My Approach

My therapeutic style is both warm and engaging, and I carefully adapt my approach to each person to provide highly individualized care. I make use of an evidence-based psychodynamic approach with the goals of helping you gain insight and creating deep, meaningful, and lasting change. I will work collaboratively with you to encourage self-reflection, reduce your suffering, carefully explore emotional experiences, and help you make the changes that you seek in your life.

In our work together, we will address your present issues and concerns, while also attending to your earliest experiences and relationships. These earlier experiences create an imprint for how we encounter the world as adults. More specifically, relationships with early caregivers and parents help shape adult patterns of relating, and so, addressing them will help us better understand the conflicts that underlie your current difficulties. Similarly, the therapeutic relationship that develops between us will serve as a first-hand microcosm for your present issues, dynamics, and conflicts. We will make use of the working relationship that develops between us to clarify these repeating conflicts and dynamics and work through them in the here-and-now.

Getting Started

I offer a complimentary 20-minute phone consultation. During the consultation, I will get a sense of what brings you to therapy and how I may be of help to you. This will be an opportunity for you to ask questions and evaluate whether you feel comfortable working with me and for us to determine next steps.

If we agree to move forward, we will schedule an initial evaluation to take place across multiple sessions. During these sessions, we will evaluate your needs and further explore your presenting issues and their history. If we both determine that this is a good therapeutic match, we will discuss the frequency and scheduling of our sessions.

Please note, I meet with individuals and couples at a minimum of once per week. This allows us to work on a deeper and more effective level.