Family Counseling:

A family goes through many transitions: newly married; a family with a newborn or children of various ages; divorce or remarrying; single parenthood; young adults returning home; mental illness; career changes; empty-nesters; retirement; chronic illness; adult caregivers of their parents; grieving the loss of a loved one. We will walk through those changes together and make the adjustment smooth and healthy.

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• Pre-Marital Counseling: Marriage starts with a promise. Developing and maintaining a healthy, long-term marriage depends on constant nourishment of the relationship and deeper understanding of your partner’s needs and character. Educating clients on how to place partner first, be patient, kind and respectful even in times of conflict. Together we explore relationship strengths and deficiencies. We learn about Assertiveness, Active Listening, Stress and Conflict Management, Financial Planning and Budgeting, Defining Goals and learn the impact Family of Origin have on the relationship. We learn how to maintains the love and peace at home.

• Couples Counseling: Deep friendship is essential for healthy marriage. Love, kindness, passion, sensitivity, compromise, sacrifice and desire to serve each other is what brings couples together and maintains their loving relationship. Ability to manage conflicts, and have a shared purpose in life are possible with careful planning, and desire to place each other first. Love is important but in order to maintain it a couple must learn how to express it.

• Narcissistic Cycle of Abuse: Stages and Healing from the Trauma  Living trapped in never ending nightmare of shift-blaming, gaslighting, lies, manipulation, poor communication, cheating, withholding affection, controlling behaviors, violating boundaries and disrespect, insults, all leaving you to question yourself and your reality. Learning about the symptoms and patterns of this type of cycle of abuse will lead to ability to disengage and discontinue living in it. The journey is painful but Healing is possible. With proper knowledge you can be empowered and be in charge of your life again.

• Parenting / Co-Parenting / Blended Families: I use brief, solution-oriented, and supportive intervention when approaching divorcing families. I assist them transition from their spousal relationship to a co-parenting relationship and divorce partnership.  I educate and prepare clients for the successful negotiation of a parenting plan. My hope for divorcing parents is that they will maintain a loving environment for their children. I educate and encourage parents to put the children's needs before their own agenda and shift their focus away from adult issues, to their children's developmental needs instead.

• Relationship Struggles/ Communication Barriers/ Conflict Resolutions/ Intimacy Challenges/ Rebuilding Trust /Domestic Violence/ Divorce: A marriage once filled with love and dreams is now constant source of tension. Criticism, blaming, stubbornness, passive aggressive responses, and defensiveness are just a few of our deficiencies that have the power to creep into a loving relationship and built walls of resentment and distrust. When not addressed and healed, these feelings will erode intimacy and desire to love. Divorce Coaching is a supportive process that helps reduce the emotional intensity between partners and helps them separate their emotions from legal and practical issues.

• Life Transitions and Aging/ Grief and Loss/ Chronic Illness: Pain has different faces but the heavy feeling of loss and abandonment that comes with the end of a relationship is powerful and life changing. Divorce, chronic illness, empty nest or loss of a loved one brings deep emotional pain that often becomes a driving force for altering behaviors of daily routines. This pain is manageable with right coping skills and new mindset of the one grieving.

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Group Therapy:

Narcissistic Cycle of Abuse and Healing 

( 5 members in a group limited, two different sessions available due to client’s work schedule)

8 weeks course of 90 minutes weekly sessions on learning about Narcissistic personality Disorder, The Cycle of Abuse and process of victimization. and how to heal from it. The class includes a Module on Creating Healthy Boundaries and Healthier Self-Loving You!​, so you could continue a life of being able to give and receive love in a meaningful way, that creates a lasting bond and peace in your relationship. The class material and modules are available for individual sessions when client does not want to participate in a group. 

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Emotional Support Animal Letter

Our many needs and struggles are often easy to comfort with a simple snuggle. It helps alleviate feelings of depression and anxiety caused by life stressors. I am able to assess the mental needs and establish a cause for emotional support animal. The assessment and letter process require a commitment of minimum three visits.