"Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen."
Therapy Services
Couple's Counseling
How can Couples/Marriage Counseling help?
Experience Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) which is a research based (30+ years) therapy that consistently shows high success rates (75% sound good?) and the amazing thing is that significant progress continues after therapy. We are pro marriage therapist's because happy, healthy marriages mean happy, healthy families and communities.
Most couples wait on average six years before they reach out for help and 37% of couples who divorce never get counseling.
Relationship challenges are the result of unconscious patterns each partner brings to the relationship to get their needs met. I provide a safe, non-judgmental container where we can turn painful patterns into strong, satisfying, secure connection.
Are you ready to explore what is motivating your perceptions, behaviors, and emotions?
Give us a call if you are experiencing any of the following:
- Feeling unloved, unhappy or disconnected
- Can’t get on the same page or have the same fight over and over again
- Don’t feel heard, understood or appreciated
- Having power struggles
- Too much conflict
- Little or no affection, intimacy or sex
- No trust
- Want a deeper, sweeter connection
- Parenting challenges
Individual Therapy
How can Individual Counseling help?
- Heal the underlying causes and conditions of depression, anxiety and anger.
- You develop more satisfying, fulfilling relationships.
- Break the cycle of pain and heal trauma by restoring safety and empowerment.
- You restore resiliency leaving you feeling more balanced and whole.
- Enhance your coping strategies enabling you to cope more effectively with all of life’s transitions and challenges.
- Increase your self-esteem.
- You navigate the challenges of addiction in yourself or loved ones.
- Help you clarify your values, morals, beliefs…the deepest essence of your Self.
I provide safe, secure support and guidance on your journey of healing. Stand on my shoulders and use my thirty years of study into empathy, compassion, vulnerability, authenticity, wisdom, spirituality, healing and recovery.
Spiritual Direction
What is Spiritual Direction?
Spiritual Direction is a one-to-one conversation in which one person helps another reflect on and deepen his or her connection with God. It is about listening to people’s stories and listening for the breakthrough presence of God in the midst of ordinary life. A Spiritual Director helps you see how God is showing up in your life and helps you integrate your experiences of God and your understanding of God. A Spiritual Director may also educate and illuminate on who God is. A Spiritual Director will support and encourage you to attend to and respond to God. “Spiritual growth happens as we gain confidence in God’s love for us, become more aware of God’s holiness and call, and become freer to be honest about our responses and the true state of our inner life.” (Sue Pickering, “Spiritual Direction”)
Why should we listen to God?
- We can’t have a relationship with God if we aren’t able to listen and converse with Him.
- God tells us to listen to him. “This is my Son, the Beloved; with him I am well pleased; listen to him!” (Matthew 17:5)
- We often don’t know what is best for us, but God does.
- Listening helps us align with God and enter His story.
- We are able to help others when we listen to the promptings of the Holy Spirit.
- It keeps us out of trouble!
- We learn about ourselves and are encouraged, supported and guided to develop our full potential and the fruit of the Spirit will grow in our lives.
“Christ has no body but yours, no hands, no feel on earth but yours Yours are the eyes with which he looks compassion on this world, Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good, Yours are the hands, with which he blesses all the world. Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, yours are the eyes, you are his body Christ has no body now on earth but yours.” -Teresa of Avila
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
“When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary.”
– Fred Rogers
"A great marriage is not when the perfect couple comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences."
"A strong marriage requires two people who choose to love each other even on the days they struggle to like each other."
