Services

As a mental health coach, I partner with clients to help them clarify their goals and create actions and habits to achieve them. My work focuses on supporting parents, teens, and young adults in developing coping skills to navigate nearly any life stressor, though most specifically:

• Navigating family transitions
• Coping with substance use issues
• Managing school or work stress
• Navigating social relationships
• Transitioning to high school/college
• Launching into adulthood

Anyone experiencing conflict in their relationships can benefit from being coached through considering options to manage and resolve the issue. I specialize in supporting clients of all ages who are navigating conflicts due to: 

• Parent-child/teen/young adult issues
• Separation and divorce
• School/social issues
• Substance use issues

New Ways for Families® is a skills training method for separated or divorced parents designed to reduce the impact of conflict on children, reduce parent stress levels, bring calm to potentially high-conflict situations, and teach negotiation and decision-making skills.

Ideally, both parents individually complete the 6 online self-directed classes of New Ways for Families® and participate in at least 3 coaching sessions. The sessions allow for practicing the simple skills learned through the online classes while integrating them into real-life situations. 

If you’re preparing for a mediation to solve any type of problem, one or two sessions before the mediation can help you stay calm, make reasonable proposals and make decisions that can last. 

In pre mediation coaching you will practice 4 key skills to help you make your own agreements in mediation or in negotiations with the other parent or with the help of a lawyer. You will also learn how to better make decisions in order to successfully co-parent and protect your children from being caught in the middle. 

In this New Ways for Families® program you will learn to: 

• Acknowledge there is more than one solution to every problem
• Turn complaints into proposals for future agreements
• Avoid extreme actions, language, and parenting requests
• Respond to hostile communications to avoid escalating the conflict

Prime for Life® is an evidenced-based motivational prevention and pre-treatment program for adolescents and adults who are making high-risk choices with drugs and alcohol. It is designed to change drinking and drug use patterns by altering beliefs, attitudes, risk perceptions, and motivations. The class for adolescents has an accompanying parent component. All classes have individual coaching sessions included. 

For classes, add your name to the waitlist and receive an email when class registration opens

Individual and Brief Intervention sessions available now

Invitation to Change (ITC) is based in science and kindness, designed for the loved ones of people struggling with substance use issues. With a skills-focused, compassionate outlook, the ITC approach works to reduce shame and stigma, while providing tools to support growth and promote change.   

ITC combines the evidence-based protocols of Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT), Motivational Interviewing (MI) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).

Topics from the group include: 

• Understanding your loved one’s behavior 
• Learning practical tools for how to talk with them about their substance use
• Learning what makes someone decide to change and what to do if they don’t want to change
• Taking care of yourself so you can stay connected with your loved one even when things are hard

New groups start every quarter - join the waitlist here