There are many issues in life which can be improved with therapy.  Here is how I help adults navigate the following areas of life: 

• Family Life Cycles and Life Transitions:  As individuals go through transitions of the life cycle, they experience stress.  Leaving home for college, bringing home a new baby, and emptying the nest are examples of transitions which can be rocky for individuals and their families.  Even happy transitional circumstances can bring about a host of mental health concerns such as depression, anxiety, self-doubt, and ambivalence toward people who are otherwise leading productive and normal lives.  Support through therapy is an excellent way to help clients figure out the next steps as they navigate the unchartered territory of life cycles.
  
  
• Depression, Anxiety and Mental Wellness:   Do you feel sad or empty when there doesn’t seem to be a reason for these feelings?  Are you going through a hard patch where your mood is low?  Do you feel anxious when things are going ok?  It’s normal to have times where we feel sad, nervous, or a combination of both.  But if your anxiety and depression are becoming more serious, talk therapy can go a long way to give you the tools to handle dark or anxious days.   Cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, and psychodynamic therapy are just a few of the tools I use.   
  
  
• Low Self – Esteem:  Do you suffer from imposter syndrome?  Do you feel a dip in confidence at work or home?  Do you find that you need to please others?   Low self – esteem is one reason many clients seek therapy.   I use the latest research to help my clients envision what they want to be doing, and then help them find ways to reduce the obstacles holding them back such as procrastination, time management, secondary gains.  Once my clients can get past these obstacles, they are able to complete tasks toward their goals and experience increased self-esteem.
  
  
• Communication and Assertiveness:  Everyone needs to be heard!  Do you have difficulty expressing yourself at home, with your friends, or at work? Do you feel like it is hard to get folks to listen to what you have to say?  Many clients are not aware of their negative communication patterns and the way their communication impacts others in very important areas of their lives.  With therapy, they are able to identify their negative communication patterns and learn the tools to steer their communication toward assertive communication.  This helps in all situations ranging from family to work to everything in between.  
  
  
• Relationships:  Are you feeling alone, disconnected, or isolated in your relationships?  Is this a pattern which you are noticing across relationships?  Lack of connection is painful and good relationships are integral to wholistic wellbeing. That's why improving relationships is often a focus of therapy.  Folks come to therapy to improve and repair several of their romantic and other relationships.  Friendships, working relationships, family relationships and mother-daughter relationships are some of the relationship issues successfully addressed in therapy.  While I do use couples therapy, many people are not aware that relationships can often be improved through individual therapy.  I encourage clients to look at the patterns they might be bringing to relationships.  This awareness usually goes a long way in improving relationships.
  
  
• Coping with children’s therapy/mental health:  Are you concerned about the best way to support your child?  Do you worry about the impact of social media or the refusal to do chores?  Is your child in therapy and you are confused how to best support them?  Let’s face it, raising emotionally healthy children is harder than ever!  Support for parents is crucial for many reasons, namely because the child spends more time at home than anywhere else AND because the parents often do want to learn how to help.  Parents also need support for their feelings of guilt, responsibility, helplessness, and hopelessness. 
   
• Loss, Stress and Adjustment:  Are you dealing with a loss or new situation?  While loss, stress and adjustment are a part of life, constant states of stress are physiologically damaging due to the constant release of the stress hormone cortisol in the body.  Talk therapy is especially helpful to help clients process events and manage the stress which accompanies these situations.  I work existentially with clients to discern how much control they have over events in their lives – usually it is not much.  From there, I use therapeutic techniques such as mindfulness, CBT, breathing and meditation, and solution focused therapy to reframe and reduce stress so that physiological wellness and new manners of coping can be restored.
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• ​College Students and Young Professionals:  Adulting is a very dynamic part of life laden with its own unique set of challenges.  In this generation, it is taking longer for young adults to establish their independence and sense of purpose.  This understandably impacts the necessary development of identity and psychological wellbeing, as well as the parents’ ability to empty nest and retire.  Through therapy, I help young adults and their parents navigate this often confusing but emotional developmental stage.