I provide psychotherapy for couples, families, children, and adults from diverse backgrounds. I help to keep the peace at home, by enhancing intimacy, expressing emotions, improving communication skills, decreasing fighting, and bridging differences in personalities and habits, such as ways of managing finances, and finding time to enjoy each other. I help my clients to navigate normal life changes and stresses such as marriage and parenthood, divorce, step- and blended family changes, and recovering from infidelity. I help to address school and academic problems, "stinking thinking", child behavior problems, common (and uncommon) disorders, such as depression, anxiety, and substance abuse.
I am a cognitive-behavioral and systems-oriented therapist. My treatment highlights the causes and consequences of behavior, and the role each person plays within a larger family system. I believe in evidence-based treatment, so I not only use the treatments that are known to work, but also tailor them to you!
I have a strong multicultural focus. I work with clients of diverse racial, ethnic, gender, socioeconomic, sexual orientation, and cultural backgrounds. This means that I value and address the larger family context, the environment, and the different values, religious/spiritual beliefs and worldviews that my clients bring to the table.