I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and received my Master’s Degree from LaSalle University in Philadelphia, PA. My educational and training background is in childhood development, family systems, and optimizing family functioning. I work at BCA Therapy, LLC, a group private practice with offices in Wayne and Yardley, Pennsylvania. I practice using a framework of Relational Life Therapy that focuses on improving relationships through repair and understanding of how past experience can affect our way of showing up in close relationships, and how to prevent this from being passed down through the generations. I am certified in Mindfulness – based Play Family therapy using sandtray play therapy, to help children with trauma and traumatic grief. My experience includes working with children of divorce, high-conflict family relationships, neurodiversity in families and relationships, children in foster care and adoptive families.
Often, family members bring to the divorce process internalized messages that could affect their ability to generate goals and reach agreements with one another. As your collaborative divorce communication specialist or child specialist, I am focused on minimizing emotional stress on the children, and potential family disruption by providing a safe, open environment, and by coaching parents through the divorce process in a healthy and productive way. My role is to help parents establish healthy boundaries that buffer the children against potentially toxic levels of stress that could impact children far into the future. I believe in a family’s inherent ability to repair, heal and be more relational in their lives, while instilling hope that healthier ways of relating can be part of their future.
“The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.” Rachel Naomi Remen
