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9221 SW Barbur Blvd.
Portland, Oregon 97219
(503) 806-2495
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I work with clients on a short-term model, identifying strengths and enhancing coping skills. I also do long-term insight-oriented work; identifying patterns of feelings, thoughts, and behaviors which reflect unconscious conflict and create barriers in relationships with oneself and others. Symptoms of anxiety and depression are often what prompt people to enter therapy. Some people want to learn tools and behaviors to alleviate symptomology; while others continue with therapy, after symptom reduction, and explore internal themes from their family-of-origin and how they are impacting their relationships today. I believe change occurs through the therapeutic relationship. I specialize in working with people on: anxiety and critical inner-dialogue; codependency issues; reactivity in personal relationships; depression; individuals and families in recovery from addiction; parenting issues; children; and people experiencing developmental and life transitions. Using a strength-based model, I help people identify and enhance their inate capabilities. From my broad base of clinical experience, I tailor an individual approach that best matches each client's needs. As a 'guide on the side', recognizing each person as an expert on their own lives, I help people grieve old losses, accept 'what is', while imagining and creating new possibilities.

My Specialties
Anxiety
Addiction
Parenting
ADHD
Divorce
Learning Disabilities
Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD)
Spirituality
Career Counseling
Depression
Grief
Life Coaching
Relationship Issues
Substance Abuse
Codependency, Families of Addicts
Codependency
Families of Addicts