I am addicted to sadness, but I also like joy.

With many years of clinical and teaching experience, I specialize in treating primary, secondary, and generational trauma. I write, educate, and speak extensively on these topics. 

Here’s a closer look at how I approach my work within each of my specialty areas. My goal is to offer meaningful, evidence-based support tailored to the unique needs of each individual, family, and organizations I serve. 

Working with legal associations and individuals to provide continuing education and private psychotherapy around secondary trauma and other mental health issues. Meeting with legal firms and court systems to provide continuing legal education in the form of lectures or seminars as well as group support.  

• Continuing Legal Education
• Keynote Speaking
• Speaking Engagements on Trauma and Well-being Among Legal Professionals

Working with children, adolescents and families and the myriad of mental health issues that may occur. These issues may include basic communication, co-parenting, and family reunification to mental health concerns such as anxiety, depression and trauma.  

Working with organizations and individuals to create strategies to meet their needs; be it continuing education credits, addressing a specific event within an organization or other.  

Helping parents put their anger and hurt aside and move forward in a healthy way for the well-being of their children. Co-parenting Therapy helps in reducing conflict, improving communication, and implementing helpful parenting strategies. 

Helping families to rebuild damaged relationships. This therapy may be court-ordered and it is typically seen in separated or divorced families in which there is a favored parent and a rejected parent.  

Complex and timely individual needs assessments

• Psychosexual Evaluation: Determines sexual interests, attitudes, and behaviors to determine deviancy issues. It also evaluates the risk, if any, acting out sexually in the future.
• Psychosocial Assessments: A valuation of an individual’s mental health and social well-being. It assesses self-perception and the individual’s ability to function in the community.
• Bonding Assessments: Determines the type and strength of a parental/caregiver bond with child and child with parent/caregiver.
• Trauma Assessments: Specialty trauma assessments and MAPS© for moving forward.

Working to help organizations and individuals across the globe to become better informed, connected and supported with the ultimate goal of de-stigmatizing mental health issues particularly surrounding all types of traumas.