Anxiety
Most of us experience some form of anxiety in the course of day-to-day living. The cause of anxiety is not fully understood; however, traumatic life events appear to trigger anxiety disorders in people who are already prone to anxiety...
Grief Counseling
Grief Counseling is a very personal conversation. In this conversation, a special relationship is created to support you – the grieving person – as you reconstruct your life and your experiences with the person or the part of your life that you have lost...
Alcohol and Drug Addiction
Alcohol and drug addiction is a chronic disease that worsens over time and causes physical health to degenerate. The effects range from chronic physical diseases that degrade internal organ functioning to losses in mental, cognitive and emotional health, that impair judgment and affect a person’s capacity to function...
Trauma and PTSD
Trauma comes in many often unpredictable forms and is seen in events where your own life or the life of another is endangered and put at risk. Trauma can result from violent crimes, combat experiences, major motor vehicle accidents, mass shootings, natural disasters...
Borderline Personality Disorder
Borderline Personality Disorder is a crippling and disabling psychiatric condition that comes from a persistent and negative pattern of thoughts, feelings and behaviors, which then lead to negative inner feelings and negative self-defeating behaviors...
Anger Issues
Uncontrolled and inappropriately expressed anger is a major problem in relationships and in families. Anger and domestic violence is present when an abuser repeatedly and unpredictably uses intimidation and threats of physical force to control others. These threats often lead to physical assaults...
Areas of Expertise
Couples Work
The decision to marry is arguably the most important decision that two people will ever make. That decision will affect their own lives individually and it will determine the course of their lives together as a couple.
Most couples marry after a pattern of experiences: they meet; they experience physical attraction and sexual arousal; they value similarities and differences in each other; they discover a like-mindedness in how they view the world; they enjoy spending time together and feel special and important in each other’s company; and they find safety and a shared sense of meaning especially in the hope of fulfilling individual and collective dreams.
