• Individual Psychotherapy
• CBT-I for Insomnia
• Stress Management (see details below)*
• Parent Education: guiding good choices & staying connected with your teen
• Consultation
• Workshops

Therapeutic possibilities include:

• Open discussion of your concerns.
• Address issues that have been troubling to you, including: relationships, life transitions, sexuality issues, anxiety, depression, money, burnout, grief and loss, recovery from trauma, separation, divorce, parenting, prenatal and postpartum challenges, health and medical issues, visualizing success.

Therapy also offers:

• Support and help to resolve past experiences by exploring the connections between your personal history and your current experiences.

• Explore how your inside process works, and find Self leadership. Discover ways to welcome and connect with all parts of yourself as you learn new options.

I work with adults of all ages 18- 101.

I accept most insurances including Blue Cross Blue Shield, MVP, CBA, Cigna out of network, VHAP, Catamount, and UBH. If your insurer is not listed, please ask me about coverage. Individual payment arrangements are possible.

Tired of being tired?!

Insomnia is such a large problem, and plays a role in anxiety, depression, and almost every kind of mental health issue.  Over 50% of adults now complain of difficulty sleeping!- half of these chronically.

In class session you can learn skills to successfully overcome insomnia using cognitive-behavioral practices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) is a research based educational program endorsed by the National Institutes of Health. CBT-I gets a total endorsement in the March 2019 issue of Consumers Reports Magazine, in their article : Sleep Better, Starting Tonight!

Research on CBT-I shows:
• 75% of insomnia patients experience significantly improved sleep.
• The majority become normal sleepers.
• 85- 90% reduce or eliminate sleeping pills.

Who would benefit:
• Individuals with problems falling asleep or waking during the night.
• Individuals who wish to reduce or eliminate sleep medications.

Class information & Schedule: 
One initial individual sleep assessment: 50 minutes. 
Followed by: five two hour group psychoeducational classes over 6 or 7 weeks.  Small class sizes; limited to 8.

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A Practical Program To Decrease
the Physical and Psychological
Symptoms of Stress.

You can learn how to deeply relax and change your responses to stress.

Increase your sense of control and well being.

Learning and practicing skills to elicit the relaxation response is actually easy to do. Taking time to learn mindful relaxation will encourage your own innate capacity for health and wellness.

It has been shown repeatedly that relaxationtechniques can:

• Reduce hypertension.
• Diminish anxiety and fear.
• Increase feelings of well-being, comfort and control.
• Promote healing and recovery.
• Help with insomnia.
• Decrease symptoms of PMS.
• Decrease infertility.
• Help cope with hostility.
• Help to prepare for and relax during medical tests, procedures and treatments.
• Reduce pain and the use of pain medications.
• Reduce nausea/vomiting side effects of chemotherapy.
• Reduce stress.
• Diminish mild depression.

Offering:
• Private stress management sessions.
• A series of five or eight weekly classes.
• A two hour introduction class.
• Individually designed classes and workshops to meet the needs of your organization.