My Approach to Helping
Making the decision to enter therapy is an important one. I commend you for taking this first step. I enjoy working with adults who wish to focus on the intricacies of their lives, thus creating opportunities for personal growth. I work with all adults and specialize in working with people who identify as LGBTQA+. I am a member of WPATH (The World Association for Transgender Health). My approach is to listen and learn. I learn about your life experiences and concerns you have, and then we develop a plan of goals you would like to accomplish. I utilize a strength-based ideology that focuses on what is going well in your life, and then leverages the resources you have to navigate life challenges; it is a collaborative process. I often use relational and attachment frameworks in my practice, and feel that appropriately placed humor can help in the healing process. Working together, we can learn to identify patterns and triggers while expanding our coping skills.
I have over 30 years' experience working in the field of mental health, ranging from working in an early intervention program with medically fragile babies, directing a Healthy Families home visiting program, supervising an outpatient clinic, and supervising both child and adolescent psychiatric units in a major Boston area hospital. As a therapist, I have worked with children, adolescents, adults, and couples. In my free time, I enjoy being in nature, walking my rescue dogs, and gardening. I look forward to working with you.