Services Provided

If you are a new client, please complete the following forms and bring them to your first session.

• Client Intake Form
• Biographical Information Form

 

Adult Individual Psychotherapy

Balance. Growth. Healing. Joy

I believe that the individual's psychotherapeutic journey is as unique as the individual. I work collaboratively with my clients to make sense of their suffering. We work towards liberating them from pain into a state of emotional well -being, a reunion with the Self and a fulfilling future.

Debra uses a psychodynamic orientation to work with the individual's family of origin story and uses practical solution focused therapy including cognitive benavioral strategies to help the individual move forward.

 

Children/Play Therapy

Parenting Education

Parent coaching assists parents with every day with dilemmas related to raising children including:

- Respectful communication in the home.
- How to handle young children’s fears and anxiety.
- Setting appropriate boundaries and limits developing behavior plans to implement at home.
- Anger management in children and parents.

"Children need to be emotionally met at their own level using a developmentally appropriate approach". Psychotherapy helps children in a variety of ways. They receive emotional support, learn how to resolve conflicts with people, learn to understand their feelings and why they behave in certain ways. They can also find solutions to problems they are experiencing. Goals for therapy may be specific (changes in behavior, improved relations with friends or family, improved study habits and organizational skills), or more general (less anxiety, improved confidence and self-esteem). The length of psychotherapy depends on the complexity and severity of problems.

 

Play Therapy

Creative Solutions for kids! Geared toward young children, this technique uses a variety of activities such as artwork, play and puppets, story telling, board games and more in order to establish communication with the therapist and then resolve problems. Play allows the child to express and work through emotions and problems that may be too difficult to process elsewhere. Debra uses sand tray therapy in which children are able to create a story and work through their feelings using miniature figures in a tray of sand. Older children utilize the sand tray, story telling, drawing as well as talking with the therapist.

 

Pre- Marital, Marriage and Couples Counseling

Connection. Love. Warmth. Laughter

"I work with couples to enhance and heal the relationship through the development of conflict resolution skills, mutual respectful communication and physical and emotional intimacy".

Start to have fun again!

 

Counseling is also avaliable for:

• ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
• Adolescents
• Anger Management
• Anxiety Management
• Assertiveness Training
• Career Stress and Changes
• Children
• Communication Skills
• Couples/Relationships/Families
• Depression
• Divorce
• Gay/Lesbian Issues
• Grief/Loss
• Life Transitions
• Mediation
• Parenting
• Play Therapy
• Pre-Marriage Counseling
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorders
• Step/Blended Families
• Self Esteem/Personal Growth
• Stress Management
• Sand Tray Therapy
• Women's Issues

 

Insurance:

I do not currently accept insurance for services rendered. Many insurance companies reimburse some or all of the fee. I will be happy to provide you with a statement for insurance purposes at the end of each month.