All services start with a free, brief consultation so that we can determine if this could be a good fit for your current needs. If it is, your first session, the assessment, will be scheduled. Otherwise, referral ideas will be provided.

This stage involves developing a thorough understanding of your past and current mental health struggles and symptoms, how they are impacting you, what treatments you’ve tried, if any, and what you think has or might work, and what hasn’t.

This stage involves developing a thorough understanding of what is working for you in your life right now, what your goals are, your values, passions, interests, community, and how you’d like your life to look in the future.

Using the information gathered from the assessments, we discuss therapy options. Together, we map out the goals for our work together, the plans on how to get there, and how we will measure progress.

Therapy and coaching services are highly individualized but all will include some level of DBT and ACT skills training. It is critically important to have effective, healthy coping tools that you can use while doing the hard work of therapy, and beyond, while doing the hard work of living.

The work of therapy is a process of gaining awareness and insight, mindfully connecting to your experiences, developing the muscle of acceptance and learning how to make and sustain needed changes.

During the Action Plan stage, you will determine with your therapist periods of time you will review the work you’re doing together to make sure you’re getting your needs met. This is a time of reflection, reassessment, and often a time of celebration as we look at the work we’ve done, the process involved, what’s been learned, and the different ways you’ve made progress.