Mental Health Services
Therapy or Coaching
Therapy can often sound challenging and there’s certainly a lot of mental baggage brought along when the word comes up. As such, coaching has often become the go-to place for people wanting to receive help in their lives. In my own practice, I simply don’t see much of a difference between them.
What we are all interested in is making improvements in our lives and learning to live more openly, authentically, and with less suffering. Insurance companies require particular language around diagnosis and what is prescribed treatment. Since I don’t take insurance, any language concerning diagnosis becomes about creating windows to self-exploration rather than rigid labels to limit yourself by.
I am not a guru, nor do I believe therapy requires years to “achieve” results. My goal is to help build the skills for you to address the particular struggles within your own life.
What You Receive
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Authentic, open, personalized attention
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Setting clear goals and a path to achieve them
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Dedication to your individual Values and Stories
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A safe space to work on skills related to communication and trauma.
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Values-based intervention
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Online telehealth for flexibility in scheduling
Areas of Expertise
Life Meaning and Purpose
Emotional Instability
Religious Trauma
Relationship Difficulties
Moral Injury and PTSD
Identity Struggles
About Therapy
We develop our personal experiences, project meaning, construct our stories and manifest our behavior within the relational web of our lives.
That relational web is perceived through the lenses of our various identities or perspectives. Think of them as the “hats” you wear at work, with your friends, and at home. All of these are you and yet the “real you” feels different because it is the self looking through all these different lenses or perspectives. The possible behaviors you could do, the form your stories take, and the type of social connections you build are all dependent upon which perspective we’re using.
Stagnation or feeling trapped can manifest in our emotional, behavioral and thinking lives. All too often the self-destructive effects of shame and doubt erupt when feeling trapped happens, making growth and personal expansion seem impossible.
To better pursue and fulfill your life goals begings with an exploration of what you care about, your Values. Through the skills we explore, based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), we move from Values to exploring the Narratives or Stories of your life, and open the space for new Behavior to emerge.
Getting Started is Easy
Free 20 Min Chat
We’ll identify what you want to work on and discuss how I might be able to help.
Book Appointment
Appointments and paperwork all online through Simple Practice with personalized client portal.
1st Session!
You’ll starting looking at your Values and move forward with concrete behavior.
Relational – ACT
Values
“Values are the cognitive manifestation of an emotional state. No feeling exists unattached from a particular situation or object (person, place, or thing). This is because feelings are an initial evaluative tool. They’re an immediate way for us to start the path of our response to a situation or object. The way we describe our relationship between an emotion and what is being evaluated is through the use of a Value.”
Behavior
“Behavior is our humanity interacting within the relational reality in which we all reside. Existing within that established social space, it not so much creates a new experience as discovers the potential residing within each situational context. This is why we cannot simply do anything we want, whenever we want, our behavior must manifest within the layered context of each personal Vision and social possibility.”
Personal Narrative
“Narrative is a broad term that holds the notions of perspective, structure and intentionality. It is the process through which we decide what is important to us among the vast information in our experiences, organize our responses and direct the attention of others to the self-image we’ve constructed.”