Do you need more support?

You’ve been thinking about talking to someone for a while, but it’s finally time to act. You find yourself discontent, unfocused, worried, and burdened by the demands and complications of life, work, and relationships. Perhaps you’ve always struggled with your mental health and now you’re in over your head. Under stress, most of us tend to default to coping in ways that were adaptive earlier in life, which can cause more harm than good. You’re pretty sure that’s what’s happening now. You may also be at the mercy of unhealthy impulses and addictive behaviors, like isolating, avoiding or hyperfocusing on problems, numbing feelings, engaging in excessive self-blame and self-criticism, being overly self-reliant, compulsively caretaking or pleasing others, and under or overworking.

I help adults who are in emotional pain and struggling to make sense of their experiences and find solutions to reduce unnecessary suffering, have healthier relationships, and live with dignity and purpose.

The adults I see grapple with all kinds of internal and external stressors. Many are dealing with anxiety, whether long-standing or newly emerged, significant life transitions, and uncertainty about their near or long-term future. Many are living with depression and bipolar disorder. Others need help with challenging personal, romantic, family, or work relationships. Some are in the thick of a relationship impasse or a break-up, separation, or divorce, leaving them to navigate their own pain along with the fallout on kids, family and friends. Some are immersed in complex family dynamics due to the illness or death of a family member or the impact of familial mental illness, addiction, trauma, or various types of estrangement. Yet others are facing dissatisfaction at work and questioning their career path. No matter the circumstances, most are ready to make their psychological growth a priority and want to explore identity issues, life purpose, and what matters in the end.

Sometimes therapy is about getting strategic help when you’re in overload and your functioning has taken a hit. Other times it’s about helping you uncover deeper needs and feelings and having more authentic, skillful, and satisfying relationships.

Based on how much you’re suffering and where you want your therapy to take you, you may decide to do targeted, short-term work, set a course for the long haul, or something in between. No matter how long you stay, I’ll start by exploring what you want to get out of therapy and identify the right session frequency and clinical methods to advance your goals. I will check in with you regularly to make sure we’re still on track in meeting your needs and course correct based on your feedback.

How I can help.

• I’ll listen to you with warmth, interest, and skill so I can accurately understand your struggles and really get in there with you. Attuned human connection is the most powerful mechanism to undo emotional pain and what I cultivate each and every session, so you feel authentically validated, recognized, and less burdened and alone.

• I’ll help you make sense of the challenges you face, providing you with a professional sounding board so you can gain insight into the triggers, contributing factors, and underlying causes. This creates a framework for us to untangle and address the specific ways you’re suffering and formulate a treatment plan tailor-made for you.

• I’ll leverage your strengths, given that therapeutic support and insight are not always enough to make changes and feel better. Even if you don’t feel particularly strong, you have strengths which we will help you identify and deploy to attend to feelings, heal the wounded places, solve problems, function well, and expand well-being.

• I’ll provide you with strategies, since they’re mission critical to change. I’m trained in a wide variety of clinical methods and will choose the ones that best meet your needs and advance your goals for therapy. Said another way, I practice Integrative Psychotherapy, where what works best for you dictates my approach.