Couples & Families
Relationships with loved ones are very important to us all, but they can sometimes be challenging and difficult. We work to help each person in the relationship to increase emotional intimacy and improve communication, which can help lead to more satisfying and fulfilling relationships.
Premarital Education
If you are married, engaged, or in a relationship, PREPARE/ENRICH is a program that can help you and your partner prepare for a strong, healthy, and lasting relationship.
Adult Family Therapy
I work with adult families on resolving long-standing problems and concerns, helping them to develop more healthy, open, and honest ways of communicating their needs and desires to one another.
Adolescents
Life can sometimes be tough for teenagers. Therapy can teach them how to understand their needs and emotions and express them in appropriate ways, and empower then to develop healthy relationships, positive coping skills, good self-esteem, to become happier and more resilient, and to help them confidently achieve their goals.
The Hoarding Project
The Hoarding Project aims to bring together people who hoard, families and friends, professionals, researchers, and the media in a supportive environment to help begin the tough conversations about hoarding behavior.
Welcome
Therapy is an intimate and life-changing journey. Deciding to pursue counseling and looking for help can be a difficult decision and an overwhelming task, but taking the first step is a healthy choice and may be the beginning of significant life change.
Therapy is an intensely unique process that is different for every person, couple, or family. This means that there is no one ready-made therapy that works for everyone. Since life is a continual journey, with many bumps along the way, ultimately therapy helps by assisting you in building on your own strengths in the face of personal adversity.
Reasons for choosing psychotherapy may include the following:
- Addictions or addictive behaviors
- Anger & Behavioral problems
- Anxiety & Fear Disorders
- Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity (ADHD)
- Grief, Death & Dying
- Life transitions
- Mood Disorders (like depression)
- Personal Growth (Difficult Life Transitions; Lack of direction, feeling “stuck”; Identity issues)
- Personality Disorders
- Professional Growth
- Relationship difficulties
- Sexuality
- Stress Management
While this list is by no means inclusive, your therapy may help you in one or more of the following ways:
- Rediscover a sense of purpose
- Develop the ability to construct realistic plans
- Bring passion back into your life
- Learn how to relax and techniques to assist you
- Balance priorities
- Develop assertiveness skills in negotiation and decision making
- Learn how to have fun again
- Improve communication within personal and professional relationships
- Gain an ability to set boundaries
- Learn how to move past anxiety
- Allow yourself to be open to intimacy
- Gain confidence in your abilities
Background
I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with experience since 2007 working with individuals, couples, adolescents and families providing therapy services. In my Tacoma…
Credentials
LMFT, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Washington
Doctoral Student, University of Minnesota. Major: Family Social Science, Marriage…
Philosophy
Counseling is a voluntary therapeutic experience that I feel is most effective when all parties are actively involved in the activities of the session. In my Tacoma-based practice…