I provide general mental health therapy, sex therapy & workshops/group therapy.
See below for the more specific areas of focus for my practice currently:
RELATIONSHIP COUNSELING:
- Healthy communication and conflict management
- Rebuilding lost connection
- Neurodiverse partners
- Healing from resentment or broken trust
- Determining relationship compatibility vs complementarity
INDIVIDUAL COUNSELING:
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Adult ADHD or ADD
- Adjustment to Change/Stress Management
- Relationship Stress: trauma, dating/being single, partnering & committing, difficulty setting & communicating boundaries or managing conflict, and coping with loneliness, relationship endings, or non-monogamy
- Emotional Distress: being empathic, highly sensitive, low self-esteem, fear of abandonment or intimacy, codependency, stuck in fight/flight, people pleasing, gifted, or other-abled
SEX THERAPY:
- Sexual pain disorders
- Managing the distress from chronic health/pain that impacts sex
- Low desire either in self or partnership
- Anxiety or emotional blocks related to sexual health or identity
- Sexual self-esteem and communication skills
Sex therapy is guided by the PLISSIT model: permission, limited information, specific suggestions, and when appropriate intensive therapy. Please note that the sex therapy in my practice is “talk therapy” only in alignment with the ethical guidelines from my professional association: AASECT