Greetings and welcome to my website. My name is Molly and I am glad you are making the decision to become a more self aware and much happier individual. I want to start by saying please be very careful when choosing a therapist. There are several therapists out there who are incompetent and even harmful to their clients. If you are looking to make a deeply transformative and positive change in your life, then you have come to the right place. Please understand that I alone cannot "fix" anyone. I can give you the tools to help you grow, but you must be ready to make the changes before therapy can be of service to you. You must be ready to make an investment in yourself. You deserve it!

I work primarily from an integrative therapeutic approach. In my practice this includes cognitive behavioral therapy and existential therapy. Existentialism states that you do not simply exist, but rather continuously decide what your existence will be, who you will become in the next moment. Existentialisim is about self-determination and the will to overcome. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is very popular and effective. It is based on the idea that our thoughts cause our feelings and behaviors, not external things, like people, situations, and events.

I also practice something called cognitive restructuring. The cognitive restructuring theory states that your own unrealistic beliefs are directly responsible for generating key dysfunctional emotions and their behaviors such as stress, depression, anxiety, and social withdrawal. The human mind is capable of overcoming negative thoughts and emotions by learning to dismantle the unrealistic beliefs that have given them life. 

For example, one may set unachievable goals...."Everyone must love me; I have to be thoroughly competent; I have to be the best in everything". When you set a goal such as this, a fear of failure results. Cognitive restructuring then advises you to change such irrational beliefs and substitute more rational ones: "I can fail, although it would be nice, I don't have to be the best at everything."

While in therapy with me, I will teach you the skills to manage your emotions and in turn take control of your life. It does not happen overnight, but it does happen. A great deal of my therapeutic techniques have to do with teaching you how to regain your life and live it to the fullest. I will teach you how to recognize your patterns, which can be negative, repetitive and even destructive if they remain untreated. 


 WHILE IN THERAPY WITH ME YOU WILL:

1. Discover and work on negative patterns in your life and turn them into positive ones.
2. Learn to limit your reliance on other people and begin to look to yourself for validation. 
3. Learn how to become aware of your own thoughts and how to change them into positive and realistic thoughts.
4. Learn you how to manage your emotions and therefore control your environment.
5. Learn to develop flexible, self-enhancing beliefs and attitudes toward yourself, others, and the world around you.
6. Learn to address your past with a view to how it may be effecting your present day beliefs and behaviors.
7. Learn to try new and things out for yourself and practice new ways of thinking and acting.
8. Learn cognitive restructuring in an effort to further work on reframing the faulty ideas that what has happened in your life comes down to failures, instead of learning experiences that you can and do grow from.