I am a Professional Licensed Counselor in the state of New Jersey since 1999. I am also a certified rehabilitation counselor and have worked with clients’ different aspects of disabilities including psychiatric, medical, or cognitive or special education category.I also do some career counseling.
My approach is warm, and client centered. I also use Motivational Interviewing Techniques, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness or any other approach meeting an individual client’s needs. I like to use eclectic approach utilizing more than one approach at a different stage with a client or different approaches with different clients. My specialty is to work with clients who have stress, depression, ADHD, Autism, ambivalence in decision making, and seeking career direction.
I would describe myself warm, compassionate, empathic, supportive, and effective.
Additional areas of focus: Addictions, Relationship issues, Family conflicts, Grief, Intimacy-related issues, Eating disorders, Sleeping disorders, Parenting issues, Anger management, Bipolar disorder, Coping with life changes, Compassion fatigue, ADHD, Adoption and foster care, Autism and Asperger Syndrome, Body image, Commitment issues, Communication problems, Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD), Domestic violence, Emptiness, Family problems, Guilt and shame, Hoarding, Intellectual disability, Isolation / loneliness, Jealousy, Life purpose, Mood disorders, Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD, Paranoia, Phobias, Post-traumatic stress, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), Social anxiety and phobia, Somatization, Traumatic brain injury, Workplace issues
Clinical approaches: Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Therapy
NJ LPC 37PC00001200