The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.
-- Tony Robbins
Therapy Services
Thalia provides psychological treatment or counseling for children, couples, families and individual adults from the Charlevoix, Petoskey and Northwest Michigan area.
Your choice of teletherapy or in-person sessions for those who are fully vaccinated. Children under age 9 cannot be seen until they can be vaccinated or until the risk of pandemic COVID-19 transmission has abated.
Thalia uses an integrative therapeutic mod.el, incorporating many theoretical perspectives and techniques to tailor treatment to individual needs. We are all unique and therapy should never apply a fixed system to clients' singular blend of characteristics, experiences and circumstances.
Among her resources are cognitive behavioral; object relations; solution-focused; art therapy; play therapy; reality; person-centered; dialectical behavior; family systems; integrative; Gottman method,; trauma focused; sand tray; mindfulness; narrative and other types of treatment.
The butterfly counts not months but moments
and has time enough.
-- Rabindranath Tagore
Thalia sees individual adults, children, couples and families. Appointments are usually 45 to 60 minutes long. Day and evening hours are generally available.
Some Examples of Adult Problems Treated:
depression, anxiety, relationship issues including communication and conflict resolution problems, adult children of alcoholics, co-dependency, physical, emotional and sexual abuse, anger, grief and loss, divorce adjustment and many others.
Some Examples of Chilren's Problems Treated:
separation anxiety, school phobia, divorce adjustment, behavior problems, sibling rivalry, anger/tantrums, poor self-esteem, social skills deficiencies, depression, anxiety, adjusting to change and many more.
Thalia has a sub-specialty in divorce and separation related problems, including child custody/parenting time evaluations and advice, co-parenting issues, step-family dynamics. She is trained as a Neutral Mental Health Professional in Collaborative Divorce cases.