PHILOSOPHY and APPROACH

I assist clients by empowering and encouraging them to build on their strengths as well as possibilities in order to move to a place of hope, healing, and wholeness.  I work with adults, couples and adolescents on relationship issues and creating mental/emotional wellness.  Therapy related to relationship includes strengthening bi-cultural marriage and family, building healthy relationships, pre-marital preparation, and parenting.  Mental/emotional wellness deals with issues such as anxiety, depression, self-esteem, personal development, and recovery from trauma.

In therapy sessions, I integrate existential, solution-focused, cognitive-behavioral, and dialectic behavioral models.  I believe that sustainable therapy and spiritual growth often go hand in hand.  When working with adolescents, play therapy and art therapy are incorporated as necessary.  As a trained mediator, I will use conflict management techniques when appropriate.