My Approach to Helping

Therapy is a collaboration between the therapist and client. It is a co-created experience. I value mutuality, authenticity and transparency. I work to create a safe accepting non-judgemental environment. The therapeutic relationship is an important vehicle for change. Psychotherapy expands awareness and understanding and allows for a full range of feelings to be experienced. I work to help my clients feel their emotional lives in doses that they can tolerate and integrate. In a supportive psychotherapeutic environment feeling deeply into ones life can act as a "vaccine" allowing the client to tolerate those feelings, thoughts and experiences better in ones actual life. The goal of therapy is to bring this greater sense of consciousness into ones life in order to create choice points for new, more useful and fulfilling ways of being in the world.

 

More Info About My Practice

I have a sliding fee scale that is determined early on by myself and the client. I am fully licensed in the field of Social Work and therefor I am eligible for insurance reimburement.

 

My View on the Purpose of Psychotherapy

The purpose of therapy is to expand awareness and understanding so that one can bring greater consciousness into their everyday lives in order to make choices rather than be at the affect of organized patterns of reactioning

 

What I Love about Being a Psychotherapist

I see therapy as a culturally subversive endeavor. In a over stimulated, compulsive mechanized world therapy stands for the sanctity of the interior experience and the human condition. Therapy provides a safe quiety place to reconnect to ones inner world and allows and encourages the person to step into their full humanness

Services I Provide

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

Ages I Work With

• Teens
• Adults
• Elders

Languages I Speak

• English

Therapy Approaches I Use

• Art Therapy
• Body-Mind Psychotherapy
• Core Energetics
• Depth Therapy
• Dreamwork & Dream Analysis
• Existential Psychotherapy
• Gestalt Therapy
• Humanistic Psychology
• Object Relations
• Psychoanalysis / Modern Psychoanalysis
• Psychodynamic
• Relational Psychotherapy
• Self Relations

Concerns and Issues I Help With

• Abandonment
• Abuse / Abuse Survivor Issues
• Academic Concerns
• Addictions & Compulsions
• Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions
• Aggression & Violence
• Aging & Geriatric Issues
• Anger
• Anxiety
• Attachment Issues
• Batterer Intervention
• Bipolar
• Blended Family Issues
• Child and/or Adolescent Issues
• Codependency / Dependency
• Communication Problems
• Control Issues
• Depression
• Disability
• Dissociation
• Divorce / Divorce Adjustment
• Domestic Violence
• Drug & Alcohol Addiction
• Emotional Abuse
• Emotional Intelligence
• Emotional Overwhelm
• Emptiness
• Family of Origin Issues
• Family Problems
• Fear
• Forgiveness
• Grief, Loss, & Bereavement
• Health / Illness / Medical Issues
• Helplessness / Victimhood
• Identity Issues
• Inadequacy
• Inattention, Impulsivity, & Hyperactivity (ADHD)
• Individuation
• Infidelity / Affair Recovery
• Irritability
• Learning Difficulties
• Life Purpose / Meaning / Inner-Guidance
• Men's Issues
• Midlife Crisis / Midlife Transition
• Oppositional & Defiant Behavior in Children & Teens
• Panic
• Parenting
• Phobias
• Post Partum Depression
• Pre-Marital Counseling
• Relationships & Marriage
• Self-Care
• Self-Confidence
• Self-Criticism
• Self-Doubt
• Self-Esteem
• Self-Harm
• Self-Love
• Sensitivity to Criticism
• Sexual Abuse
• Sexuality / Sex Therapy
• Shame
• Social Anxiety / Phobia
• Spirituality
• Stress
• Suicidal Ideation & Behavior
• Trust Issues
• Workplace Issues
• Worry