Individual Therapy
I work with individuals on all kinds of life difficulties, including anxiety, depression, relationships, trauma, grief, loneliness and isolation, careers, troubled childhoods, fertility-related issues, divorce, parenting, health-related issues such as chronic pain and sleep difficulties, and climate crisis-related anxiety and despair. My approach prioritizes my clients’ needs and goals, using the approach and skills most suitable to each person, bearing in mind that these may change over time. For example, someone coming to me for help with panic disorder might first want to address specific panic-related fears and behaviors. Once these are addressed, he/she may benefit more from an insight-oriented approach to understanding the more long-standing contributions to their anxiety.
Establishing a safe and nurturing environment, respectful of each client’s individual experiences, is an essential and critical basis of my therapy practice.
Couples Therapy
As with my individual work, my focus in couples work is on the client’s needs and goals, except that here the client is the couple. I use a systems perspective, meaning that I work to assist the members of the couple in understanding how their individual thoughts, feelings, and behaviors impact and influence the relationship in a reciprocal manner. The goal is not to establish blame, but rather to understand the relationship dynamics and attend to how each member contributes to, and has the potential to change, these patterns.
Group Therapy
Group therapy is a powerful way to effect change because it provides a “live” setting where personality and relationship dynamics are set into motion and thereby become available for experiencing, observing, and modifying moment by moment. Because confidentiality and a sense of safety are so crucial for success, I work very hard to build an environment where my clients feel the freedom to work effectively. Establishing this base allows my clients to work deeply on understanding themselves and their patterns, observing their effects on others and others’ effects on them, and experimenting with different patterns of expression and interaction.
