Greetings - Crossroads

Thank you for meeting me at the Crossroads of Change.  The Crossroads of Change is my Nevada County, California solopreneur therapy practice.  The cornerstones of my therapy practice are partnership, safety, empathy, authenticity, genuineness, compassion, respect, tolerance, and hope.  The capstone of my practice is peace.  

Patients who choose to work with me in a professional therapy relationship are seeking relief from relationship distress brought about by the complexities of living in or around situations that create frequent, intense, or persistent sadness, anger, stress, conflict, and harm that won't go away or is getting worse.

Patients are...

• Parents who have been estranged by their adult children.  
  

• Adult children who have been estranged by their parents.
  

• Stepparents who are in conflict with their partner, stepchildren, co-parent, or their own children.
  

• Uncoupled parents who are co-parenting their children at the brink of a break-up or during a separation or divorce and who are in conflict with each other over the care and well-being of their children through the post-divorce adjustment period.  
  

• Adults who are experiencing unrelenting emotional pain associated with a shadowy or secret love affair.
  

• Adults who are spiraling through, or on the brink of, a relationship break-up with a romantic partner, family member, friend,  work associate, or group.  
  

• Adults who are did or experience harmful spiritual, social, professional, or political coercion, mistreatment, or bullying.  
  

• Loved ones who are healing from the devastating loss of a loved one to suicide.
  

• Heroic family caregivers who are exhausted, frustrated, isolated, lonely, and worried about how to best take care of themselves and their loved ones through short or long-term suffering and everything else that comes with it.  
  

• Anyone grieving unspeakable and/or ambivalent loss associated with pregnancy, miscarriage, abortion, or adoption.
  

If you are overwhelmed by the weight of your life, the situation in which you find yourself, or by the challenges that lie ahead, then let’s talk in real-time and find out how much sense it makes to build a therapeutic alliance on your behalf.  Let’s talk about how to help you build the mighty bridge that crosses the chasm between your past and present as you walk intentionally, with great confidence, into the land of opportunity, safety, peace, and comfort.”You may count on me to:

• Support you for who you are instead of who others want you to be.  You are enough.  
  

• Encourage you to build upon your dreams, strengths, and freedom to choose.  
  

• Cheer you on to do more of what works well for you now.   If nothing is works well now, then let's brainstorm ideas we can work on together inside session and ideas you may practice, safely, outside of session.
  

• Educate, coach, an inspire you to lean into your use of effective communication, coping, and conflict resolution skills in all of your relationships, especially the relationship you have with yourself.
  

• Work together to help you replace negative, intrusive, unwanted mind chatter with adaptable thoughts so you have the skills to reduce stress and open the door to positive experiences of positive and lasting change.
  

• Help you identify healthy vs. harmful intimate partner, family, friend, and group relationships.  Support you with your decision to stay or leave.
  

• Provide you with referrals to additional mental health specialists; licensed medical doctors; service agencies; information sources; references.
  

Remember this:  You were born with, and have assembled over time, strengths and gifts that you may, or may not, choose to share with others.  Let’s bring those strengths and gifts into the open by talking about them.  Let’s shed light upon them so they can be seen, heard, and felt.  They want to empower you to let them join you, side-by-side, into the next chapter of your life as you see fit.   May you cross the bridge into the next chapter with the confidence to know you have what it takes to realize the possibility of the fruition of your dreams, step-by-step, in each and every moment of your life.

To learn more about how we might work together in a therapeutic relationship to bring you some relief and help set the stage for a more joyful and peaceful journey at the crossroads of change, please send me a private and confidential message on the "Let's Connect" page.

I am currently on a work break.  I intend to resume work in my private therapy practice, Crossroads of Change, as well as in my conflict-dispute resolution, mediation, conflict and relationship coaching private practice, Forging Common Ground, later in 2024.