Find a Therapist in Estero, Florida.

What is your dream state like, are you having troubling dreams? Where is happiness at, why are you not content? What lies have you come to believe? Who told you that and why do you believe it to be true? Why do you face the same giants in your life over and over again? Why did you react like that, what did you hear them say? Do you feel estranged from others? How do you fit in and why? My approach is not only to explore what may be hidden in the subconscious, but to find correlations between interactions both with intimate relationships and casuals ones. I use questions as a probe and analysis as the lens to bring about inner knowledge and healing.

I work with an entire person--the mind, emotions, body, spirit, relationships. I offer an alternative approach to traditional psychotherapy because sometimes we are stuck beyond our thoughts. I believe we are often stuck beyond how we think about something, but by how our body holds and remembers the experiences. After all, we feel the anxiety in our chest, shoulders or stomach. When we are depressed, we struggle to move, sleep, concentrate etc. I work to remove the block from wherever it is stuck. My clients come to me after years of ineffective therapy. They are looking for more than talking about their struggles or identifying how they think about them in favor of a change in living.

You know things seem off track yet can't seem to identify why. Things feel OFF! When we work together, we will gently learn the core of the distress that you are experiencing. As we learn your life history, we may find that some of the distress is rooted in early childhood trauma and attachment wounding. We will embrace and cherish all parts of yourself and learn about the challenging messages you may have grown up with that manifested into the distress you feel today. Distress can be a messenger, an alarm telling you that it is time to heal experiences from earlier in life. In our work together, we'll use EMDR, Emotion Focused Therapy and Expressive Arts to help you thrive.

With a Master’s degree in counseling, I’m trained to treat a wide variety of common mental health issues like anxiety, depression, trauma, stress, grief, and relationship issues. However, my passion is helping stressed out men to overcome their barriers, bad-habits, and insecurities to experience healing and breakthrough. I do so using my training in counseling, my experience in ministry, and my expertise as a trained addiction coach. At Lion Counseling, our mission is to help you escape the cages that hold you back and become the lion God created you to be.

As licensed psychotherapists, we provide a safe and supportive therapeutic environment for helping our clients to process emotions, traumas, and explore their personal experiences to gain insight and make progress toward their goals. Processing your experiences in psychotherapy has many benefits, including lessening undesirable symptoms, increasing positive emotions, improving outlook on life and helping you to understand yourself and your life better. We will utilize psychotherapy techniques tailored to your specific needs to assist you in getting closer to where you would like to be.

I specialize in brief therapy, which is a positive form of psychotherapy. This means I help you find strengths to move towards your goals utilizing the least amount of time necessary. Many people can reduce or resolve issues in 8 to 10 sessions. Please know that very complicated issues and trauma often require longer term treatment, which I also offer. Call today to discuss how therapy might be a benefit to you.

I am truly honored to work with individuals and couples from all backgrounds and orientations. I am also proud to partner with underserved populations such as those in law enforcement, the military, faith based and LGBTQIA+ communities. I respect and honor you as the expert in your own life and will create a space that is safe, affirming, and authentic.

In psychotherapy, you have my full attention to learn how to find the solutions within yourself. I will assist you in becoming the person you want to be and help you cope with life's struggles. I will provide a warm and empathetic atmosphere for you to be open with your feelings so that you can be empowered to reach your goals. We will take this journey together.

Understanding how you view the world can carry immense benefits. I can help you learn how what happened to you may have negatively affected you, and how to understand how that has colored your viewpoint until now. By examining your own history, you can change your life in a positive way going forward. It's almost impossible to see yourself- let me hold up a mirror and help you understand yourself and your world better.

Psychotherapy is an exciting process of exploring, discovering, and learning to understand you yourself and applying that wisdom in your living contexts. My psychotherapy is goal oriented – your goal is my goal, my psychotherapy is respectful, natural, relational, professional, and playful. I firmly believe that effective therapy has to be tailored to you. I believe that therapist rather than an advisor, is a guide, coach, who helps you reach your objectives, helps you grow, communicate effectively, and deliver your messages. I believe in diversity, non-binary, gender affirmative approach to therapy.