I provide interactive tools to help you resolve personal struggles that commonly manifest as anxiety, panic, confusion, fear, depression, worry or relationship problems. By accompanying you in conversation about your problems, strengths, achievements and values; or through play, drawing or dream recall I help you identify the relationship between your feelings and needs. Understanding this relationship is vital for resolving problems with peaceful and direct communication and cultivates self-compassion. My aim is to provide a therapeutic process that is supportive, relieving, exciting, appropriately challenging, and rewarding. I offer you - the client of any age, the choice of talk, play or expressive art mediums to share your concerns. I work with you to understand your values and address your goals. While play is traditionally attributed to the realm of children - it can be applied at any age. The founder of NVC said "Every human behavior is a person's attempt to meet a need". By applying this principle we recognize that each of us is doing our best with the tools, skills and habits we've adopted. Trusting ourselves in this way is one of the first steps toward making change because it shifts our attention toward curiosity and away from criticism.
Qualifications: | Northern Vermont University |
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Expertise: | Other, Anxiety, Child or Adolescent, Coping Skills, Depression, Emotional Disturbance, Family Conflict, Grief, Other, Life Transitions, Parenting, Peer Relationships, Relationship Issues, School Issues, Self Esteem, Sleep or Insomnia, Spirituality, Stress, Women |