Ann Berkley

Are you fearful, cynicall or distrusting of therapy? Please allow me to tell you what you won’t and will encounter, if you decide to embark on a counseling journey with me. I will not ask you to spend countless hours recounting painful or even traumatic past experiences which cause you anxiety or paralyzing suffering. I won’t sit above you and judgingly notate your feelings on paper, offering little more than nods and platitudes in exchange for your vulnerability. What I do propose, is the opportunity to combine forces. You are the expert on you and an equal part in your healing! Through collaboration, we will unmask the entrenched lies that you thought were keeping you safe but instead are keeping you stuck.

I bring evidence-backed theoretical approaches including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which seek to transform your thoughts and reframe your situations, so that you become equipped with applicable skills to arrest panic, shame, loneliness, negative self-image, grief and depression.

Therapy is relational but it is goal oriented too. It is my hope for you that counseling will be a safe place in which you: develop coping mechanisms; create unshakable inner peace, cultivate compassion and forgiveness and are released from abusive and/or addictive patterns. Freedom starts now, and it's about time!