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

My Approach to Helping

Life, distilled, is about how you handle your relationships with other people. (Good) therapy, distilled, is a collaboration between two people with a common goal: to close the gap between who you are now and who you want to be. I work very interactively with my patients so that, together, we can create the right kind of therapy experience to transform them. Many of my patients are therapy "veterans" who were underwhelmed by their past experience in therapy --finding it awkward, stagnant, or, frankly, boring-- and are now interested in doing a different, more active, kind of work on themselves. I use my training in relational psychoanalysis, as well as my strong interest in Buddhist psychology, to specialize in working with people --usually smart, creative, somewhat unconventional people-- who want to ask themselves meaningful questions and address core identity issues. I see your decision to start therapy as a commitment to yourself to live more consciously, to get to know what matters to you instead of getting stuck on what's expected of you. To help you get there I listen, ask questions, interpret...and say what I really think.

 

More Info About My Practice

I am considered an out-of-network provider for all insurance companies, but am not in-network with any specific company.
Regular session rate = $195.

Services I Provide

• Individual Therapy & Counseling
• Marriage, Couples, or Relationship Counseling
• Coaching
• Other

Ages I Work With

• Teens
• Adults

Languages I Speak

• English

Groups I Work With

Therapy skeptics; therapy veterans; actors, artists, writers, creative people/the process-oriented; people in transition; people who are about to be famous; idiosyncratic folks & weirdos; the Buddhism-curious

Therapy Approaches I Use

• Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy
• Body-Mind Psychotherapy
• Breathwork
• Client-Directed Outcome-Informed Therapy
• Contemplative Psychotherapy
• Dreamwork & Dream Analysis
• Emotional Transformation Therapy
• Energy Psychology
• Existential Psychotherapy
• Family Attachment Narrative Therapy
• Focalizing
• Hakomi
• Healing Touch
• Holistic Psychotherapy
• Humanistic Psychology
• Integration of different therapy models
• Interpersonal Psychotherapy
• Mindfulness Based Approaches
• Narrative Therapy
• Object Relations
• Other - Not Listed Here
• Person Centered / Rogerian
• Process Oriented Psychology
• Psychoanalysis / Modern Psychoanalysis
• Psychodynamic
• Relational Psychotherapy
• Self Acceptance Training
• Shamanic Journeying / Psychoshamanic
• Systems Theory /Therapy
• Transactional Analysis
• Transpersonal Psychotherapy

Concerns & Issues I Help With

• Identity Issues
• Attachment
• Trauma
• Abuse: Emotional, Physical, or Sexual
• Addictions & Compulsions
• Life Changes
• Social Skills & Problems
• Emotion Management
• Anxiety, Fear, & Stress
• Depression & Mood
• Family Problems
• Occupational & Academic Issues
• Relationships & Marriage
• Self-Esteem & Confidence
• Childhood & Adolescence
• Sexuality
• Reproduction
• Spirituality
• Health & Body