Psychological Services
I provide collaborative psychotherapy and consultation for individuals (age 6 – 50) and their families. I frequently help clients to address areas of emotional, social, academic, or occupational concerns and to enhance their well-being and emotional, social, and academic skills. Below I have listed specific issues or skills that I frequently help clients address.
Emotion-Focused Goals for:
- General anxiety and worry
- Panic attacks
- Separation anxiety
- Social anxiety
- Fears or phobias
- OCD – Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Perfectionism
- Depression & other mood disorders
- Anger and oppositional behavior
- Guilt and shame
- Grief from loss of a relationship or loved one
- Low self-esteem
- Emotional skill building
Academic & Social Goals for:
- ADHD – Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
- Executive skills deficits (issues with initiating and sustaining thinking and behavior)
- Emotional, social, and academic process counseling for student with learning disorders
- Parent-parent communication and co-parenting difficulties
- Parent-child communication
- Family conflict
- Social & relationship difficulties
- Social Skill Building
- Academic Skill Building (see Academic Counseling)
Identity & Coping Goals for:
- Independence struggles and difficulty individuating from parents
- Positive identity development
- Sexuality & sexual identity concerns
- Substance abuse (primarily alcohol and marijuana addiction)
- Adjustment and skill-building for family members of individuals with addiction
- Eating and body image issues
- Adjustment to parental separation, divorce, or remarriage
- Adjustment to moving homes, schools, or careers/jobs