We can look at where patterns began, how they affect your life today, and what you would like to do differently—while recognizing that not everything needs to be treated as something wrong with you.
I offer individual therapy for adults, teenagers, and children generally age 10 and older. Younger children may occasionally be considered after an initial consultation. I also offer parent consultation focused on behavior management, emotional regulation, routines, and family support.
Many adults come to therapy knowing what they believe they “should” be doing. The difficulty is turning that knowledge into action while managing work, relationships, responsibilities, emotions, and the pressure to keep up.
You may be:
You do not have to arrive with a clear diagnosis or treatment plan. We can begin with what is most difficult now and build a clearer understanding together.
Children and teenagers do not always have the language to explain why they feel anxious, sad, angry, overwhelmed, or shut down. Their distress may appear as avoidance, emotional outbursts, school difficulties, irritability, conflict, loss of motivation, or changes in confidence and behavior.
My goal is to understand what a behavior may be communicating while also helping the young person develop emotional awareness, accountability, coping skills, communication, and confidence.
Sessions are adapted to age and preference. Conversation may be combined with structured activities, skills practice, visual tools, or play-based observation when clinically useful.
The right balance depends on the child’s age, preferences, treatment goals, safety, and the kind of service being provided.
I generally give the child a meaningful voice in deciding whether a session will be individual or include a parent or caregiver. Appropriate privacy can help therapy feel like a space that belongs to the child rather than another place where adults discuss what they are doing wrong.
Periodic caregiver check-ins, parent education, and occasional joint sessions can help changes continue outside the therapy room.
Parent consultation may be useful when emotional reactions, ADHD symptoms, routines, school concerns, or behavior create recurring conflict at home.
Behavior-management sessions are often joint sessions with the child and parent. Parent-only appointments may also be used when practical and clinically appropriate.
ADHD may affect the ability to start, sequence, remember, prioritize, estimate time, shift attention, regulate emotions, and persist when a task is frustrating or unrewarding.
The goal is not a perfect system. It is to find approaches that are sustainable enough to improve everyday functioning.
Anxiety and depression may occur on their own or alongside ADHD, stress, trauma, grief, identity concerns, and relationship difficulties.
Some clients want concrete skills and exercises. Others need time to process experiences, relationships, losses, and internal conflicts. Many benefit from both.
As a member of the LGBTQ+ community, I am honored to work with LGBTQ+ clients.
Therapy may include concerns directly related to sexuality or gender, but it does not have to. LGBTQ+ clients also seek therapy for ADHD, anxiety, depression, work, grief, parenting, relationships, burnout, family dynamics, and all of the other concerns that bring people to counseling.
You should not have to educate your therapist about the basic legitimacy of your identity before you can begin discussing the rest of your life.
The name of a therapy model matters less than whether it helps you understand yourself, function more effectively, and move toward the life and relationships you want.
I sometimes offer a worksheet, reflection prompt, coping skill, or small experiment to continue the work between sessions. These are always collaborative and optional.
Not having the time, energy, or capacity to complete something is not a failure. It may help us understand what support is missing, whether the task was realistic, or whether we need a different approach.
Begin with what is difficult now. We can decide together what kind of support is likely to be useful.