I provide psychotherapy to adults, children, and adolescents addressing a wide range of challenges. Please feel free to ask about any issues not listed below.
Specialties
- Adoption: adult and adolescent adoptees, play therapy with adopted children, reunion, birth-parents, adoptive families, birth-siblings
- Childhood trauma: incest, sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional and physical neglect, exposure to domestic violence
- Relationships: family discord, insecurities and vulnerabilities, over-dependence, fear of abandonment, chronically intense or unstable relationships
- Infertility: female and male factor infertility, in vitro fertilization (IVF), gestational carriers, intrauterine insemination (IUI)
General Practice
- Depression: sadness, low self-esteem, feeling hopeless, fatigue, poor motivation, lack of sex drive, decreased enjoyment in usual activities
- Anxiety/fear: excessive worry, panic attacks, racing thoughts, concern about being perfect, “good enough” or “fitting-in”, rigid need for control, perfectionism, inflexible rules, obsessive thoughts, compulsive behaviors
- Codependence: partners and children of alcoholics and substance abusers
- Life Transitions: loss of a loved one, re-building after divorce, job changes, moves, pre-marital counseling
- Workplace and School Issues: conflict with co-workers or teachers and peers