Helping People Find Therapists & Advocating for Ethical and Healthy Therapy & Marriage Counseling Practices

My Approach to Helping

People arrive at a therapists door having tried their best way of getting along in the world. This is true, regardless of ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, socioeconomic circumstances and so forth. Distress in relationships results in suffering, confusion and unhappiness. Often, our relational troubles are embedded in our earliest relationships. In therapy, I help individuals understand how early and formative relationships with parents, siblings and significant others, impacts relationship styles ad troubles in the here and now. A solid and true therapeutic relationship offers deep familiarity with one's own mind, which is germane to cultivating an internal sense of security, agency, self esteem and positive emotions. This potent amalgam of deepened internal security, self esteem, agency and positive emotions, has the capacity to move and sustain us and our relationships over the long haul. Relationship sustainability.

 

Services I Provide

• Individual Therapy & Counseling
• Marriage, Couples, or Relationship Counseling
• Family Therapy
• Group Therapy
• Consultation
• Online Counseling / Phone Therapy

Ages I Work With

• Teens
• Adults
• Elders

Languages I Speak

• English

Groups I Work With

Currently, I treat adolescents, the college age population and adults in my psychotherapy practice. A predictable consequence of modern family positioned in today's supersonic technological world, is a fact that parents, extended family and educators are stretched thin, leaving them with less time to foster the next generation. This becomes quite clear in the clinical presentation of college students I see in my practice. In a nut shell, many individuals have not received the psychological resources from parents and others earlier on, to successively launch themselves in college. I find my role as psychotherapist to this age group an interesting mix of part therapist, part auxiliary parental figure, part coach/mentor. Symptoms concerning identity, sexuality, relational issues, study and work conflicts and/or inhibitions and self initiative are but a few issues which are relevant to the young adult's development. Negotiation of these developmental milestones in the therapeutic relationship, increases an individual's internal sense of security, competence and agency and thus, the potential for the college student to be successful now at the academy and later, in his or her life. College and young adulthood(every age) is an optimal time to engage in psychological work. What's truly exciting is learning through the filed of neuroscience how our brains continue to grow throughout our lives. This means we can evolve our minds at any age, if we desire. When we familiarize ourselves with our own minds at the deepest level, we can access our deepest selves and it is here at our core, where we happen into that which stirs and sustains us (our relationships) most profoundly over the long haul.

Therapy Approaches I Use

• Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy
• Parent Work
• Parent-Child Interaction Therapy
• Psychodynamic
• Relational Psychotherapy

Concerns & Issues I Help With

• Occupational & Academic Issues
• Life Changes
• Family Problems
• Childhood & Adolescence
• Health & Body
• Emotion Management
• Social Skills & Problems
• Anxiety, Fear, & Stress
• Attachment
• Relationships & Marriage
• Depression & Mood
• Identity Issues
• Sexuality
• Self-Esteem & Confidence