Areas of Focus
Depression, anxiety or just plain blah
Do you feel like you should be happier than you are? Are you feeling stuck or unmotivated? Does every decision feel overwhelming to you? Feeling lonely or isolated? In these modern and disconnected times it’s not uncommon to feel… just not right even in the absence of a major life stressor. Many people enter therapy when it’s hard to even put a finger on what’s wrong but you know you haven’t been feeling right.
New or Experienced Parents
Parenting: feeling completely responsible for a new and vulnerable being while also having no control over some many elements. Parenting can be the most rewarding while at the same time, the most challenging venture many adults experience, especially in those early years. It can be challenging to hold onto a sense of self and identity while being subsumed in the care needs of a child. Parenting can bring up unresolved issues from your past and put strain on relations with your partner. Parenting a child with special learning or medical needs can create additional stress.
Cancer
Newly diagnosed with cancer and feeling overwhelmed? Recently out of treatment but don’t quite feel like celebrating? Grappling with quality of life or end of life concerns?
Chronic Pain
Chronic Pain conditions like fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, back pain, sickle cell anemia or neuropathic pain can greatly limit and impact daily activities and quality of life and have a significant emotional component. Part of the healing work includes acceptance of this new, undesirable reality and then learning new skills to change how you relate to your pain condition to improve coping and function.
Grief and Loss
Traditionally, we think of grief as the reaction to the death of a loved one. I understand grief more broadly to also include the loss of an opportunity, a relationship, an imagined future or a part of ourselves. Grief is a normal process in reaction to a loss, yet it is excruciatingly painful and can feel very isolating. Our society doesn’t always allow adequate time and space to process grief and this mismatch of ones experience and ones environment can leave people feeling unmoored.
