Psychotherapy Approach

Therapeutic Focus: Individuals

Therapeutic Specialties: Anxiety, Trauma, Abuse (sexual, verbal, physical, spiritual), Grief, Long-term depth work for insight and understanding of self, Sexual Issues, Vocational Development, Artist Recovery, Story Work and Integration

Therapeutic Orientation: Psychodynamic, Psychoanalytic, Object Relations, Attachment

It is my belief we are made to be in deep and meaningful relationship both with ourselves and others. This search can be both a delight and struggle because relationships are often the source of our greatest joy and deepest pain. However, most of us tend to operate on autopilot allowing our unconscious mind to repeat patterns that can be harmful to others and ourselves.

Although we will spend much time addressing the specific issues that bring you to psychotherapy, we will also look at the nature of your relationship with other significant people in your life. In our work together, we will focus on: affect and emotion, distressing thoughts and feelings, past experiences, recurring themes and patterns, wishes and dreams, interpersonal relations, and the nature of the therapeutic relationship.

My work is relationally oriented and focuses on creating positive and lasting change in your life. This will help you identify and work through areas in your life that lead to destructive relationships and a sense of being stuck. I will help you look simultaneously at the best and worst in you, allowing you to operate out of a foundation of truth and understanding in which grounded decisions can be made. That which can be named can be healed. When we have the courage to look inward in the presence of an empathetic other we experience the true freedom of psychotherapy. That freedom is awareness and choice.

Growth and healing are often paradoxical. Things die and new life comes. We weep and then joy breaks. We find the courage to hold hope and it breaks our hearts. When we choose to look at the truth of our stories and assess the impact they have on our lives we are then able to rebuild and imagine new life, perhaps for the first time.