Move beyond survival & stress and
into a life that is affirming.
Expert counseling for adults in Pennsylvania
From surviving to thriving
Living with anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, and relational conflicts is difficult.
Feeling stressed, irritable, sad, losing sleep, and worrying is draining and impacts relationships, work performance, school, and friendships. Everything builds and no one seems to understand.
Create a space to reduce the noise, and care better for yourself. Affirm your inner resources. Identify and build a life that feels connected to your values and leaves you feeling more present and satisfied. Live into the fullness, variety, and acceptance of the changes that come in life.
Move beyond survival and stress and into a life that is affirming, move daily with awareness and compassion for all of life’s unseasonable moments and seasons!
Specialties
Identify and build a life that feels connected to your values and leaves you feeling more present and satisfied. Live into the fullness, variety, and acceptance of the changes that come in life.
The journey of becoming a parent is a significant developmental life-stage.It can evoke powerful emotions, changes in relationships, and questions about oneself.It is an all-encompassing experience that is filled with incredible joys, but also baffling contradictions and challenges.
Making decisions, experiencing life transitions or changesin career, relationships, movement into adulthood can be tough! Building inner resilience tools to stayflexible and adaptive, caring for yourself amidst change or 'unseasonableweather periods of life' are essential. Instead of focusing solely on external goals, we will venture within. You have inner resources and wisdom to anchor upon and live in a deeply personal, value-driven, core ‘knowing.’ You desire to move from surviving and into thriving and fuller acceptance of life and its unpredictable changes.
I have specialized training in Dr. Kristin Neff's Mindful Self Compassion Institute, which serves as an important foundation as I build a safe, caring, and workable therapeutic relationship with you.This mindful self-compassion orientation is complemented by active/creative skill-building techniques and healthy management of emotions in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
I guide and support clients who are open to exploring their values and what can motivate healthy change and/or simply learn to sit with emotion and engage with it differently.When appropriate, I may integrate humor, creative metaphors when skill building, and compassionate framing around discussed challenges. The past is viewed with empathy and understanding to better live in the present.
