I leverage a person's strengths to stabilize, improve, and broaden their current functioning, with a goal of sustainable improvement. My style is grounded in the reality of the present with attention to past events and patterns when they interfere with the present and jeopardize long-term success in the future. I specialize in major life traumas and transitions: high school & college graduation, marriage, relocation, divorce, retirement, grief, & terminal illness. She is well acquainted with the difficulties encountered in life and how they can, at times, derail us.