My Approach to Helping

What brings you to me and your interpersonal comfort with me are always my first concerns. My hope is to develop a trusting, warm and safe place with you so that you may address your concerns. We may explore your family history, significant relationships, work and career, and values. Together, we may explore your feelings, the way in which you talk to yourself and how you treat yourself. Specific therapeutic issues may involve a challenging relationship, conflicting thoughts and feelings, major life transitions such as marriage or career change, traumas or managing difficult feelings of anger or loss. Whatever concerns emerge, my goal is to help you learn to manage your life more constructively, garner insight about your self and how you relate to the world, and develop a warm and kind internal voice.

More Info About My Practice

I accept most insurances (such as Aetna, BC/BS of WNY, BC/BS nationwide PPO, Cigna, Excellus, Magellan, MVP, Tricare and United Health Care). I have evening and Saturday hours. I take cash, check, credit cards or Health Savings Account credit cards.

Specific Issue(s) I'm Skilled at Helping With

Anxiety, career difficulties, depression, life transitions, relationship issues, sports and performance enhancement, stress

How Psychotherapy Can Help

In its simplest form, psychotherapy helps us to modify how we think, learn to experience and tolerate difficult feelings, and change unconstructive behaviors into more positive alternatives. We learn to develop and identify with a gentle and kind internal voice. All this therapeutic work is done within the context of a warm and supportive relationship.