Knowing whom you are working with is important. I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with eighteen years experience working with adults, children, and adolescents in an office, home based and school environment. Prior to becoming a therapist, I worked in the fields of business/finance and education. I bring the life experience and wisdom of working in these other professions to my therapeutic work with clients.

My strongest asset is my core integrity. If after consultation, my clients need a different type of therapy or services, I am quick to refer through my extensive networking system to other more appropriate professionals. I am consistently reading, attending conferences and work shops and listening to my clients to insure that I provide the most up to date recommendations based on research in the field of mental and physical health and educational issues. My goal is for clients to accomplish success with the least amount of time and money.

In my practice I use a variety of approaches to ensure success:

• Multi-systemic Approach – This incorporates visits to schools or day care centers as well as collaboration with and referral to educators, psychiatrists and other physicians, neuro-psychologists, psychologists, nutritionists, speech-language pathologists, occupational and physical therapists, and professionals skilled in specialized therapies (e.g., neuro-biofeedback, non-directive play therapy). This is used with complicated child/family issues when a more traditional in office model has not been successful or at the request of the client.
• Individual Counseling – Provide one-on-one therapy focusing on individual issues. This is for children (as young as three, determined by development up to age eighteen), adolescents and adults.
• Family Counseling – This includes couples as well as dyads, or triads or the entire family for the purpose of identifying a family’s goals and developing a plan to achieve those goals.
• Children’s Social Skills Group – Provide a structure of interactive play between children grouped together appropriately to achieve the goals of the child and parent. (For more information refer to the Social Skills Group page). Groups are offered for children from ages four to seventeen.

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