I view my prac­tice as an expe­ri­ence of co-cre­at­ing.  We form a part­ner­ship where the project is a hap­pi­er, health­i­er You.  To that end, I hope you under­stand that choos­ing a men­tal health provider is not like vis­it­ing a med­ical doc­tor.  Ther­a­py is not a “one size (or method) fits all” approach.  I am very inter­ac­tive in my approach.  This way of work­ing also calls for a very active effort on your part.  In order for you to achieve your goals in ther­a­py, you must be will­ing to talk about your­self on a deep­er lev­el, work on things we talk about when you are at home, at work and with sig­nif­i­cant rela­tion­ships in your life.  And set small, spe­cif­ic goals so that you can see “progress…not perfection.”

How will you know if I’m the one for you?  A suc­cess­ful coun­sel­ing col­lab­o­ra­tion does depend on the per­son­al­i­ties of the ther­a­pist, of the indi­vid­ual or of each part­ner in the cou­ple.   It also depends on the sit­u­a­tions you wish to change.

It usu­al­ly takes 3 to 5 ses­sions to see if we can do that cos­mic heal­ing “dance” togeth­er.   Dur­ing the first few ses­sions, we both can decide if I am the best per­son to pro­vide the ser­vices you need in order to meet your treat­ment goals.

Psy­chother­a­py has been shown to have many ben­e­fits, but there are also risks.  Secrets may have to be dis­cussed. Intense feel­ings may arise that you may need to expe­ri­ence and learn to man­age.  You may feel sad, angry, con­fused, afraid, week, guilty or help­less.  Using my neu­robe­hav­ioral obser­va­tion­al skills,  I work close­ly, gen­tly and care­ful­ly with you to have a bet­ter rela­tion­ship with your emo­tion­al life as you search inward­ly for solu­tions to your spe­cif­ic prob­lems and reduc­tion of stress­ful feelings.