Counseling & psychotherapy
More and more people are beginning to understand the importance of maintaining mental health and wellbeing as being vitally connected to a holistic approach to health care. Seeking professional support, during periods of stress, or when experiencing depression or other difficulties, is a healthy choice, as it provides perspective and encouragement to heal, to release, as well as to set and attain goals.
Common concerns
| Relationships | Self-Esteem |
| Stress | Anxiety |
| Depression | Eating Disorders |
| Weight Loss | Chronic Illness |
| Anger | Assertiveness |
| Family | Time Management |
| Suicidal Thoughts | Discrimination |
| Sexuality | Social Isolation |
| Grief | Sexual Abuse |
| Relocation adjustment | Pregnancy and Adoption |
| Sleep disturbances |
Nature of business
I work with people from every age group and nationality, (in English only). I typically see individuals and couples, and when appropriate I facilitate group work. I provide psychotherapy/counseling/therapy which is very individualized. Depending on the client and their needs, we may work on cognitive restructuring (from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), learning appropriate coping skills, healing old wounds, reducing stress, treating depression, developing a positive image, and planning a healthy way forward. I work from a holistic, spiritual approach. I am very accepting of people and help them feel safe and comfortable working, healing and growing with me.
Some reasons people come for counseling are: anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, health problems, grief, loss, difficulty becoming pregnant, parenting issues, separation, divorce, stress from relocating, feeling isolated, postpartum depression, sexual troubles, career indecision or difficulties, etc.
I also provide consultation services to companies, primarily working with management level employees, doing assessments and coaching.
Guided Visualization
I offer guided visualization as an option in therapy. The client can choose to have one session of guided visualization or many, in combination with traditional "talk therapy" or independently. The notion of "alternative" therapies may sound like unproven, "new-age" techniques. But these therapies, when provided by a well trained professional, are very valuable. They are firmly grounded in decades of research, documented and endorsed not only by those who have benefited by them, but also by the most conservative of administrative bodies (American Medical Association).
Experiencing guided visualization, you can experience extraordinary relaxation during which your critical, analytical mind can rest while your inner wisdom, your conscious and subconscious mind can work in harmony to bring about the changes you desire.
Meditation
It is advisable to practice meditation as it has many proven benefits to a person's holistic wellbeing. It is not uncommon to enter therapy with an expectation of wanting to get rid of some problematic behavior, feeling or relationship. However, we cannot heal that which we are unable to accept. And we cannot accept that which we are unable to observe in ourselves. In therapy and through meditation on your own, you can practice dropping into our body/mind experience, in this moment, exactly as it is - without judgement or the need to change it. Habitual thinking is always removing us from connecting with our present vitality. By cultivating an ability to observe ourselves in the moment without taking flight on every single thought that enters our mind, or every single impulse our body experiences, we are able to contact our intrinsic health or our "true nature".
- The Benefits of Meditation
- The brain waves of meditators show why they're healthier. Neuroscientists have
found that meditators shift their brain activity to different areas of the
cortex—brain waves in the stress-prone right frontal cortex move to the calmer
left frontal cortex. In other words, they were calmer and happier than before.
- Psychology Today