From surviving to
THRIVING.
Therapy that doesn’t feel like therapy to help individuals, children and their families discover what it’s like to move beyond simply surviving and actually thrive.
Understand what’s keeping you stuck
Find solutions that work for you and your family
Enjoy the process!
- Physically fatigued and emotionally drained
- Overwhelmed by your child’s recent diagnosis
- Desperate for solutions that work
- Exasperated with your current situation
- Lost and unsure where to start
- Alone in the process
- Stuck in the same patterns
- Flat and uninspired by life
We promise.
You don’t need magic wand (or a degree in psychology) to turn surviving into thriving.
Therapy that doesn’t feel like therapy.
No one (myself included) wants to struggle through awkward talk-therapy week after week. Modern times call for modern therapy techniques. You deserve to enjoy the process.
Tools & resources to help you along the way.
There’s no one-size fits all in therapy. But there is a unique collection of tools and resources to help guide and inspire you on your journey. You don’t have to go it alone or unarmed.
Guidance and reassurance that you CAN do this!
Most of the time we can’t see the forest through the trees. But there’s still progress. You deserve someone who will tell you “You’re doing a good job. Keep going.”
After years of providing a wide range of therapeutic services for individuals, children and their families, I know that traditional talk therapy can feel like a struggle. Play therapy changes that. I specialize in a form of play therapy called sandtray which encourages participants to express themselves and their worlds using miniature figurines. And yes, it works for ages 1-100.
Therapy is work, but it doesn’t always have to feel like work. Together, we’ll discover the solutions that work for you and your family so you can finally feel confident, in-charge, and know what it means to not just survive but truly thrive.
– Nancy B., Minneapolis
– Rhonda J., St. Paul
Sandtray Therapy: Guided expression through play.
Sandtray therapy has been used since the early 1900’s but has become more popular in recent years. Encouraged by Jung because of its use of metaphors to represent feelings the sand tray method can be adjusted for use with kids with varying degrees of developmental maturity as well as adults. In sandtray, clients use miniature figures to set up situations, show feelings, explore memories and more. During the process, the brain engages differently to facilitate a verbal representation of the “story” being played out in the sandtray.
It is said that play is children’s “work,” although it is just as true for adults. Our right brain is activated during creative activities and often facilitates deeper understanding of the why’s and what next steps are needed for a patient’s care. Additionally, using a playful approach and having fun can lessen the intensity of the emotions related to the “work” of therapy.
Life is hard. Self-discovery is hard. Parenting is hard. But you can transform surviving into thriving!
1. You CAN reclaim charge of your head and your home.
Together, we’ll find solutions to tame the chaos and work through the root causes of the behaviors that wreak havoc in your head and at home.
2. You CAN find solutions that work.
Sometimes it feels like you’re trying to stick Jello-O to the wall. But maybe it’s not the Jell-O that’s the problem. Together, we’ll find alternatives to the wall (and somewhere appropriate for that Jello-O to be).
3. You CAN thrive.
Understanding where you’re stuck and in survival mode is the first step to moving forward. When you understand what survival mode looks like for you, only then can you work towards your goals and discover a life of thriving.