Currently I am only offering in-person services to new individual psychotherapy clients in my South Portland Maine office.

Cost:

• $185 for Intake Assessment

• $160 per hour for 50 minutes of individual therapy

• $200 for 50 minutes of family therapy

Discounted Therapy Spots

I hold a number of discounted individuals counseling slots for those who have: both an annual family income of 60K or less and identify with having 2 or more of the following life experiences:

-Adoptees-

-Foster Care Alumni

- MPE, NPE, Donor Conceived Person, or person born from Surrogacy

-Birth or First or Adoptive Parent of an Adult (18+)

- Have experienced Addiction 

-BIPOC 

-LGTBQIA+

• Inquire within for pricing and availability

These spots are 6 months in length service spots with re-evaluation after that time. Please contact me to see if I have an opening or to get on my waitlist.

I have been influenced by the work of many theorists, including but not limited to: Irvin D. Yalom, Jennifer Freyd, John Bowlby, Carl Jung and Gabor Mate.

Here are some strategies I may use during our time together.

Narrative Therapy with Storytelling

Narrative therapy pays attention to how people make sense of their experiences and honors our values. This kind of therapy allows us to see our problems as separate from who we are as people. I may use a mix of storytelling prompts to help you look at your story through a third-person lens. This can help give you new perspectives and work through problems differently than you ever have. 

Written Exposure Therapy (WET) for PTSD

WET is a 5 session therapeutic writing intervention that can help you find new ways to think about a traumatic experience and what it means to you.

Inner Child and Reparenting Work 

These techniques have been around for a while for good reason: they are effective. Reparenting work allows you the opportunity to give yourself what you didn't have growing up in a way that changes your relationship with yourself. This work involves learning new, adaptive ways of being with yourself in the world and with others. 

Stages of Change Model for Dual Diagnosis

This model helps us describe and talk about how a person integrates new goals and behaviors at various places in their journey of change.

Communication and Boundaries Work

Without clear boundaries, resentments can form, harden and hurt our closest relationships. Clarifying and communicating your boundaries is an ongoing process and it can bring up fear and anxiety—but the work is well worth it. Boundary work creates real change. 

Motivational Interviewing Techniques

MI is a collaborative, goal-oriented style of communication that places focus on the language of change

Decision Trees and Decision Mapping

Decision Mapping is a way to visually strategize and can be helpful when embarking on new territory. When you are faced with forks in the road, these tools, and discussions that arise from them, can be useful in sorting out the next right thing for you to do. 

Adoption Constellation & Trauma Informed Counseling

Adoption trauma-informed therapists understand that our body has memory through our senses even before we had verbal language, meaning that even if they were relinquished as a newborn, an adoptee has experienced and remembers (on a body-level) the loss of their birthmother; this is called implicit memory (Randolph, 2014). Some common themes discussed with all triad members in therapy often include: unprocessed grief, shame, identity, discovery, and search and reunion. Adoption constellation counseling is work that can be done individually and in family therapy with adoptees, birthparents and adoptive parents. 

Search and Reunion Strategies

This work is for anyone who is interested in connecting with long lost family members and has many stages:

• Consideration

• The Search Process

• Initial Contact

• Possible Ongoing Relationship Building. 

Grief is always involved throughout search and reunion regardless of whether or not family is found, and regardless of whether or not they are interested in reunion. 

In therapy, we can navigate this often rough, bumpy terrain together and consider all options.

 Some specific strategies I use during this process include: 

• Creative Writing Prompts

• Education and Guidance for searching

• Resource Connection for aid with search,

• First Contact Initiation Support and Ongoing Support, 

• Family Counseling, 

• Decision Making Maps  

• Communication Role Play.

Family Tree and Genogram Development

The Genogram is an in-depth version of a family tree that goes back several generations and is a frequently used visual method for identifying who is in the family, and what role important family members play with respect to one another.

Support Groups:

Beginners Commitment packet:

Cost:

• Initially $105 for 3 group commitment package billed after first group

• $35 dollars per group after this, billed after each attendance

Contact me to schedule a time to talk, so we can see if a support group is a good fit for you.

Workshops

Are priced individually.