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Is the weight of being the strong one in your family becoming difficult to manage? To the world everything looks perfect. But on the inside everything is far from okay. You are overwhelmed.

You are the one in your family who made it. You have checked off all the proverbial boxes of success in life, but you still feel a vast emptiness. It’s hard for you to enjoy your success, feel joy, and know what makes you happy because stress, anxiety keeps you up at night. The years are flying by quick. You know the time to change is now.

If you have reached the point where you desire to thrive in life, and not just survive, I am the therapist who can help you gain the skills and tools to reclaim your life today.

I am super passionate about helping improve the mental health of people in their thirties and above who are entering, or living in the second half of life.

At this hectic age, many face hard life issues they need help with like: Is it time continue punching a clock on start my own business? Should I stay in this marriage? Is it even too late for me to even have a family? Do I put my Mom into a nursing home, or do I continue to keep the promise of keeping her out of a nursing home?

Generation X’ers and Xeninals are often forgotten in the mental health space. The goal of my practice is to help address this gap.

With over eighteen years of experience using relatable and clinical approaches, I am a therapist committed to fill a void in mental health for this forgotten generation.

Change is possible at this stage of life!





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Living in the second half

Therapist for your second half Providing online therapy for New Jersey residents

Call or text 646 859-0125 to schedule your appointment

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Call 646 859-0125 to schedule your appointment

““The job of the therapist is to help people acknowledge, experience, and bear the reality of life with all of the pleasures and heartbreak. People can never get better without knowing what they know and feeling what they feel”.”
— Bessel Van Der Kolk, The Body Keeps Score

Individual Psychotherapy

In individual therapy together we will work closely to form a comfortable and therapeutic relationship. I provide a safe judgment free zone to help you learn more about yourself, grow, and heal.

Together we will work on addressing your current struggles, explore and unpack how your past plays a role in your present life. As we work together, you are always at the center because you are the expert in your life.

Therapy, especially at the beginning is hard work! I have tremendous respect for you as you're taking the first steps towards healing.

I specialize in helping people with issues such as:

Depression and anxiety that keeps you up at night and unable to be your best self

Trauma from childhood physical abuse, emotional neglect, or recent events such as diagnosis of a new medical condition, or accident

Grappling with workplace stressors, imposter syndrome, and micro-aggressions

Stages of life transitions such as milestone birthdays, empty nest, and ending of a relationship

Couples Therapy

Using the Gottman method in couples therapy, I help Black and Interracial couples get unstuck. I help them recover from emotional and physical infidelity, learn how to address conflict, and learn how to communicate effectively to reconnect. We will work together help you identify the patterns, such a childhood trauma that keeps you from connecting with your partner.

The first session of couples counseling will be together as a couple to learn about the challenges that bring you into therapy.

The next session will be one- on- one, to allow me the opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of your individual upbringing, and other dynamics that may play a role in present challenges.

After making an assessment about the appropriateness for couples therapy, we will return to couples sessions.

Call or text 646-859-0125 to schedule your appointment

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I look forward to connecting with you! Please contact me at 646 859-0125 or email me at therapyfor@livinginthesecondhalf.com to schedule a free 15- minute consultation.

If you're seeking to use your health insurance for therapy, please note that I accept Cigna, Lyra EAP, Atena, NJ Horizon and UnitedHealthcare. For other insurance policies I'm an out-of-network provider.

That means you’re responsible for the fees at the time of our appointment and depending on your plan, and deductibles you need to meet, a percentage of what you pay for therapy may be paid directly back to you by your insurance company.

To help my clients at the end of each month a super-bill will be provided to you to send to your insurance for possible reimbursement.

I encourage you to call the member services number on the back of your insurance card to find out what your “out-of-network” benefit may be.

The cost of the individual initial session is $160 for 60 minutes. Ongoing sessions are $150 for 45 minutes

The cost of initial couples sessions is $300 for 90 minutes. Ongoing sessions are $250 for 60 minutes

I offer online video Telehealth sessions from the comfort of your home, office, or other preferred location. My existing and new clients experience with Telehealth has been positive and now preferred option. With the costly added stress of securing child or elder care to attend sessions, NJ traffic, gas prices I shifted my practice to exclusive support clients online. This also means I see clients who reside all over NJ. This is important as many people before I shifted to Telehealth could not get help from me because they lived too far to attend in -person sessions. You now can have a session while the baby naps, during your lunch break, or before you start your work day.

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Call 646 859-0125 to schedule your appointment

This picture was the first time in several weeks I was able to workout.⠀ ⠀ Because of two surgeries I needed in the past several weeks in my fertility journey, I couldn’t do much physical activity as I recovered. ⠀ ⠀ Interestingly I will share
#JusticeforElijahMcClain Illustration by @mattymillerstudio I just heard about the murder of Elijah last night when @healwithalece shared on her IG stories. I broke down in tears this morning because I thought I had a nightmare. But I didn’t.
1865-2020, much has changed but clearly, we still have far to go. In this time of civil unrest, as Black people continue to fight to be treated as full members of society, many of us are in deep pain. ⠀ ⠀ The Washington Post had an article stating si
Collectively many are struggling. We wake up to another video of the killing of a Black Man, Rayshard Brooks after a police involved incident in Atlanta. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Dealing with the emotional impact of the two pandemics we are living through, COVID a