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We do things differently. We combine counseling and coaching.

Research shows the strongest predictor of your success is our relationship. To create the best relationship, to achieve the best results, and to support you through healing and action, we combine traditional counseling with modern-day coaching. 

Driving growth and meaningful results, we create a custom counseling strategy for each client based on the following techniques:

Nearly everything we do is grounded in the principles of Person-Centered Therapy.  It is a proven, global, humanistic model that prioritizes our relationship through unconditional positive regard and empathy. 
 
Clients can expect the following environment and experience:  
  • Ideal for individuals, couples & families
  • Acceptance, authenticity, and empathy
  • Fosters self-confidence and initiative
  • Mitigate feelings of distress, increase self-esteem, & self-expression
  • Greater trust, decreased defensiveness, insecurity & guilt
  • Improved mind-body wellness and healthier relationships
Gestalt therapy is a client-centered, experiential approach that emphasizes awareness, present-moment experience, and personal responsibility to help individuals integrate thoughts, feelings, and behaviors for greater wholeness. 
 
Clients can expect the following environment and experience:  
  • Ideal for individuals, couples & families
  • Focus is on the present or what is called the here and now
  • Facilitates role playing and re-enactments of past experiences
  • Healthy-Safe confrontation and questioning
  • Enhances advance techniques, such as CBT

Existential therapy focuses on understanding and resolving questions about life, death, meaning, and purpose. It emphasizes the individual’s unique experience and their capacity for self-determination. 

Clients can expect the following environment and experience:  

  • Ideal for individuals, couples & families
  • Examines life, freedom, death, and responsibility
  • Explores humanity: Mind, body, spirit, social existence
  • Gain greater life meaning, purpose, and fulfillment
  • Enhances advance techniques, such as CBT

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps to crack the vicious cycle of negative thinking and feeling, making it highly popular for treating depression, anxiety, and PTSD. 

Clients can expect the following environment and experience:  

  • Ideal for individuals, couples & families
  • Decrease anger, stress, and rumination
  • Develop emotional and life stress management skills
  • Reshape thoughts, leading to positive behaviors
  • Identify inaccurate and negative thoughts

The Gottman Method is a powerful approach to strengthening intimate relationships. It helps couples improve communication, deepen emotional connection, and resolve conflict in ways that build trust and intimacy.

Clients can expect the following environment and experience:  

  • Ideal for pre-marital, marital and committed partnerships
  • Enhancing communication skills and emotional attunement
  • Managing conflict constructively and reducing negative patterns
  • Building friendship, trust, and shared meaning
  • Strengthening connection and long-term relationship satisfaction

Rooted in decades of corporate and entrepreneurial experience, our coaching blends practical insight with personal development strategies to help individuals, couples, and teams create clarity, confidence, and lasting growth.

Combining coaching with counseling techniques, we turn insight into action.
 
Clients can expect the following environment and experience:  
  • Identifying personal and professional goals
  • Building new habits and communication skills
  • Strengthening confidence and leadership capacity
  • Creating realistic, actionable plans for growth
Accountability and growth-oriented feedback are central to the coaching process. Through honest reflection and consistent check-ins, we help you stay focused, motivated, and aligned with your goals.
 
Clients can expect the following environment and experience:  
  • Tracking progress and celebrating milestones
  • Identifying patterns that support or hinder growth
  • Offering clear, constructive feedback
  • Encouraging accountability rooted in compassion and integrity

We help clients approach challenges with confidence and clarity by strengthening problem-solving and decision-making skills. Together, we explore strategies that empower thoughtful action and smart choices.

Clients can expect the following environment and experience:  

  • Breaking complex problems into manageable steps
  • Evaluating options and making clear decisions
  • Thinking creatively and strategically
  • Strengthening confidence in choices

Coaching fosters mindset and perspective shifts, helping clients approach life’s challenges with clarity, confidence, and resilience.

Clients can expect the following environment and experience:  

  • Reframing limiting beliefs
  • Adopting a growth mindset
  • Viewing challenges in new ways
  • Building resilience and confidence

Driving growth and meaningful results, and to best support individuals, couples, and families, we create a custom counseling strategy for each client based on the following techniques:

Nearly everything we do is grounded in the principles of Person-Centered Therapy.  It is a proven, global, humanistic model that prioritizes our relationship through unconditional positive regard and empathy. 
 
Clients can expect the following environment and experience:  
  • Ideal for individuals, couples & families
  • Acceptance, authenticity, and empathy
  • Fosters self-confidence and initiative
  • Mitigate feelings of distress, increase self-esteem, & self-expression
  • Greater trust, decreased defensiveness, insecurity & guilt
  • Improved mind-body wellness and healthier relationships
To enhance our core foundation, we utilize Gestalt therapy. This approach is a client-centered, experiential approach that emphasizes awareness, present-moment experience, and personal responsibility to help individuals integrate thoughts, feelings, and behaviors for greater wholeness. 
 
Clients can expect the following environment and experience:  
  • Ideal for individuals, couples & families
  • Focus is on the present or what is called the here and now
  • Facilitates role playing and re-enactments of past experiences
  • Healthy-Safe confrontation and questioning
  • Enhances advance techniques, such as CBT

Existential therapy focuses on understanding and resolving questions about life, death, meaning, and purpose. It emphasizes the individual’s unique experience and their capacity for self-determination. 

Clients can expect the following environment and experience:  

  • Ideal for individuals, couples & families
  • Examines life, freedom, death, and responsibility
  • Explores humanity: Mind, body, spirit, social existence
  • Gain greater life meaning, purpose, and fulfillment
  • Enhances advance techniques, such as CBT

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps to crack the vicious cycle of negative thinking and feeling, making it highly popular for treating depression, anxiety, and PTSD. 

Clients can expect the following environment and experience:  

  • Decrease anger, stress, and rumination
  • Develop emotional and life stress management skills
  • Reshape thoughts, leading to positive behaviors
  • Identify inaccurate and negative thoughts

The Gottman Method is a powerful approach to strengthening intimate relationships. It helps couples improve communication, deepen emotional connection, and resolve conflict in ways that build trust and intimacy.

Clients can expect the following environment and experience:  

  • Ideal for pre-marital, marital, and committed partnerships
  • Enhancing communication skills and emotional attunement
  • Managing conflict constructively and reducing negative patterns
  • Building friendship, trust, and shared meaning
  • Strengthening connection and long-term relationship satisfaction

Rooted in decades of corporate and entrepreneurial experience, our coaching blends practical insight with personal development strategies to help individuals, couples, and teams create clarity, confidence, and lasting growth.

Combining coaching with counseling techniques, we turn insight into action.
 
Clients can expect the following environment and experience:  
  • Clarifying personal and professional goals
  • Building new habits and communication skills
  • Strengthening confidence and leadership capacity
  • Creating realistic, actionable plans for growth
Accountability and growth-oriented feedback are central to the coaching process. Through honest reflection and consistent check-ins, we help you stay focused, motivated, and aligned with your goals.
 
Clients can expect the following environment and experience:  
  • Tracking progress and celebrating milestones
  • Identifying patterns that support or hinder growth
  • Offering clear, constructive feedback
  • Encouraging accountability rooted in compassion and integrity

We help clients approach challenges with confidence and clarity by strengthening problem-solving and decision-making skills. Together, we explore strategies that empower thoughtful action and smart choices.

Clients can expect the following environment and experience:  

  • Breaking complex problems into manageable steps
  • Evaluating options and making clear decisions
  • Thinking creatively and strategicall
  • Strengthening confidence in choices

Coaching fosters mindset and perspective shifts, helping clients approach life’s challenges with clarity, confidence, and resilience.

Clients can expect the following environment and experience:  

  • Reframing limiting beliefs
  • Adopting a growth mindset
  • Viewing challenges in new ways
  • Building adaptability and confidence
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