Specialties            
I received my Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in 1998. My diverse training and experience allows me to work successfully with a wide range of clinical problems and diagnoses,  including:

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  • Depression
  • Bipolar disorders (mood disturbances that move through extremes)
  • Anger & Rage
  • Anxiety
  • Trauma 
  • Developmental & complex trauma (childhood neglect and/or abuse in relationship over time, accumulated impact of struggle & overwhelm)
  • PTSD (Post-traumatic Stress Disorder)
  • Dissociative disorders (extreme or prolonged periods of disconnection from oneself and one's surroundings)
  • Personality disorders & chronic relationship struggles
  • Family conflict & divorce
Troubles adjusting to life events
Grief & Loss
                                            Self harm behaviors (intentional cutting, etc.) 
                                            Suicidality (chronic & acute thoughts of dying, killing self)
"Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair."              --Rollo May