“We’re all just walking each other home.” - Ram Dass
Individual Therapy
Are you currently struggling with depression? Having difficulty in your relationships? Feeling overwhelmed? If you're tired of how things are going, and are ready to make some changes, let’s talk. Together we can identify past and present factors contributing to these feelings and explore the root of what's holding you back, so you can move forward and live a happier and more fulfilled life.
During individual therapy, you will have a safe space to begin to:
Find direction– Identify what makes you happy, what matters to you, how to embody balance, and how to live a more conscious and meaningful life.
Tackle trying life events – Acquire tools to help navigate traumatic events, financial upsets, illness, grief, breakups, unhealthy work environments, career choices, or challenging family dynamics.
Recognize triggers – Recognize recurring, maladaptive patterns in your life and learn methods to rewire your autonomic nervous system through mind-body methods including biofeedback.
Manage intense emotions– Feel less incapacitated by anxiety, depression, anger, stress, grief and be more self-aware.
Improve your relationship with others– Develop strategies to feel more connected, supported, and understood by those in your life.
Set goals – Identify what you want out of your relationships, your health and wellness, and your career, then formulate action-oriented steps to achieve your goals.
Live authentically– Realize that who you are is enough; accept your full self and show more compassion and love to the person you are (versus the person you think you “should” be).
Identify and heal trauma – Generational, systemic, single incidents, or lifetimes of hardship can leave us feeling reactive, disempowered, and unable to meet our full potentials. Through intentional exploration of our traumas, we can gain tools to move past our scars and draw on our resilience and innate abilities to heal.
Ketamine Assisted Therapy (KAP)
What is Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)?
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy, or KAP, is an intensive psychotherapy that helps promote neuroplasticity and rewires emotional responses. With proper preparation and integration, KAP can help shift from ordinary consciousness in order to break ongoing cycles of negative thinking and emotional states. and can help to shift one’s thinking out of habitual cycles of negative thoughts and emotional states. KAP can help to facilitate profound transpersonal and mystical experiences. Such experiences can offer important clarity and insight into one’s struggles, add a deeper dimension to ongoing therapeutic work, and facilitate a sense of meaning and interconnectedness.
What is Ketamine and how does it work?
Ketamine enhances healing in the brain through multiple pathways. A main action path for Ketamine is on the NDMA receptor site, increasing activity of the neurotransmitter glutamate. This may enhance mood, decrease anxiety, and decrease the cravings found in addiction. Neurogenesis or growth of neuronal connections can occur, along with a decrease in the inflammatory response in the brain and body. Ketamine may ultimately allow for novel connections to be made (neuroplasticity) across areas of the brain that allow for change and healing to take place. This may translate into enhanced enjoyment of life, renewed sense of connections in relationships, and elevation of positive mood
How long do treatments last?
KAP sessions last approximately 2 to 3 hours. The varying length of time depends on dose, response to the medicine, recovery time, and what you are working on. Frequency of KAP depends upon your treatment goals. Some patients may want only a single KAP session, while others will need multiple sessions.
Does my insurance cover KAP?
Parts of KAP treatment including preparation and integration can be covered under most insurances.
Family Therapy
Families shape who we are along with our unique world views and provide the foundations for attachment in our adult relationships. At times, families can get stuck in unhealthy patterns where conflict becomes inevitable. Through family therapy, we will explore the current level of functioning, allow each family member to have a voice, and identify new ways of relating to each other to improve overall dynamics.
Whether you are looking for support for just yourself, you and a partner, as a foster/adoptive parent, or you and a co-parent, we can all work together to find what works best in your family’s unique situation.
While participating in family therapy, we will incorporate evidence based approaches in a safe space to:
Address challenging teenage behaviors– Adolescence can be riddled with challenging decisions and struggles to formulate an identity. Family therapy can help with issues including suicidal ideation, truancy, eating disorders, substance use, and healthy boundaries.
Identify your parenting style– Too many rules? Not enough? Let’s work together to identify what is best for your entire family unit.
Improve co-parenting– Whether fundamental parenting differences, geography, or a divorce has forced you into separate parenting corners, family therapy can help parents get back to being a unified-front for your children and ensure consistency in the home.
Increase warmth and communication– Identify current roles, rules, and responsibilities for all family members within the unit and explore dysfunctional patterns of communication. Through evidence-based interventions, family therapy can help improve effective communication and increase warmth.
Prioritize self-care– It really does take a village. Family therapy is designed to help parents work through feelings of burnout in order to prioritize individual wellness within the family.
Couples Counseling
As humans, we need each other and we need thriving relationships in order to survive. If you’re finding it increasingly difficult to communicate with your partner, unable to heal from a betrayal, desperate to deepen intimacy, and wanting to learn new ways to feel more secure in your relationship, couples counseling can help. Most people assume that couples counseling is only to fix problems, however, therapy can also be used preventatively as a way to create a strong foundation so your relationship can withstand tough times.
Couples counseling can be an effective tool to assist with:
Redefining– what your identities are and how your relationship evolves within the context of a growing family.
Coaching- each partner by exploring new ways to communicate feelings, wants and needs within the relationship, while also addressing and exploring the underlying need for love, security, acceptance and attachment from each partner.
Understanding– why everything you have tried does not seem to work.
Security– as a part of premarital counseling and at the beginning of a relationship to feel more committed, confident, secure, and aligned.
Growth- during marriage and long term partnership to ensure that connection continues.
Navigating- betrayal or infidelity in order to repair a partnership or respectfully part ways.
Acceptance- creating a safe, stigma free environment to discuss non-traditional relationships.
Changing– patterns of relating that are no longer working in your partnership.
Building- tools and skills to increase fun and warmth in your relationship, improve intimacy, and better understand what you need, want, and how to achieve it as a couple.
Clinical Supervision
I am excited to support you in your personal and professional journeys. I have 17 years of experience in the field of mental health and love providing therapists with support and guidance while exploring potential career paths.
While receiving clinical supervision, LPC’s will be encouraged to:
Ask questions! Get curious! I provide real, honest direction and feedback about the profession, career options, and training opportunities.
Talk about your personal experiences! Let’s unpack life experiences that could potentially impact your efficacy as a professional counselor.
Be honest! I want to know what you want to get from clinical supervision in order to tailor our sessions to best suit your needs as a growing professional.
Laugh! This career path can have unique challenges; I take a fun approach to supervision and career development.
