Our Services
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Individual Therapy
Focus Forward offers long-term and short-term therapy and works collaboratively with individuals to highlight strengths, and foster empowerment, independence, control, awareness, and acceptance.
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Relationship Therapy
Focus Forward offers therapy for relationships, who may be experiencing a crisis (infidelity, low commitment, high conflict, etc.) or who may be looking for some routine maintenance and support from an unbiased third party.
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Life Coaching
Focus Forward offers one-to-one life coaching tailored to your goals & needs. Focus Forward intends to maximize personal and professional potential by setting goals, encouraging outcomes, and managing personal change.
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Corporate Wellness & Consultation
Focus Forward offers customized consulting and/or pre-made Professional Development workshops to companies big and small to help them better understand organizational patterns/problems and recommend solutions.
Individual Therapy
Focus Forward assists clients with a multitude of goals and presenting stressors. Some presenting problems may include but are not limited to burnout, relationship stress, boundary setting, low motivation, low self-esteem, anxiety, depression, sexual dysfunction, and life transitions. Through our work, individuals can expect to gain insight and awareness of the patterns and constraints that may be keeping them stuck. This awareness can be gained through exploring one's value system, family of origin, relationship history, and relationship to the presenting problem.
I have experience working with clients ages 4 to 76 with many ethnic, religious, sexual orientation, socioeconomic, and gender backgrounds. I have extended experience working with clients who struggle to set boundaries with work, friends, and family and who struggle to maintain a life balance between work, hobbies, social life, and their health goals & expectations. I enjoy working with individuals as they navigate their life transitions, whether that may be a recent move to the city, a breakup, a new job, a baby on the way, or an identity transition between roles or generations. I also enjoy working with individuals navigating relationship- stuckness, fears, and expectations. I enjoy empowering clients to identify goals, set boundaries, and take control of aspects of their lives in a world that can be unpredictable and uncertain.
Many relationships seek counseling to align with each other's goals, increase connection, address infidelity or parenting stress, increase intimacy, navigate financial stress and build communication skills. Focus Forward hopes to increase the relationship’s awareness of patterns of behavior that may be contributing to at least one person feeling disconnected, misunderstood, or unseen.
Focus Forward works hard to keep the system balanced by making partners feel like the therapist is not taking sides; the alliance is towards the relatioship, not one member of the system. The goal in our therapy is to help clients better understand the dynamics within the relationship and bring these patterns/dynamics to their attention so they can be shifted. Relationship work is about shared goals, shared responsibility, and accountability; all partners have behaviors and actions that they can fine-tune.
Whether you are about to move in with each other, get married, or have a baby, it never hurts to have an unbiased third party that can help you develop the tools you and your partner(s) need to manage some chaos or stress. Relationship work can be preventative! You go to the doctor for a routine check-up, why does therapy need to be any different? It is nice to have a third party you trust, so when a crisis does hit, a therapist already knows the ins and outs of your relationship history, your strengths, and the tools you have to fall back on.
I have experience working with partners with different cultural backgrounds and LGBTQUIA+ and poly/kink relationships. Whether you are looking to strengthen your relationship, improve your sex life, navigate a recent crisis, or better understand your and your partner's needs and expectations, Focus Forward is here to help guide you.
Relationship Therapy
Life Coaching
What is the difference between Life Coaching and Therapy?
I like to think about Coaching as “Life Maintenance.” Coaching tends to be shorter-term work designed for individuals who want to make a change in their lifestyle to reach their maximum potential. These clients might be feeling stuck, unsure of how to make changes, or in need of additional motivation that can help hold them accountable. Psychotherapy treats mental illness and often explores the past to understand the present stressors, mindset, reduce symptomology, and achieve goals. Coaching does not treat, cure, or prevent any mental illness and tends to be focused more on the present and future. Both coaching and psychotherapy are client-centered, goal-orientated, and grounded in empirical-based interventions.
Coaching with a licensed psychotherapist is beneficial. The intensive training, research, and face-to-face experience needed to become a licensed practitioner allow these particular life coaches to pull from empirically based wellness tools and models to help clients lift constraints to change and make decisions and choices that are aligned with their values and goals. Understanding systems theory and motivation will aid in creating a long-lasting, sustainable change while being cognisant of mental health.
Clients who seek out Coaching with Focus Forward might be interested but are not limited to:
Executive Coaching
Enhanced Communication Skills
Leadership Development
Assertiveness Skills
Team Synergy
Work Life Balance Skills
Motivational Skills
Greater Job Satisfaction
Relationship Coaching
Better Personal relationships
Felt Stuckness and Considering Divorce
Communication Skills
Relationship Ambivalence
Transition to Parenthood or Empty Nesting
Personal Coaching
Self Growth & Insight
Confidence in Self & Decision Making
Work Life Balance
Healthier Personal Narrative
Career Selection
Life Transitions
Focus Forward can assist organizational change at every level of the system. This can include the executive level, HR level, and employee level. When it comes to organizational involvement, Focus Forward has two main models.
Customized Consultation Model
This customized model is a package that includes an initial consultation to understand the organization's history of the situation/problem, current goals around the problem, and will include a customized survey to better understand the problem. Based on the assessment, Focus Forward will offer a customized proposal with recommendations on how the system may implement change to achieve the desired goal. This service is designed to help the organization identify the problem and provide solutions. Clients can take the assessment/consultation and proposed solutions and choose to implement change on their own, or can hire Focus Forward to collaboratively implement the recommended solutions.
Some target areas include, but are not limited to:
Low retention
Low motivation
Low reported work culture
Employee satisfaction
Workshop & Development Model
This model includes an initial consultation to understand the presenting problem and desired goals. For companies that have identified the problem within their organization, Focus Forward offers a variety of modules and workshops grounded in research that could meet a variety of company goals including:
Communication breakdowns
Employee burnout
Team building
Conflict resolution
Emotional intelligence professional development
Adjunctive services:
Following workshops and professional development services, Focus Forward can offer follow-up assessments and consultation, and can continue to work with leadership to create longer-lasting change.