Sally Gousse

You may be navigating a season of life where anxiety, depression, stress, or relationship difficulties are making it harder to feel like yourself. Perhaps you are carrying the emotional weight of motherhood, working through painful experiences from your past, or trying to understand how your relationships and responsibilities are affecting your wellbeing. I work with adults experiencing anxiety, depression, stress management, maternal mental health concerns, and relationship issues. These experiences can also intersect with family concerns, women’s issues, trauma, or PTSD, particularly when what you are going through feels connected to both your current circumstances and experiences from your past. Therapy can give you a space to slow down, feel understood, and make sense of what you have been carrying. Together, we can build on your strengths, develop healthier ways of coping, and work toward feeling more grounded, confident, and connected in your life.

Our work will make room for both the person you are and the relationships, responsibilities, experiences, and transitions that have shaped you. We’ll explore how anxiety, depression, stress, maternal mental health concerns, and relationship issues may be affecting your emotional wellbeing while also considering how the people and circumstances around you may be influencing what you are experiencing. I may use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help you recognize patterns in thoughts and behaviors that contribute to anxiety, depression, or stress and develop more helpful ways of responding, Trauma Focused CBT and Cognitive Processing Therapy to help you understand and process difficult experiences while changing beliefs that may be keeping you stuck, and EMDR when appropriate to help you work through distressing experiences that continue to affect you in the present. Narrative Therapy can help you examine the stories you have developed about yourself and your experiences, Motivational Interviewing can help you explore change without pressure, and Solution Focused Brief Therapy can help identify your strengths and turn your goals into practical steps forward. For relationship and family concerns, Behavioral and Solution Focused Couples Therapy can help improve communication, strengthen connection, and create healthier patterns within important relationships. Our sessions will be collaborative, affirming, and grounded in the reality of your life rather than expecting you to fit into a predetermined version of therapy.

You do not need to have everything figured out before coming to therapy. During our first few sessions, we will take time to understand what brought you here, what has been most difficult lately, and what you hope will feel different in your life. Together, we will identify goals that feel meaningful and realistic and decide where it makes the most sense to begin. You can expect me to listen with warmth and curiosity, meet you where you are, and create a space where you can talk openly without feeling judged. Progress may look like feeling less overwhelmed by anxiety or depression, finding healthier ways to manage stress, feeling more supported and confident as you navigate motherhood, improving communication and connection in your relationships, or processing past experiences so they have less influence over your present. We will continue checking in on your goals and adjust our work as your needs evolve. My goal is for therapy to feel both supportive and practical, giving you a space to feel understood while also helping you create meaningful change in your everyday life.