Approach.

I work to help people feel better and address their specific reasons for coming to therapy. I strive to listen attentively and provide a safe environment to share what’s on one’s mind and to decide together how to address one’s concerns in therapy. In this process, I aim to help people get what they want out of therapy. I also typically work to help people find relief from their emotional distress, to feel connected to and enlivened by their feelings, to gain a deeper understanding of their challenges, and to feel more self-aligned. By knowing oneself more deeply, both on the level of feeling and thinking, one can develop greater clarity on themselves and what matters most to them.

This approach to therapy is called psychodynamic. In my approach, I incorporate many principles from AEDP and have also been trained in other modalities such as CBT, ACT, and DBT. I sometimes draw from these modalities when someone may benefit from developing coping skills to deal with life’s ups and downs as they work towards their goals for therapy.

I also welcome people to bring up issues of race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender identity, pertinent political issues as well as any other aspects of their culture or themselves they wish to share, explore, or better understand in therapy.