Would you like to feel more in control of your daily life? Are there habits, patterns, thoughts or situations that you are looking to change or improve? Would you like to make your strengths work for you?
Throughout our lives, there are times when managing relationships, career issues, or family is easy, and other times when it may seem overwhelming. At those more difficult times, we can end up feeling anxious, depressed, helpless, or lost. These feelings can be a sign that it is time to find new ways to cope. With support, stressful events can become opportunities to closely examine and change the way you are approaching the challenges in your life. Change is an process that involves courage, flexibility, insight and new abilities. Fortunately, with the right help, we can make changes that lead to more fulfilling and rewarding relationships, careers, and family lives, and a sense of control and accomplishment that we can carry with us to future challenges.
A decision to seek therapy is not an easy one. I provide a warm, supportive, and comfortable atmosphere to help my clients feel secure in sharing their concerns and issues. It is my goal to be by your side and enable you to discover how unhealthy patterns developed and how they operate, and to help you build new patterns that reduce your anxieties and troubles, and build life satisfaction.
I have over 15 years of experience working with adolescents, adults and couples on a variety of issues, like depression, anxiety, addictive behavior and relationship conflicts. By imparting insight and effective learning strategies, I help people trapped in unproductive and unsuccessful behaviors to improve their health and enhance their relationships and work lives. I help people find the motivation and confidence to prepare to make healthy changes, and to maintain these changes in their lives.
Allison Dorlen Pastor, Ph.D. 