I offer counseling services for adults, children, and families. I offer flexible office hours that include evening and weekends. In addition to counseling services, I also provide crisis consultation, pet assisted therapy, and play therapy for children. My practice is located in the lovely renovated Hardwick Inn in the center of town.

Are you overwhelmed and anxious? Are you tired of riding an emotional roller coaster? Do you want to stop the emotional pain but don't know how? I help individuals who've experienced traumatic stress regain confidence and learn how to live life on your terms. I help you develop skills that will enable you to move beyond any experience that has negatively affected your life. Together we will explore self-compassion and what it means to "dare greatly". In a safe and supportive atmosphere you will: * Learn effective ways of coping * Gain a sense of calm and clarity * Cultivate self-compassion and kindness * Discover ways to shift limiting beliefs * Live a life with less stress and less fear.

By cultivating self-knowledge, I help teenagers and adults of all ages: * Better understand themselves and the obstacles that have stopped their growth * Regain mental balance and serenity * Build satisfying relationships * Find personal direction and meaning People seek psychotherapy for a variety of reasons: The strain of daily life can overwhelm us, disorganizing our relationships and our work; forgotten, unfinished business from childhood can strike unexpectedly, plunging us into panic or deep depression; loneliness, by degrees, can become unendurable. Very few can solve these problems by themselves. But almost everyone can use therapy, a safe, receptive, and confidential setting, to resolve or improve their emotional crises and, beyond that, to reach higher levels of maturity.

Are you overwhelmed and anxious? Are you tired of riding an emotional roller coaster? Do you want to stop the emotional pain but don't know how? I help individuals who've experienced traumatic stress regain confidence and learn how to live life on your terms. I help you develop skills that will enable you to move beyond any experience that has negatively affected your life. Together we will explore self-compassion and what it means to "dare greatly". In a safe and supportive atmosphere you will: * Learn effective ways of coping * Gain a sense of calm and clarity * Cultivate self-compassion and kindness * Discover ways to shift limiting beliefs * Live a life with less stress and less fear.

I provide Individual Therapy (including Play Therapy) for all ages. I work with clients who have an array of concerns including but not limited to, Trauma & PTSD, Anxiety, Depression, Stress, Difficulties Adjusting to Change/Life Transitions, and individuals coping with Grief & Loss. I provide a safe and supportive therapeutic space for all of my clients. I am here to actively listen, provide support in a non-judgmental space, and offer you a safe environment to explore past and present life experiences. I am a Rostered Psychotherapist providing an integrative approach to understanding and treating the full range of mental-health challenges that encompasses the following theoretical orientations/therapies: Humanistic Therapy, Person-Centered Therapy, Non-directive Play Therapy, and Psychodynamic Therapy. I believe that therapeutic play is a way of being with a child that honors their unique developmental stage and looks for ways of helping the child learn a language for what they are experiencing through their behavior. By establishing an interpersonal relationship with the child, I hope to understand their world and use play as a way of resolving psychosocial difficulties and allow for growth and development. I collaborate with my clients to create treatment goals, evaluate progress and decide frequency and length of treatment.

Dr. Ramirez provides high quality empirically supported treatments for clients who struggle with a variety of psychological problems. The goal is to improve the quality of life of clients through the delivery of ethical and effective psychological interventions. Dr. Ramirez provides a supportive therapeutic environment in which people can learn to make changes in their lives that will allow them to become happier, more successful, and more fulfilled.

• Individual Psychotherapy • Couples Counseling • Stress Management • Parent Education: guiding good choices & staying connected with your teen • Consultation • Professional Supervision Therapeutic possibilities include: • Open discussion of your concerns. • Address issues that have been troubling to you, including: relationships, life transitions, sexuality issues, anxiety, depression, money, burnout, grief and loss, recovery from trauma, separation, divorce, parenting, prenatal and postpartum challenges,health and medical issues, visualizing success. Therapy also offers: • Support and help to resolve past experiences by exploring the connections between your personal history and your current experiences. • Explore how your inside process works, and find Self leadership. Discover ways to welcome and connect with all parts of yourself as you learn new options for being available to yourself. I work with adults of all ages 18- 101. Please call if you have any questions. Stress Management For You* A Practical Program To Decrease the Physical and Psychological Symptoms of Stress. You can learn how to deeply relax and change your responses to stress. Increase your sense of control and well being. Learning and practicing skills to elicit the relaxation response is actually easy to do. Taking time to learn mindful relaxation will encourage your own innate capacity for health and wellness. It has been shown repeatedly that relaxationtechniques can: • Reduce hypertension. • Diminish anxiety and fear. • Increase feelings of well-being, comfort and control. • Promote healing and recovery. • Help with insomnia. • Decrease symptoms of PMS. • Decrease infertility. • Help cope with hostility. • Help to prepare for and relax during medical tests, procedures and treatments. • Reduce pain and the use of pain medications. • Reduce nausea/vomiting side effects of chemotherapy. • Reduce stress. • Diminish mild depression. Offering: • Private stress management sessions. • A series of five or eight weekly classes. • A two hour introduction class. • Individually designed classes and workshops to meet the needs of your organization.