Let's Get to the Root of the Solution!! 

Therapy should be fun.  It should invigorate you and let you feel happier while leaving than you did coming in.  It should be something you look forward to, not something you push yourself to get through.  My goal is for you to leave the sessions feeling lighter, more energized, and more enthusiastic about your future.  My goal is to enthrive; and to help you do the same for yourself. Counseling is not an event or an appointment, but rather a skills session for your brain, to help it develop new methods of looking at the world and relating to it and other people. 

By re-engaging our brain's neuroplasticity, it's ability to build new pathways, we provide greater, more long-term change than simple behavioral modification programs. Also by training our brain to understand the world according to a preferred interpretation, we utilize it's natural predictive nature to increase the speed and extent of the cognitive change. 

My method of therapy can best be demonstrated by coming in for a free 30 minute consultation, but I'll try to describe it here a bit too. 

Narrative Therapy is structured to perform several very important processes. The first is to properly name and identify the problem.  It's a problem if it is a problem. After this I work to help find what a person's preferred way of living has been and will be in the future and then help them explore how the problem is keeping them from achieving these goals. Remember the process of therapy will not return you to your pre-problem state of living; it will help you use the skills you already have and will develop in beating the problem to help you move towards who you want to be. You will come out better and stronger than before. 

When I made the decision to become a counselor I was 16 years old. Now, after another eight years of schooling, five internships, hundreds of hours of classes and thousands of hours of face-to-face time with real people, I realize that being a "counselor" doesn't really say much about what you do.

I specialize in Substance Misuse (Alcohol and Drug problems), Anxiety, Mood Disorders and issues of Adoption. I really see these as areas where I have experience implementing what I really specialize in:  facilitating change in cognitive and emotional responses to the world around us, so that one can change their behavior and fulfillment in life. 

I do this through a structured method wrapped in an unstructured format.  My theoretical orientation is based on Narrative Therapy, modified to include emerging Neuroscience findings about brain change and Neuroplasticity. 

How to pay for it, how I get paid and what you can expect from week to week on the financial and insurance end.