Traditional counseling and psychological services are designed to treat mental health disorders. This is why insurance companies require that a patient receive a diagnosis in order to have the treatment covered. Unfortunately, this approach neglects a significant portion of the population that do not have severe symptoms or a true clinical diagnosis. Many people are looking for help addressing problems that are not related to a mental illness. This is where mental health coaching can be so beneficial. 

With this in mind, I provide coaching services to help individuals and couples achieve more peace and ease in their lives, find new directions, get unstuck from a variety of situations, reduce anxiety, stress and low moods, and attain a greater sense of well-being and insight.

I also provide more traditional psychotherapy approaches using a combination of Internal Family Systems, mindfulness, psychodynamic and interpersonal therapies.

Life sometimes feels overwhelming and stressful, or maybe dull and flat. At times these feelings are relatively small - just a noise in the background - but they’re niggling at us all the same. Other times, they loom large and we experience anxiety, depression or stress. We get stuck and just can’t find our way out.

During these times it seems to us that our problems are coming from “out there” - our boss, our partner, our kids, our career, our bank account. We think we need to work hard on ourselves or on our circumstances to make things okay.

Over the years. I have come to know that having more joy, contentment, security, passion and connection isn’t about fixing what’s out there or making ourselves better. It is actually a much simpler task of understanding how we work inside and being able to see more clearly where our struggles come from. When we see this, we can ride through life with grace, ease and joy regardless of circumstances.

And guess what? We can all do this. If this sounds like what your are looking for, I’d love to connect and explore this with you.

We’ve all been told that if we want great relationships, we better be prepared to put in a lot of hard work. If we don’t, we’ll “fall out of love”, the spark will die, we’ll grow resentful, distant, etc, etc, etc. Right?

What if great relationships are just not like that? What if an understanding of how we work leads to more connection, joy and fulfillment without all that effort?

This has been my experience. When we know and appreciate where our own experience comes from and that others work in the same way, we find it’s easy to feel loving and connected again.

I love coaching couples who want more than what they have. I also work with individuals to improve relationships with family members, friends, bosses, co-workers, and just other people in general. If you would like more ease and closeness in your relationships, let’s talk.

KAP is a highly effective and rapid acting treatment for individuals who have tried other treatment modalities and have received little or no relief from them. I am glad to be able to offer KAP to individuals in the comfort of my office. You can read more about KAP here.