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Services
A grounded, family-centered approach to real change
My work is rooted in one core belief: behavior doesn’t exist in a vacuum. When a child or teen is struggling, the entire family system is impacted. Therapy works best when we understand what’s driving the behavior, strengthen the adults guiding the system, and give everyone clear tools to respond differently.
I work with children, teens, parents, couples, and adults who feel stuck in cycles of conflict, escalation, or emotional overwhelm. Sessions are structured, practical, and focused on helping families restore stability, safety, and connection.
Therapy for Children & Teens (Ages 5–17)
Many families reach out when their child’s behavior has escalated to the point where home feels tense, unpredictable, or unsafe. Explosive reactions, defiance, emotional shutdown, avoidance, or aggression often leave parents feeling helpless and unsure of what to do next.
These behaviors are rarely about a child being “bad.” More often, they reflect a nervous system that is overwhelmed and lacking the skills needed to regulate emotions under stress. Behavior becomes the language when children don’t yet have the tools to express what they’re experiencing internally.
How therapy helps:
- Identify the root causes driving oppositional or reactive behavior
- Build emotional awareness and regulation skills
- Reduce explosive or shutdown responses
- Improve communication between teens and parents
- Create accountability without constant power struggles
What sessions look like
Sessions are calm, structured, and practical. I work directly with children and teens to understand what happens before, during, and after problem behaviors. Once we understand that lived experience, we practice skills that support regulation, communication, and problem-solving.
When appropriate, parents are included to ensure strategies are consistent and effective at home.
Parent Coaching & Family Therapy
Parents often seek support when their child’s behavior feels unpredictable, intense, or unmanageable. Many feel caught between being too strict or too permissive, while nothing seems to change. Over time, confidence erodes and the household begins to feel chaotic.
Most behavioral struggles are not discipline problems. They are regulation and skill-development problems. When adults understand how nervous system development, attachment, and stress impact behavior, responses become more effective and less reactive.
How therapy helps parents and families
- Understand behavior through a nervous-system lens
- Learn calm, consistent responses during escalation
- Reduce power struggles and repeated conflict cycles
- Strengthen parental confidence and clarity
- Restore connection while maintaining authority
What sessions look like
Parent and family sessions are highly practical and skills-focused. I provide education, real-time coaching, and clear strategies that can be applied immediately at home. The focus is on reducing reactivity and creating predictable, supportive structure that helps children regulate more effectively.
PTSD & Complex Trauma Therapy
Many clients with trauma histories appear functional on the outside while feeling constantly on edge internally. As a veteran, I personally understand the impact of high-stress or traumatic experiences which makes me uniquely positioned to support veterans and first responders who are navigating the sleep disruption, emotional numbness, hypervigilance, intrusive memories, or sudden emotional reactions that are common.
Trauma is not just about what happened. It’s about how the nervous system adapted to survive. When those survival responses stay activated, the body continues reacting as if danger is present.
How therapy helps
- Understand trauma responses without shame
- Build nervous system regulation and grounding skills
- Reduce emotional and physical reactivity to triggers
- Reprocess traumatic memories using EMDR and bilateral stimulation when appropriate
- Restore a sense of safety, control, and self-trust
What sessions look like
Therapy is paced, structured, and trauma-informed. We focus first on stabilization before moving into deeper trauma work. EMDR and other bilateral stimulation techniques are used when appropriate to help the brain process memories without requiring clients to relive events in detail.
This work is available for children, teens, and adults, including veterans and first responders.
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Couples Therapy
Couples therapy is available for partners with or without children, though a primary focus of my work is with couples who are also parenting together. When the couple relationship is strained, the entire family system feels it.
Strengthening the couple relationship helps stabilize the home, improve communication, and reduce conflict that children often absorb and reflect through behavior.
Couples sessions focus on communication patterns, emotional regulation, and building teamwork so partners can respond to challenges with clarity rather than escalation.
