What I offer you: Companionship through a hard time, Social/emotional skills, Insights that can help change thoughts and feelings. How do I do this? With online counseling/psychotherapy: Actively listening to you, Reviewing events in your life, Helping you learn new ways to address situations. Techniques I use: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy - mindfully acting from values, Internal Family Systems - harmonious, non-judgmental internal conversations, Narrative Therapy - changing your stories in order to move forward, Trauma Informed Therapy - changing the relationship with your traumas.
I have experience working with a range of emotional and psychological issues, from adolescent and parent dilemmas to relationship difficulties. I have worked with people facing severe mental illness, serious health issues, trauma, and substance use, incarcerated young men, and transsexual and gender non-binary adults.
I've successfully used music teaching to initiate a therapeutic relationship with adolescents and young adults, and I have a special interest in working with technical professionals; my first 20-year career was in computer science.