My Therapy Practice

I work with adults and adolescents to provide individual, couple, and group psychotherapy. My assumption is that self-awareness is the key to change. You must first understand who you are, and the experiences that have shaped you before you can more freely chose new thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. This approach is called insight-oriented, psychodynamic, or psychoanalytic. 

Looking at one’s life can be hard work, so it is important that it occur in the context of a trusting relationship. It takes time to build this trust. We will work together to maximize your well-being.

Many of our motives become established early in life when we have no control over what happens to us. We adjust to the people around us, adapt to their personalities and expectations. We learn to cope with the environment we live in and rely on with these coping strategies for daily life. Often the ways we learned to cope in our families do not work as well in the larger world and hold us back from greater opportunities. This is where insight comes in; if you become more self-aware, you can determine what you want to change. 

Greater self-awareness leads to better living in terms of symptom relief, and improvement in the quality of relationships and one’s work.