It takes a great deal of courage to seek counseling when you are struggling with depression, anxiety, or other challenges in your life. Taking the step to pursue counseling reveals your strength to recognize that you matter. You deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. Your thoughts and feelings have value. Counseling can help you explore your emotions in a safe space, help you change unwanted behaviors or develop new, healthier ones, reduce distress, and increase happiness. Doing the hard work of therapy, through the supportive relationship with a therapist, can help you feel more like your self again. Therapy can also help you grow in new ways, enhancing your strengths with possibilities to thrive.

Some people start counseling because they are hurting emotionally, feel anxious or depressed, are grieving a significant loss, or have experienced trauma or abuse. Other people start counseling because they want to increase the sense of meaning and purpose in their life, learn how to communicate more effectively, or be more intentional about the future direction of their life. No matter what challenges you are facing, feeling connected with and supported by your therapist contributes most to counseling’s effectiveness. I invite you to contact me to see if we feel like we are a good fit for one another.

Healing Connections Counseling and Consulting aims to foster a respectful, inclusive, anti-racist environment that values and honors diversity. Culturally-competent therapy includes all aspects of your identity, such as the broad spectrum of gender, sexuality, racial and ethnic identity, ability status, religious and spiritual beliefs, and relationship status. All of you matters.