Areas of Specialization
Adoption
Parenting
Grief
Adoption
I specialize in working with all members of the adoption triad; adoptees, birth and adoptive parents. If you're looking for a therapist who understands adoption, surviving foster care, boarding school, and the complications of being separated from first families, birth nations, and culture of origin - I can help. If you’re a birth parent navigating life after relinquishment; if you’re an adoptive parent trying to help your child understand their origin story, I can help.
Parenting
Parenting is hard, and most of us are struggling through it without enough support. Sometimes our past issues resurface in the midst of parenting, creating confusion and causing us to react in ways that conflict with our true values. No matter where you are in your parenting journey - I can help you ease the stress of this 24/7 job. Together we can strategize new ways to strengthen your patience and create new ways to cope with the worries that are keeping you up at night.
Grief and Loss
Grief is our natural response to losing someone or something meaningful. Everyone has thier own unique way of coping with loss. There is no ‘right’ way and no ‘right amount of time’ to grieve. Sometimes if we had a complicated relationship with someone, their death can lead to complicated grief and the acute pain of loss can linger and keep us from engaging in life. If you feel your grief is holding you back from living your life, or you want to understand the grief you’re feeling, I can help.