• Personal growth - it's okay to seek therapy for personal enrichment and self-knowledge without having a crisis or particular problem
• Not living up to your full potential or feeling stuck in a particular memory, problem, transition or behavior
• Needing trauma resolution and post-traumatic stress management
• Gaining understanding on how issues associated with childhood memories of sexual, physical or emotional abuse inhibit our relationships and quality of life
• Feeling emotionally and physically drained, unmotivated, disillusioned, or continuously worried or anxious
• Needing support for grief associated with a death, life transition, illness or childbearing complications
• Looking for support for specific women's issues associated with childbearing related issues and relationships
• Stuck in conflicts associated with creativity or spirituality

The decision to enter psychotherapy is courageous and takes commitment. It is a sign that we are ready to deepen our relationship with our inner world so that we can live a full and creative life in the outside world.

I view anyone who comes for psychotherapy as an individual with unique needs, skills, and strengths. For this reason, my therapeutic approach is eclectic with an emphasis on depth work that is reached through talk therapy and the use of the expressive therapies such as art, dreams, journaling, active imagination and sandtray. Attending to the mind/body connection and increasing contemplative awareness skills are also important avenues for healing. I use all of these tools only when it is clinically appropriate and when it suits you. You do not have to be an artist - only the willingness to try.

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