I am licensed in Virginia with 30 years of professional work experience in Behavioral Health. I offer support, powerful techniques, and insights to help you overcome chronic stress and anxiety, phobias, depressed mood; family, interpersonal, and relationship issues; traumatic stress and coping and coming to terms with grief and loss. I work with my clients to create an open and safe environment where thoughts and feelings can be shared without fear of judgment. Taking the first step to change toward a more fulfilling and happier way of living takes courage. I am here to guide and support you through and beyond those first steps to real life improvements
Additional areas of focus: Addictions, Relationship issues, Eating disorders, Parenting issues, Anger management, Self esteem, Career difficulties, ADHD, Chronic pain, illness, and disability, Codependency, Communication problems, Control issues, Coping with natural or human-caused disaster, Dissociation, Emptiness, Expats, Family of origin issues, Fatherhood issues, Forgiveness, Guilt and shame, Hoarding, Isolation / loneliness, Jealousy, Life purpose, Men's issues, Midlife crisis, Military and veterans issues, Mood disorders, Multicultural concerns, Panic disorder and panic attacks, Phobias, Post-traumatic stress, Prejudice and discrimination, Self-love, Social anxiety and phobia, Workplace issues, Young adult issues
Clinical approaches: Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Existential Therapy, Hypnotherapy, Mindfulness Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Somatic Therapy
VA LPC 0701003179