I specialize in emotional ease and the healing of issues that impact the quality of our lives. With over 25 years of clinical experience, I support clients to access their inner resources and strengthen coping skills so they can design the life they seek. My work focuses on turning emotions into wisdom (emotion regulation), managing stress (distress tolerance), and teaching others how to treat us (interpersonal effectiveness). These skills can help us deepen the meaningful connections with loved ones and improve the overall quality of our lives. Fight, flight, freeze, or finesse? As children, we often resorted to fight, flight, or freeze patterns. As adults, these patterns still show up in myriad ways such as sarcasm (fight), inability to focus (flight), and panic attacks (freezing). Building a life worth living and having healthy relationships requires that we turn those patterns into finesse. If you are challenged by: anxiety, depression, trauma, anger issues, self-esteem issues, life transitions, loneliness, work or peer conflict, grief/loss, self-harm, parenting issues, family of origin issues, or habitual negativity, I would be delighted to help you learn more effective coping skills to build a life worth living.
Qualifications: | University of Nebraska at Omaha |
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Academic Suffixes: | LPC, CDBT |
Expertise: | Anxiety, Borderline Personality, Coping Skills, Depression, Other, Other, Stress, Suicidal Ideation, Trauma and PTSD |