My Approach to Helping
I have a passion for helping individuals, couples, and families navigate their mental health journeys. My primary strength as a therapist is connecting with my clients and helping them understand the feelings and thoughts behind their beliefs and actions, and then helping them learn to love themselves. If we work together, I will strive to help you connect with your core, centered self such that you can make decisions and take actions from a healthy, confident, calm and curious place rather than from a frustrated, angry, depressed or anxious place. I work with clients struggling with anxiety, depression and other common life issues.
My primary therapeutic approach is Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy. I also offer Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP). I have an MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and an MBA. I served in senior management positions for small companies for 25 years before becoming a counselor. My life experience informs my work as a therapist.
More Info About My Practice
I graduated from Hamilton College with a major in Comparative Religion in 1990. I then worked in human services for 5 years doing direct care work with mentally ill and developmentally disabled adults before going back to school to get my MBA from Syracuse University. I then worked in upper management for small and medium sized companies, most recently as the CEO of Webucator, a national training company headquartered in Upstate NY, where I worked from 2009 to 2022.
Throughout my adult life I have remained interested in mental health and over the last few years it became increasingly clear to me that I wanted to get back into the mental health field. In July of 2024 I graduated from Le Moyne College with my Masters in Clinical Mental Health Counseling.
My oldest daughter (now 22) developed anorexia at the age of 10. Since then eating disorders have been a big part of my life in many ways. In addition to the obvious personal ways, I speak regularly to other parents who are going through what we went through at home, I joined the board of FEAST (Families Empowered And Supporting Treatment for Eating Disorders) and I wrote and published a book titled Love, Crowd Out, Forgive, Accept: A Guide to Supporting a Loved One with Anorexia.
I work primarily for Mind Trove, LLC at their new office in Syracuse, NY. I also do some work for Breathing Space Psychotherapy at their office in Erieville, NY.
