My mission is to relieve suffering, empower individuals to find answers to life’s challenges, and experience each day as joyful and meaningful.
The wonderful thing is that counseling can be very successful using cognitive,“talk therapy” techniques. Short-term therapy can be very useful during times of transition.
In addition, If you are looking for a deeper experience- we can help you locate, explore, then safely release old buried hurt and anger using specific therapeutic techniques.
These sessions can be energetic, expressive, and often creative in nature and result in a feeling of great relief, as if a burden has been lifted. It has been our experience that whichever approach you choose, at heart it is the healing, trusting relationship with the right therapist that matters the most.
My top five parenting tips:
1) Know that this, too, shall pass. The old adage remains true. Everything is changing, life is not static. Tough times feel like they will last forever, but they do not. Good times can feel fleeting.. take time to relish them. This perspective makes rough patches easier to get through.
2) Sleep and take care of yourself!- or at least try to. Parenting is hard, important work! We often deprive ourselves of the things we need most, and these very things can make parenting less stressful! Parents – and their children – get more sleep!
3) Child rearing has been around for at least a year or two… Get information from other parents. Seek out the advice of the ones you know and even the ones you don’t.. then trust your inner voice..
4) It’s no use keeping something from your children. They’re psychic. They are extremely sensitive to your state of mind, your mood, and the overall feeling in the household. So, if your child sees you wiping tears, don’t deny you are upset, there is a way to be truthful but protective of your child at the same time.
5) Children are our teachers. Wherever the old hurts, joys, and patterns are from your own childhood, parenthood provides you with the chance to heal your past and forge your family’s new future. It’s the opportunity of a lifetime!