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I am a Social Work Therapist with 14+ years of experience. This is in addition to 12+ years of career, academic and mental health counselling with young adults (during my years of service as a tertiary-level educator).
My educational background has been shaped by culturally diverse environments. This comprised a rural Michigan university (Andrews) for the Master of Social Work degree. After years of MSW/LMSW service, a terminal degree – Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), was achieved at another university (Yeshiva) in the heart of urban America – New York City.
I offer compassionate, confidential, custom-tailored therapy to individuals across the lifespan, as well as, couples, families and groups.
Prior therapeutic experience includes service to clients in diverse levels of care, such as, community/home care, assisted living, hospital, psych-ICU, online, and in-office outpatient care. While providing therapy to these clients, I employed long-term supportive therapy, shorter-term solution-focused therapy, & focused therapy along with cognitive behavioural interventions for a wide range of concerns.
These include mood challenges of depression and anxiety, new parental challenges/post-partum depression, bipolar d/o, eating d/o, bereavement/loss, domestic violence, pre-marital/couples/marriage/family therapy, addictions, intrapersonal awareness therapy, interpersonal & inter-generational issues, youth-in-crisis, PTSD, foster care parents therapy/training, Alzheimer’s Dementia support, and end-of-life issues.
I have also worked with diverse ‘transition’/adjustment disorder issues, e.g. college freshmen/career guidance/choice of major-personality congruity; post-divorce; post-retirement; career transitions; culture shock, and the likes.
I believe in holistic approaches to health and encourage a balance of physical, spiritual, medical, and therapeutic interventions.
Entering therapy is often the first step in a significant, personal journey. Thus, you will find me to be a thoughtful, compassionate and confidential professional who empowers each person as the expert in their life while encouraging them to grow, glow, and go (learn/practice new ways of being).
My current approach is interactive and warm, primarily from a strengths-based psychodynamic perspective with behavioural interventions drawing from CBT. I use a relational style to help you clarify the root of struggles, identify barriers, and create pathways to move forward.
We exist in an extremely dynamic world so I look forward to empowering you with tools to ‘shift gears’ as needed, and to embrace the uncertainty change brings.
You deserve to live your very best possible life.