Therapy Services

Individual Psychotherapy

Common focus areas include, but are not limited to:

Adult ADD/ADHD
Aging
Anxiety
Adult child/parent relationship challenges
Autism/Asperger's Syndrome
Blended families
Caregiving challenges ("Sandwich Generation")
College mental health
Coming out
Communication style differences
Dating
Depression
Educational challenges (adult)
Fatherhood
Family conflict
Friendship in adulthood
Grief and bereavement
LGBTQIA+ issues
Life transitions
Marital and premarital challenges
Men's issues
Mood disorders
Questioning sexual orientation
Questioning gender identity
Parenting Support
Relationship issues
Self-inquiry
Single parenting
Social communication challenges
Social media and online gaming
Spiritual crisis
Stress and Coping

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Child/Adolescent Psychotherapy & Behavioral Health

Common focus areas include, but are not limited to:

Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD/ADHD)
Anxiety
Autism/Asperger's (ASD)
Educational problems
Executive Functioning challenges
Depression
Experimentation with substance use
Friendships
Gender identity exploration
Grief and bereavement
Inflexibility
Learning differences
Online gaming, social media, and cell phone use
Parenting Counseling
Parent-Child relationship challenges
Peer relationship development
Perspective-taking challenges (hard to see other people's point of view/express empathy when expected)
Questioning sexual orientation
Self-control (managing emotions and behavior)
Separation anxiety
School selection (college, vocational, etc.)
Sibling relationship challenges
Sleep problems
Social anxiety
Social communication challenges
Social skills development

Family Therapy

Common focus areas include, but are not limited to:

Addiction in a family member
Adjustment problems affecting one or more family members
Behavioral problems in children supported by multiple caregivers (e.g., grandparents, au pair, nanny)
Children's adjustment to family structure post-separation or divorce (dual households)
Co-parenting differences between married or divorced parents
Disability in a family member
End-of-life support issues (disagreements over care planning, long-term care, hospice admission)
Family separation due to immigration
Grief and bereavement
Job/career changes; moving
Parent-child relationship problems
Parent-child temperament differences
Parenting style differences
Sibling relationship challenges
Sudden or chronic illness in a family member
Temperament differences between family members

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Couples Counseling

Common focus areas include, but are not limited to:

Addiction problems
Adjustment to new blended family
Changes in couple/marital relationship
Challenges with in-law relationships
Clashes in family cultural expression
Communication style differences
Contemplating separation or divorce.
Decision-making support
Differences in parenting styles
Health issues
Interfaith relationships
Infidelity
Interpersonal conflict
Life changes/transitions
Neurodiverse couples
Self-inquiry for prospective parents considering adoption or surrogacy
Self-regulation of feelings and behavior
Sexual concerns

Neurodiversity-Affirming Support for Individuals, Couples, and Families

Common areas of focus:

• ADHD, AuDHD, and Autism screening: Initial screening and exploration of ADHD, Autism, and AuDHD characteristics across the lifespan.

• Educational advocacy and support: Navigating educational resources, accommodations, and supports for ADHD, Autism, AuDHD, and learning differences from elementary through graduate school.

• Executive functioning: Developing individualized strategies that support planning, organization, time management, working memory, task initiation, and follow-through across the lifespan.

• Independent living: Building practical skills and supports that foster autonomy and independence for adolescents and young adults.

• Mental health and emotional well-being: Psychotherapy and counseling for concerns that may co-occur with neurodivergence, including social and performance anxiety, depression, stress, and challenges related to navigating neurotypical expectations.

• Medication decision-making: Supporting informed and thoughtful decision-making about whether to pursue a medication evaluation.

• Parent-child relationships: Supporting families in understanding how differences in attention, executive functioning, communication, sensory processing, and emotional regulation may shape parent-child interactions.

• Parent consultation and support: Helping parents understand their child’s neurodevelopmental profile and develop individualized approaches that support regulation, executive functioning, communication, autonomy, and family relationships.

• Relationships and partnerships: Helping neurodivergent individuals and their partners better understand differences in communication, attention, emotional regulation, executive functioning, sensory needs, and ways of connecting.

• Social connection and communication: Supporting children, adolescents, and adults in developing greater confidence and flexibility in navigating relationships while respecting individual communication styles and authentic ways of relating.

• Self-understanding and self-advocacy: Helping adolescents and adults better understand their strengths, needs, preferences, and differences and communicate them effectively to others.

• Understanding ADHD, AuDHD, and Autism: Exploring overlapping and distinct characteristics of ADHD and Autism and developing a more nuanced understanding of an individual’s neurodivergent profile.

• Understanding neurodivergence from the inside: Helping parents and partners develop a deeper understanding of the lived experience of ADHD, AuDHD, and Autism, including how neurodivergent individuals may experience and respond to their environments differently.