Description
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and Credentialed Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Counselor (CASAC) with 16 years of experience doing clinical work with individuals and couples. I have worked with people who are LGBTQ, experience sexual dysfunction, depression, anxiety, mental health concerns, trauma, chronic health conditions and addictions. I specialize in sex therapy with diverse people seeking to increase intimacy, improve communication surrounding sex, manage sexual dysfunction and provide discernment counseling. I offer sex positive therapy to people with various identities and orientations, who are monogamous, ENM/CNM, plural relationships, engage in kinks and non traditional lifestyles. Therapy can be short or long term focusing on holistic wellness and assisting people with interpersonal relationships, managing daily stressors, decreasing anxiety, developing self care routines and improving their quality of life.
I offer individual, couple and group therapy that provides a compassionate, culturally sensitive safe space. My approach is integrative, humanistic (client centered), relational, solution focused, utilizing cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), psychodynamic approaches, and mindfulness techniques including meditation and breath work to facilitate change. Clients should expect an empathetic and direct approach utilizing client’s strengths, beliefs systems and coaching to assist with developing areas of interest in their lives. My approach is person centered therapy utilizing client’s self determination and resources to develop practical tools to improve their mental health, relationships and achieve goals. Clients have the option of therapy with an in depth holistic exploration of the mind, body, and spirit connections that effect overall wellness, including mood and life circumstances. This holistic exploration is done by assessing how beliefs systems, diet, substance use, daily activity and internal dialogue impact a clients’s quality of life.
