• Men’s Issues

• Addiction

• Therapy for therapists: burnout and guilt

• Borderline Personality

• Psychosis/Schizophrenia

• Developmental trauma including sexual/physical/emotional abuse

• Depression and anxiety

• Problems in intimate relationships

Issues Treated

My Approach

Psychotherapy is about changing your way of being.

Meaningful psychotherapy slows things down and offers an intentionally reflective space to compassionately sit with your feelings, explore conflicts, confront fear and emotional pain, and ultimately embrace new possibilities for living.

My first task is to listen. Deep listening opens up possibilities for self-understanding and a greater sense of wholeness. When we feel more whole, we feel more free. With more freedom, we find greater flexiblity in choice and action through life.

All of your thoughts, feelings, fantasies are grist for the mill in therapy. We work to discover the patterns of your mind. I work with a highly relational style, listening deeply to the narrative themes of your life.

I work in a highly relational style, with warmth and emotional transparency. Therapy is not like other ordinary conversation, but you ought to feel like your therapist is genuinely invested with you and your inner world.

What Brings People to Therapy?

Emotional distress is highly individualized - no two stories of pain are ever the same. Psychological suffering often emerges from a sense of panic or loss, brought on by one or more stressful life event. Our ability to cope is strained. People may sense they’re not living a life aligned with their authentic sense of self. Compounding this problem, many people may not have ever had a chance to safely explore their inner world and therefore feel fragmented, not knowing who they are or what they want.

If relationships throughout life have been untrustworthy, abusive, chronically misattuned, or neglectful, vulnerability to these problems makes clear sense. People endure a chronic state of anxiety, confusion, emotional disregulation, or depression, often not understanding why. We then find ourselves in familiar unfulfilling patterns of relationships which confirm the narratives we so desperately seek freedom from. This cycle predictably results in wounded self-esteem and stunted capacities for personal growth.

Mental health symptoms are a form of communication: there is something in us which needs attending to. We must listen, or else retreat further into suffering. Psychotherapy is an opportunity to confront this self-defeating cycle.