Services

People enter therapy because they are in pain and recognize the need to change. Perhaps their relationships suffer, their careers are unsatisfying, or they are generally unable to be present for their lives and their family. As a culture, we have developed all manner of ways to cope: drugs, alcohol, behavioral addictions, isolation, and generally avoiding real life. These can lead to depression, anxiety, and more despair, and left untreated, can destroy a life.

I work with individuals, couples, adolescents, and families, in a compassionate and safe setting where people feel safe enough to explore how to find relief from their suffering and embrace their lives more fully, with honesty and courage.

Individual Therapy:

People bring a number of concerns into the room, including addiction. You will feel supported, heard, and respected, and together we’ll help find your truth, as you learn to live authentically, with meaning, and purpose. If addicted, we will develop an individualized recovery program that considers your particular availability and circumstances.

Couples and Families:  

Living with a person that drinks or uses drugs can feel hopeless, helpless, even “crazy.” It is simply too great a burden to carry alone and I encourage couples to seek help together. Supporting and strengthening any member of this couple or family strengthens both, and is associated with far better outcomes.

I also work with couples that have other challenges, not related to substance abuse or addiction.

Family Support Group:

Families are often the silent and misunderstood casualties of the disease. Living with addiction can leave one isolated, confused, even guilty and ashamed. Many for instance still blame the parent’s for the addiction of a child, or the husband for the drinking of a partner. You are not alone. It is not your fault. But there are things you can do to help both the addict and yourself. Come share these strategies in a supportive, non-judgmental gathering, where you will be free to express the pain of the family, and the joys of recovery. You reclaim your strength, perspective, and calm, all casualties for the families of addicted individuals.

Relapse Prevention Group:  

For many, the addition of a support group can help people deepen or even jump-start their recovery and helps potentiate gains made in individual therapy. I offer this group twice weekly which is co-lead by a very skillful and compassionate facilitator, Michelle Pair, LMFT. She brings over 18 years invaluable experience to this difficult field, in both research and direct service. We bring an 9 year collaboration to our patients.

We speak publicly and more recently have been asked to talk about the implications of the burgeoning opioid - benzodiazapam crisis that has left no demographic unscathed, nationwide.

Grief Work:  

I offer support for people at any stage of their grieving process. The death of a parent, child, friend or family member can be profound. This loss can be either “devastating,” or, an unavoidable aspect of living that if integrated properly, can add richness and depth to life itself. I will help you move through grief in a way that deepens and honors memory and continued life.

Activity Group:

I also offer an activity group, especially for our younger clients, to teach and experience 'sober fun' in an atmosphere that is instructive, engaging, and therapeutic.