Clinicians who offer sliding scale payment structures may offer lower or reduced fees based on an individual's ability to pay. Please contact this clinician for more details regarding their fees or sliding scale policy.
What's My Approach to Therapy?
Are you challenged in finding the right fit? You can trust me to be genuine, direct, and honest in helping clients and supervisees. I am a deeply caring human being who has built a small group practice with trusted associates who, at some point, trained under me. I am also a professor, teaching psychotherapy and supervision with many years of experience. With myself or my associates, the therapy is respectful and collaborative. We base our work on the research about the importance of therapy relationships, the need clients have to feel heard, understood, and respected, to have their autonomy supported, and to feel hopeful. This hope comes from our knowledge of how to help and the willingness to be transparent about it. We aim to strengthen the skills you will need to navigate other struggles you may face in the future, not to be mysterious or have you dependent on the help. We are trained in recognizing when trauma has created problematic ways of coping, and are careful not to stir up bad feelings and leave you feeling vulnerable and unsafe in an initial call, nor in sessions.
Therapy goals should be decided together, but with therapists who are clear on what their view is of well-being, and what their role and process are in helping you reach goals. With us, you are likely to feel safe and supported in therapy, clearly moving towards change. We welcome feedback to make sure you are getting what you need.
As a university counseling and psychotherapy instructor and current supervisor, I am well aware of the research on what is effective in psychotherapy, regardless of a therapist's style. I know what facilitates real change. In order to help you develop to your full potential and to get through tricky times, I will listen to you to help determine the right choice of therapist, or make suggestions if someone in my practice is not a good fit. I respect your time. I understand the importance of a good fit.
You will find me and my associates open-minded and easy to talk to. My personal background has been colorful, and my path a winding one. I have grown to understand and accept people from all walks of life, and tend to connect really well with people who feel they have often been misunderstood, especially creative and gifted people. I am easy to trust and feel safe with, as I do not hide my emotions or play the passive or neutral therapist. I have modeled this genuineness with my supervisees and selected associates who show the same characteristics. If this resonates with you and you need my help or support, please reach out today or check our website.
