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About My Clients
I specialize in working with high-functioning adults and couples who may have achieved success in some areas of their lives but feel lacking in others. My clients come in looking for deeper, more permanent solutions to challenges they face in their everyday lives. Often my clients want greater success in relationships or help finding meaning and connection.
My Background and Approach
I often use a number of different psychological approaches that include but are not limited to, psychodynamic, existential, family systems, developmental, ego state work, humanistic, trauma-informed and somatic-based models, attachment-based models, and psycho-educational. I am also interested in your earliest experience and how they have impacted you and the way in which you experience the world. Of equal interest is your current family system, your relationships and life experiences, and your views of self and the world. Consistent with research, we have learned that there is no true separation between “mind” and “body,” and so I will focus on nervous system functioning in addition to to thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in helping one learn to effectively self-regulate, self-soothe, and recalibrate your nervous system.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
It is my belief that each of our experiences – regardless of our beliefs in ego, self, or soul – incorporate four elements: emotion, thought, sensation, and behavior. Any one of these four elements will interact and impact the other three, ultimately influencing how we view our experience, ourselves, and the world. My role as therapist is to help you integrate these elements so that you can feel “whole,” as opposed to fragmented, disconnected, disengaged, and/or alone. Whether you are seeing me as an individual, couple, or family, the primary goal is to help you make meaning out of your experience, process to completion any issues yet unresolved, and move forward with your life. Once treatment goals are reached, therapy usually ends, and either of us should feel free to raise the concept of ending treatment at any time.