A Place to Become

  • Grief Counseling

    Grief emerges as our reaction to a significant loss. Yet sometimes the grief process gets stuck for a variety of reasons. Grief counseling may help you to process the painful experience of loss, to learn strategies for living with the loss, and to find new and creative ways to engage life after loss.

    Grief can also show up following many other significant losses, including the loss of a job, loss of an ability or identity, or with a life-limiting diagnosis.

    I agree with Francis Weller who writes that we must treat all grief “as worthy of attention. In fact, it is essential for us to welcome our grief, whatever form it takes. When we do, we open ourselves to our shared experiences in life.” (from The Wild Edge of Sorrow: The Sacred Work of Grief)

  • Spiritually Integrated Therapy and Religious Trauma

    My background working in spiritual care taught me to respect each person’s relationship with what they consider most sacred or meaningful in their lives. This may be a connection with nature, a community formed around a special interest or identity, a religious commitment, or an artistic or creative project. It may even be something more difficult to define, like a guiding force in one’s life. Good therapy often involves integrating your most deeply held commitments, beliefs, and practices with what you desire to change.

    I am also familiar with many of the ways spiritual and religious communities can cause deep and lasting harm. I believe walking one’s spiritual path may involve periodically examining and deconstructing old patterns that keep us captive to oppressive systems and ideas. If you would like to work through spiritual abuse or religious trauma, I would be honored to work with you.

  • Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

    Why do we keep repeating the same patterns, stuck in addictive behaviors, or finding ourselves in the same unsatisfying relationships?

    Psychodynamic psychotherapy helps us better understand ourselves and how we relate to others by looking at present and past relationships, especially our families of origin, so that we can transform how we relate to ourselves and others.

Benefits of Therapy

While engaging in therapy may help relieve painful symptoms such as anxiety or depression, many also come to find an increased capacity for living a rich and meaningful life. Some signs of positive mental health we can work toward include:

  • Greater freedom from compulsive thoughts and behaviors

  • More capacity for loving relationships

  • More meaningful engagement with work and creative projects

  • Increased self-understanding and self-compassion

  • Expanded emotional range - being able to tolerate difficult emotions (e.g., sadness, loneliness, anger) and experience more positive emotions (e.g., joy, contentment)

  • Greater authenticity - living in ways more consistent with who you actually are

  • More connection to what matters most

My rate

My fee for individual therapy is $125 per 50 minute session.

I am not in network with health insurance.

If you are interested in working together and the cost presents a financial hardship, please talk with me so we can discuss an appropriate fee.