I am licensed in Ohio with 40 years of professional work experience. I have experience in helping clients with stress and anxiety, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, & coping with grief and loss. I believe that you are the expert of your story and that you have many strengths that will assist you in overcoming things that challenge you. It takes courage to seek out a more fulfilling and happier life and to take the first steps towards a change. I am here to support & empower you in that journey. I am an adoptee myself and have a special interest in helping anyone touched by adoption. I have also worked with birth mothers who surrendered children and women who were having issues related to abortion.
Additional areas of focus: Abandonment, Adoption and Foster Care, Aging and Geriatric Issues, Attachment issues, Communication problems, Emptiness, Family of Origin Issues, Guilt and shame, Impulsivity, Isolation / loneliness, Mood disorders , Self-love
Clinical approaches: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Psychodynamic Therapy
OH LISW I.0002005