How I help
adult clients & couples move forward from being stuck in unhelpful patterns
I work collaboratively with you to address your specific needs and goals, focusing on your strengths to help you grow. My client-centered approach is non-judgmental, supportive, and compassionate. Therapeutically, I create a safe and engaging environment in which healing can occur.
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Adaptive (helpful) coping involves being open-minded, discovering creative solutions, and swiftly adjusting one's behavior, thoughts, or emotions to align with new information and experiences. Opting for adaptive behavior enables you to navigate your environment with greater success and less conflict with others. It assists in breaking free from rigid, unhelpful patterns and avoidance behaviors.
This capacity allows us to flexibly respond to new demands, situations, or challenges.
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However, maladaptive (unhelpful) coping strategies are likely to be utilized if you've experienced overwhelming stressors, trauma, or unhealthy adult relationships. Experiences of abuse, neglect, or repeated emotional invalidation in childhood can often lead to persistent unhelpful coping patterns that carry into our adult relationships. These coping strategies may offer temporary relief but fail to solve the underlying problem. A person relying on maladaptive coping might engage in denial, self-criticism, perfectionism, passivity, and avoidance.
Navigate life’s ups and downs more effectively. Help yourself thrive even in challenging situations.
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Setbacks are inevitable in life—no one is immune—but the key lies in learning to bounce back from uncertainty, adversity, and trauma. Through our collaboration, you can gain practical tools to build a more resilient self.​​​​​
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“Resilience is how you not just survive stress, but how you grow from it... Some people develop post-traumatic stress disorder; some people develop post-traumatic growth. So they actually become better, more receiving, wiser after the stress.” Dr. Dilip Jeste
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