My clients often struggle with:

➡ Trouble maintaining personal, professional, or social relationships

➡ Finding meaningful connection in their relationships

➡ Overwhelming feelings of stress or emotional numbness

➡ Keeping it together on the outside, but feeling exhausted on the inside

➡ Struggling to find a healthy balance or routine in life

➡ A sense of losing control in their life circumstances

➡ Using substances to cope with frustrations and disappointments

➡ Feeling confused by their relationship challenges

I offer in person therapy for adults and online therapy for adults across Florida. I work with clients navigating relationship challenges, anxiety, perfectionism, lack of connection, conflict in relationships, and feeling stuck in problems. Therapy with me is designed for people who want direct, honest feedback with practical guidance on how to move forward with their most difficult relationship issues.

I only work with adults who are located in the state of Florida at the time of service.

I have offices located in Tampa, FL and Winter Haven, FL. We can also meet virtually online anywhere in the State of Florida. Due to license restrictions, I am not able to offer services to anyone who is not located in Florida.

If you are an out-of-state resident interested in services, I can offer counseling services for you but only while you are located in Florida.

There are many benefits to counseling and each client usually has their own agenda of what they want from counseling. Clients typically find that counselors can be a tremendous asset to increasing personal growth, improving interpersonal relationships, family concerns, relationship troubles, and the daily hassles of life.

Clients usually seek counseling for encouragement, problem-solving skills, support, and healthy coping strategies while struggling with things like anxiety, depression, grief, relationship troubles, addiction, unresolved childhood issues, and stress management. 

Clients often get a fresh perspective on difficult problems they’ve tried to solve on their own.

Some of the benefits available from counseling include:

Learning new ways to cope with stress and anxiety

​Better understanding yourself and your goals and values

Improving your self-esteem 

​Boosting self-confidence

​Discovering new ways to solve problems

​Developing skills for improving communication and listening

​Transforming anger, grief, depression, and other emotional pressures

Dissolving old behavior patterns and developing new ones

The difference is between someone who can do something, and someone who has the training and experience to do that same thing professionally. A mental health professional can help you approach your situation in a new way– teach you new skills, gain different perspectives, listen to you without judgment or expectations, and help you listen to yourself. Furthermore, therapy is completely confidential. You won’t have to worry about others “knowing my business.” Lastly, if your situation provokes a great deal of negative emotion, if you’ve been confiding in a friend or family member, there is the risk that once you are feeling better you could start avoiding that person so you aren’t reminded of this difficult time in your life.

Unfortunately, this is not possible to say in a general FAQ page. I've worked with people for a couple months and others for 3 years. In our first session, we will discuss how often we should meet. That frequency will change over time. In the beginning of our work, I recommend weekly sessions. To get the most out of your therapy and make lasting changes, I strongly recommend we meet weekly for a minimum of 6 months.

If you'd like to meet more often than once a week, we can also arrange that. We will review your treatment plan and progress periodically. Once you've begun to experience gains in your treatment goals, we will review your plan and meet less frequently. This allows for more practice time of your new skills between sessions.

Not at all! People who ask for help know when they need it and have the ability to reach out. Everyone needs help now and then. You already have some strengths that you’ve used before, that for whatever reason isn’t working right now.

Perhaps this problem feels overwhelming and is making it difficult to access your past strengths. In our work together, I’ll help you identify what those strengths are and how to implement them again in what is happening now.

Medication is a great tool for folks who just can't get their symptoms under control on their own. However, medication alone cannot solve all issues because it only treats symptoms. Our work together is designed to explore the root of the issue, dig deep into your behavior and teach strategies that can help you accomplish your personal and/or relational goals. The benefit you get from therapy can be similar to medication, depending on how well you use the process and put into practice what you learn.

If you are concerned about your relationship we would initially work with both of you together. After this work, if one of you would like to continue in individual sessions, she could work with only one of you. It is not helpful to move from individual into couple’s work with the same therapist because of potential trust issues. These instances are referred out to another therapist.

However, individual sessions are often done as part of couples counseling to address the issues discovered in couples sessions when needed. These are different than receiving psychotherapy with a therapist for individual mental health treatment.