Services
About My Clients
My work focuses on helping my individual, couple, and family clients generate understanding and big-picture perspectives while encouraging each person to live congruently with their true self. I specialize in helping teens and their families. Adolescence can be a turbulent time where young individuals struggle to balance their need for support with their desire to be independent. I also work with anyone wanting to reprocess of traumatic events via EMDR.
My Background and Approach
Life can be challenging and painful, and we all face uncertainties, disappointments, conflicts, heartbreaks, losses, traumas, and existential questions. At Lighter Counseling, I offer a safe, non-judgmental space where you can openly express your thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) emphasizes the importance of being present, working with reality, and letting personal values guide behavior. Together, we'll explore your anxiety, depression, anger, grief, trauma, and self-doubt and work collaboratively to build skills to help you accept the realities of life, find joy in the present, identify how you want to show up in the world, and choose behaviors that reflect the real you.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe the client is the expert on themselves, and it the the job of the therapist to honor that while providing an unbiased reflection of the reality of the client's world. I believe that every one of us has the same value and the same right to take space in this world, no matter who we are and no matter what we feel or believe.