieve freedom from the pain you are currently experiencing.
To focus your attention and explore your inner self is some of the bravest and most powerful work there is. Psychotherapy, with the simple processes of attention and compassion can lead to deep and lasting change. I work collaboratively with you and use Hakomi Method Psychotherapy, and other methods
Grief is a season without end. It consumes, suffocates, diffuses. It is days of silence. It is unfeeling as a stone. It is raw as a volcano, erupting, tears for hours on end. Grief and loss are also incredibly human experiences. They confirm that we are living, feeling, complex creatures capable of more. Our capacity for grief is commiserate with our capacity for love.
A wise man once wrote, "the sadness of grieving allows our heart to let go of what it cannot have so that it can prepare for what it can have." Death is the great equalizer and Grief is a hard reality of life. At Growth and Change Counseling, we come alongside you and help you engage a healthy grief process that moves you from that point of loss into a place where you are able to give meaning to the person you loved and satisfaction in the new realities of life before you. We are experienced Grief therapists, call us today!