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 international marriages and families, 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, strength-based and dialectic behavioral models.  I believe that spiritual growth and sustainable changes often go hand in hand.  Sometimes, art therapy is incorporated in session if it helps with treatment.  As a certified professional mediator, I will use conflict management techniques as appropriate.