My Approach
Therapy that starts with understanding you.
I believe good therapy starts with understanding you as a person, not simply identifying a diagnosis or choosing a treatment technique.
We’ll start by understanding what is bringing you in, what may be contributing to it, and what you would like to be different.
From there, we can think together about what kind of work is most likely to help. I want you to understand what we are doing and why, and to feel comfortable saying when something does not seem useful or when we need to change direction.
Different problems call for different kinds of work.
My training includes behavioral, insight-oriented, and experiential approaches. Sometimes therapy is practical and focused on changing a pattern, developing a skill, or approaching something you have been avoiding. At other times, it means slowing down, understanding an emotional experience or relationship more deeply, or making sense of how past and present connect.
Often, it is some combination of both.
The goal is not to fit you into a particular kind of therapy. It is to figure out what kind of work makes the most sense for you and the problem you are bringing in.
EVIDENCE AND FIT
Individualized care and clinical evidence belong together.
Treatment should fit the person receiving it, but individualized therapy does not mean ignoring what we know from research.
I stay current with the evidence and established clinical best practices, particularly when research tells us that certain treatments are especially effective for a particular problem. That knowledge should inform our work without replacing our understanding of you as an individual.
Research can help us understand what tends to work. Our work together helps determine how to apply that knowledge in a way that makes sense for you.