The therapeutic relationship can provide a place of deep connection to reflect on your path in life, past, present and future, and to improve your sense of self through the caring of a therapist. As an interactive and experienced psychologist, my treatment approach is to provide support and practical feedback to help clients address current life challenges and long-standing conflicts. My approach is collaborative and open, thoughtfully considering resources, obstacles, expectations, and possible approaches to accomplishing goals. With compassion and understanding gained from over 21 years of experience, I help individuals find a new path to resolving a wide range of personal concerns and psychological issues.
With an integration of contemporary approaches, I draw from a variety of methodologies and techniques to incorporate what is most helpful for each individual. In a comfortable and supportive atmosphere, I offer a highly personalized approach tailored to each of my clients individual needs to help them attain the personal growth they’re striving for. Together with each client, I work to identify the source of current struggles, develop strengths and achieve life goals. Effective psychotherapy should result in an improved quality of life, better relationships, more control of the decisions in your life, and increased feelings of self-esteem.
In general, people find therapy to be most useful when therapists are responsive, engaged, and offer feedback – regardless of the therapists’ orientation. Also, many people who have been in therapy, or interviewed different therapists, report that they feel most comfortable and have better results when there is a good match between therapist and patient. Whether the match is good can be determined by whether the patient likes and feels comfortable with the therapist and whether the therapist has experience and training in treating the problem at hand. What can therapy do and why does it work? Therapy can help people in many ways, for example: empowering them, increasing self-awareness and understanding of others and relationships, diffusing conflict and painful feelings, teaching interpersonal and coping skills, facilitating problem-solving, allowing self-expression, and changing unhealthy patterns.
Concerns for which people contact me include:
- life transitions, such as new parenthood, empty nests, retirement, job changes, losses, coping with illness grief and bereavement
- relationship difficulties
- depression
- anxiety
- academic difficulties
- feelings of emptiness and being lost
- lack of connection and meaning in relationships and work
- feelings of resentment and regret
- learning to be a more effective communicator
- assertiveness