Participating in therapy can result in a number of benefits, including: • Processing thoughts and feelings about your current and past experiences and personal history • Attaining a better understanding of yourself, your goals, and values • Developing skills for improving your relationships • Finding resolution to the issues or concerns that led you to seek therapy • Learning new ways to cope with stress and anxiety • Managing anger, grief, depression, and other emotional pressures • Improving your self-esteem and boosting self-confidence • Changing old behavior patterns and developing new ones • Discovering new ways to solve problems • Improving communication and listening skills, enhancing relationship connection

Successful therapy requires confidentiality and a high degree of trust. You can expect that what you discuss in session will not be shared with anyone. In the event you want me to share information or give an update to someone, by law I cannot release this information without obtaining your written permission. This is called "Informed Consent". If I am seeing you as part of a couple, both partners must give informed consent.

In our first few sessions, whether you are meeting with me as an individual or as a couple with your partner, we'll spend time getting to know each other and discussing what's brought you to therapy, your lived history of experiences and relationships, and anything else that it is important to you to share. This is an opportunity to ask questions and consider ways you're hoping to benefit from therapy. Questions are always welcome when we work together. As we continue, our sessions will combine conversation and reflection, focusing on the events in your life – both past and present. Together, we'll work to uncover the patterns and ways of being that influence your experiences, highlighting both your strengths and the challenges you face, individually or as a couple. We'll engage deeply with your perceptions, feelings and thoughts, exploring how they shape your behavior, responses and experiences. Above all, my role is to create a safe space for you to explore who you are and want to become, individually and in relationship with others.

I typically meet with clients on a weekly basis, and each session lasts 55 minutes. Meeting weekly builds momentum and helps develop our therapeutic relationship. This frequency supports meaningful progress toward your goals. As we move forward, we will have the opportunity to adjust session frequency in response to your sense of readiness to meet bi-weekly or monthly. The duration of therapy is entirely up to you; some clients find a handful of sessions sufficient, while others benefit from deeper exploration and support over a longer period, broadening insight, capacities, and perspectives.

I value in-person, face-to-face connection, which I find can be particularly important when you work with me as a couple. That said, I understand that sometimes meeting virtually is preferred, or circumstances, our locations, or other factors make virtual sessions the best option; I want to accommodate what’s best for you. If we choose to meet online, we will do so using a HIPPA-protected Telehealth platform.

I am an out-of-network provider, not paneled with any insurance. I offer a monthly superbill you may choose to submit to your insurance company for possible reimbursement at the out-of-network rate for your plan. I encourage you to explore your benefits to determine what reimbursement your insurance will provide.

Relational therapy focuses on the idea that emotional well-being and healing happen through human connection. It takes as its starting point the person, considering any challenges you are facing, but also exploring the inner landscapes and layers that make up who you are. This results in a more thorough understanding of and engagement with the complexity we all hold inside of us. Through relational therapy you can clarify how you want to lead the next phase of your life: you can reflect on relationships; explore questions of meaning; develop greater insight into your emotions; manage life transitions; rediscover sides of yourself beyond those currently in use. In relational therapy, an open, trusting therapeutic relationship provides the foundation for support, growth, and change.

While a specialty of my practice is working with aging-related and health concerns, I welcome adults of all ages experiencing life transitions and adjustments, grief and loss, stress, depression, or anxiety.

Like you, I continue to learn about myself, about how I experience and am affected by changes and shifts during each stage of my life, in my relationships with others and in our interactions and lives together. We are biological beings; we grow like the trees grow: with the seasons. Certification as a Mental Health and Aging Specialist means that I have completed advanced training to meet the mental health and emotional needs of older adults and caregivers as they navigate unique opportunities and perhaps unexpected challenges that later-life brings.