Collaborate and work to empower you to make the positive changes that allow you to reach your fullest potential, one session at a time. You will gain greater personal insight into your emotional experience, promote healing, and create change.
Collaborate and work to empower you to make the positive changes that allow you to reach your fullest potential, one session at a time. You will gain greater personal insight into your emotional experience, promote healing, and create change.
I specialize in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Solution Focused treatment along with incorporating aspects of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) such as distress tolerance and mindfulness practices.
Get acquainted with you and your concerns. I will listen well to you as a unique person and focus on what you want to be better in your life. Then the homework begins. Things get better when you begin to apply new ideas and behaviors to your life.
Get acquainted with you and your concerns. I will listen well to you as a unique person and focus on what you want to be better in your life. Then the homework begins. Things get better when you begin to apply new ideas and behaviors to your life.
I don't waste your time, but I do want to get a thorough understanding of your situation before I make action suggestions that will make things better. By the third or forth session, you should be able to tell that things are getting better for you.
. . . . discover the real connections in your life; the opportunities for you to become a stronger, healthier, more virtuous person; how well you relate to self, others, and the world; and how you can be THE agent in all you think, feel, and do.
. . . . discover the real connections in your life; the opportunities for you to become a stronger, healthier, more virtuous person; how well you relate to self, others, and the world; and how you can be THE agent in all you think, feel, and do.
While I value the exploration of our motives, wishes, desires, hopes, and fears, and while I am very much a relationally-based clinician, I like to be practical and focus on the "now what?" of people's issues. Together we get to discover "the way."
We will work as a team to figure out what you want to achieve. I may be an expert in Mental Health but you are the expert of your life.
We will work as a team to figure out what you want to achieve. I may be an expert in Mental Health but you are the expert of your life.
I specialize in time limited evidence based psychotherapy. That means I want to work with you to figure out your struggles and use interventions that are scientifically proven to help you get better. I want to teach you to be your own therapist.
We will discuss how ages 1-18 shaped your life in effort to figure out how you got to where you are. We will examine traumas and hurts that are still affecting you today. We will process feelings, build coping skills, and I will educate you.
We will discuss how ages 1-18 shaped your life in effort to figure out how you got to where you are. We will examine traumas and hurts that are still affecting you today. We will process feelings, build coping skills, and I will educate you.
I use a mostly psychodynamic approach while incorporating other helpful techniques. All this means is I believe that the past influences how we behave and think today. I help clients examine old thoughts and behaviors to help create new ones.