Each person’s experience is unique, therefore therapy rarely looks the same from person to person. Some hope to build skills to manage stress, anxiety or depression, while others are coping with grief, working through past trauma, or wanting to improve communication and ways of navigating relationships.

Group therapy can be a powerful way to feel a sense of in-it-togetherness with others, learn skills in a structured class-like format, and/or gain benefits from therapy at a much lower cost.

The adolescent years present specific challenges that are unlike any other time of life. Between school pressure, friendship and peer challenges, discovering relationships and dating, social media stress, and growing responsibilities, there is no doubt that young people have a lot to deal with.

As a member of the LGBTQ+ community, I have a deep understanding both personally and from those close to me of the many ups and downs that come with discovering your identity, coming out to family, friends and others in your life, and following a path that feels true to who you are. Whether you are exploring your gender or sexuality in your teens or later in life, grappling with your own or others’ conflicting religious beliefs, or trying to navigate which bathroom to use in public, I see you.

There are so many times in our lives where our feelings of connection with our religion, spirituality, or sense of belonging to something greater than ourselves may be called into question. For some, this is as a young adult starting out on their own, for others it might be as they face the loss of a significant relationship or the death of a loved one, or as they come to face their own aging and death.