Whether you are at the beginning of your career and seeking to understand your natural talents and preferences when looking for work, making a change by choice or due to workplace developments, or contemplating the timing and plans for retirement, career counseling can be an indispensable support in helping to guide your path and decisions.

CBT is a well-researched and widely practiced approach to helping people to address the fears and other thinking patterns that interfere with well-being. CBT generally focuses on a specific problem or situation and supports the development of improved relationships with others and greater confidence in one’s own abilities.

The hallmarks of this approach are built on the core assumption that the client is directing the focus, course, and pace of therapy. The role of the therapist is to reflect and support, with genuine regard, empathy and openness, the client’s ability to develop and maintain congruence between their perceptions and the reality of themselves, others, relationships and circumstances.

The family system is a complex set of relationships, layered by the personalities, roles, relationships, patterns, events and immediate and generational history. Family systems reside within, and are the basic building blocks of the larger social environment, which affects and is affected by social factors such as economic, political, racial, sexual and religious differences. Individuals within families both reflect and impact the functioning of the family. Family therapy is focused at the level of the family system and developing approaches to support and improve the overall functioning of the family system.

A more directed form of counseling, life coaching is forward looking and designed to assist with identifying and setting specific goals, and guiding you as you navigate progress toward meeting them. Whether the area is as focused as completing an educational program or as broad as finding peace and happiness, life coaching will support you clarify your values, identify your goals, recognize and overcome obstacles, and achieve your vision and celebrate your achievements.

A variety of practices and approaches to daily living that support groundedness and balance to improve overall well-being and a positive and constructive view of yourself, your relationships, and the world as a whole. Mindfulness practices improve focus and the ability to remain calm and present even in the most stressful conditions, and include breathing techniques, brief and more extended meditations, contemplation, guided imagery, and directed and open-ended journaling.