Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) emphasizes utilizing compassion to understand yourself and the people around you. It’s a good option for people dealing with shame or self-criticism that causes emotional distress.
Developing compassion for yourself and others requires practice. Practicing self-compassion exercises can help you manage shame and guilt, which can help you develop compassion for the people around you.
I believe counseling is a process of exploration, discovery, and personal growth. My job is to help clients learn more about themselves in a safe, caring, non-judgemental, and challenging environment. My goal is to empower clients to recognize and change their thoughts or behaviors leading to decrease anxiety/stress, decreased depression and increased self-esteem. I work with each client based ...
I am a LCSW-C therapist who works with adolescents, adults, and couples. Life has a way of presenting people with challenges that may cause you to want to seek counseling to help you navigate your way through life's ups and downs. Sometimes these challenges make us feel stuck and uncertain, whether it be relationship issues, divorce, intimacy, death of a loved one, loss of a job, grief, suicide...
If you are feeling more overwhelmed, anxious, angry or depressed than you were before the pandemic, then congratulations, you have a functioning brain and nervous system! Please feel free to reach out to me if your capacity to deal with emotions or other people are compromised these days. Feeling calm or back in control is not an exercise in logic and rationality; if it were, people would not n...
A longtime Chicagoan, I have also lived in China, France, and Japan. I use my full experience in management consulting, nonprofits, and the arts in my work as a therapist and am adept at working with people from varied backgrounds. I am astute, compassionate, and deeply committed to my clients' well-being. I engage my clients not only on the inner- and inter-personal levels, but also in the...
I have over 10 years of clinical experience in outpatient clinics, schools, private practice, and humanitarian organizations. My practice has been informed by clinical training and extensive academic background in developmental psychology. It also incorporates my life experience in coping with challenges of immigration, parenthood, career transitions and aging. I believe that healing entails...
Are you discouraged, losing hope, simply feeling stuck? Maybe you are at a pivotal place and need help in changing perspective to discover new options in how you can approach relationships with others and yourself, as well as life in general. Learn how to cultivate hope by challenging destructive belief systems. Discover creative approaches to life's challenges that can assist in managing anxie...
During this Pandemic, we are faced with difficult situations. We have no control over what is happening in the world; we can control how we respond to what is happening, that is where our inner peace lies. Difficult events and relationships give us opportunities to change. I work well with those struggling with Eating Disorders, Trauma, Depression, Anxiety, Co- Dependency, Grief, Cancer, ADHD a...
ADOPTION/ADOPTEES Are you an adult adoptee looking to receive therapy from an adoption competent counselor? Are you looking for help with understanding how being adopted can impact a persons sense of self, attachment, issues of abandonment or difficulty with interpersonal relationships? The Adoption triad includes birth parents, child, and adoptive parents. DNA testing such as Ancestry.com,...
I have been a therapist for 21 years and in this field for 22 years. I have extensive experience in crisis intervention, depression, anxiety, trauma, and stress management. I want to help my clients develop self-awareness and coping skills for their challenges by utilizing their strengths and social supports. I want my clients to be motivated to get help so they can eventually help themselves. ...
The journey of 1,000 miles begins with the first step (Lao Tzu). I view myself as a change agent and a teacher. Therapy is about learning how to become whole and achieve your maximum potential. Because of homeostasis, or one’s learned way to achieve equilibrium between interdependent elements, change requires a sustained effort. It takes courage to come to therapy and a willingness to become...
It is my passion to help inspire people to become who they can be. I believe is really does not matter where we come from, but who we want to become as people. I enjoy helping others through this journey of self understanding and empowerment to grow. You have the ability to become anyone you choose to be! An emotionally healthy grandparent, mother, father, child or adolescent. The sky is the li...
Just as we learn spoken language as children, we learn an unspoken language of relationship. Just as the words we hear become the words we speak, the way we're treated becomes the basis for how we treat others, and how we expect to be treated by the people in our lives. We learn to define ourselves according to the terms by which we were defined, but most of us suspect that there's more to the...
***Not accepting new clients*** Is there some change you are seeking in your life? While depression can keep us stuck in the past and anxiety can pull us into the future, it is possible to cultivate greater self compassion and to be more present. As human beings we are connected in that each of us experiences pain and suffering, and yet we are also capable of great joy, growth and resiliency....
My clinical work has consisted of treating a variety of clients with different backgrounds, experiences, and concerns. I am particularly interested in developing goals with you, and/or your child, that are relevant to your current situation that can help you and/or your child move forward in an effective and healthy manner. I have experience with treating interpersonal relationship problems,...
