I have specialized in treating tweens, teens and twenties for the past 6 years, primarily in schools. I also have experience counseling K-5 students and adults. I specialize in problematic school and home behaviors, ADHD, ODD, Autism Spectrum, PTSD, mood disorders, impulse control disorders, trauma, and anxiety in children/teens. I tend to work closely with the school when the child and parents are interested in this type of counseling and will have office hours in Minerva Local School district in addition to my office in North Canton. I also provide family counseling and treat adults with all types of short and long term concerns including grief, family changes, stage of life concerns, trauma, depression, and anxiety. Generally counseling focuses on building positive habits, changing problematic behaviors, and improving coping skills, communication skills and anger management skills. I work with each client to find their treatment goals and help them to achieve these goals. Being a teen or a parent today can be stressful and overwhelming. It is often helpful to have someone outside the family unit to talk to about stressors and to get new ideas and solutions to problems. Often teens say they don't want to go to counseling but end up really enjoying the experience and not wanting it to end. The hardest part is the phone call.