Services offered:
I work with individuals, couples, families, and children. Treatment is offered for a range of issues, including:
My Therapeutic Approach
I offer psychotherapy based on a number of orientations, including the following:
My educational background is in the psychological theories developed by Carl Jung, known as Analytical psychology. Analytical psychology provides a theoretical perspective and set of techniques for exploring hidden motives and meanings, through examination of the deeper layers of human experience. It incorporates the notion of the psyche, which Jung interpreted as both a conscious and unconscious, personal and "transpersonal", or archetypal, process, as well as questions of human development, or "individuation", as Jung conceived this phenomenon.
While my educational background is in Analytical psychology, I incorporate a number of other psychological theoretical orientations in my practice as appropriate to particular treatment presentations. These include cognitive behavioral, family systems, object relations, emotion focused, existential, and mindful awareness approaches, among others. How we work together will depend on your goals and the problems you want to work on. Additionally, therapy can be completed within a short time-frame or over a longer period of time, depending on how much you wish to accomplish and the kinds of changes you want to make in your life. These aspects of therapy will be talked about in our initial meetings. In the course of therapy, you will be given many opportunities to ask questions, assess, and provide feedback on the strategies and the therapeutic time-frame, to ensure that you are achieving the changes you are hoping for.
Marriage and Couples Counseling
In couples counseling, I will work with you and your spouse or partner to identify those areas of conflict that you wish to resolve. You will decide what changes are needed in the relationship and in the behavior of each of you to achieve or reestablish a sense of harmony and fulfillment. You will both be helped to communicate more effectively, avoid criticism, to solve problems constructively, to identify goals, and improve the level of intimacy in your relationship. If you and your spouse work to discover the sources of your difficulties and take responsibility for your part in your relationship, you have a great opportunity to work things out.
Risks and Benefits of Therapy
Psychotherapy has both benefits and risks. Your work with me may often require discussing painful and unpleasant aspects of your life and experiencing painful feelings in our sessions. Psychotherapy may not always have a successful outcome for everyone. But psychotherapy has shown to be beneficial to those who commit to it, helping to alleviate symptoms and improve their sense of well-being and relationships.
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
- Dissociative Disorders
- Survivors of childhood abuse
- Victims of violent crime
- Anger management
- Domestic violence
- Life transitions
- Bereavement
- Chronic illness
- Marriage and couples counseling
- Children's therapy
- Parenting issues
My Therapeutic Approach
I offer psychotherapy based on a number of orientations, including the following:
- Attachment Theory
- Trauma Informed
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Existential
- Object Relations
- Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for couples
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR)
- Family Systems
- Mindfulness
My educational background is in the psychological theories developed by Carl Jung, known as Analytical psychology. Analytical psychology provides a theoretical perspective and set of techniques for exploring hidden motives and meanings, through examination of the deeper layers of human experience. It incorporates the notion of the psyche, which Jung interpreted as both a conscious and unconscious, personal and "transpersonal", or archetypal, process, as well as questions of human development, or "individuation", as Jung conceived this phenomenon.
While my educational background is in Analytical psychology, I incorporate a number of other psychological theoretical orientations in my practice as appropriate to particular treatment presentations. These include cognitive behavioral, family systems, object relations, emotion focused, existential, and mindful awareness approaches, among others. How we work together will depend on your goals and the problems you want to work on. Additionally, therapy can be completed within a short time-frame or over a longer period of time, depending on how much you wish to accomplish and the kinds of changes you want to make in your life. These aspects of therapy will be talked about in our initial meetings. In the course of therapy, you will be given many opportunities to ask questions, assess, and provide feedback on the strategies and the therapeutic time-frame, to ensure that you are achieving the changes you are hoping for.
Marriage and Couples Counseling
In couples counseling, I will work with you and your spouse or partner to identify those areas of conflict that you wish to resolve. You will decide what changes are needed in the relationship and in the behavior of each of you to achieve or reestablish a sense of harmony and fulfillment. You will both be helped to communicate more effectively, avoid criticism, to solve problems constructively, to identify goals, and improve the level of intimacy in your relationship. If you and your spouse work to discover the sources of your difficulties and take responsibility for your part in your relationship, you have a great opportunity to work things out.
Risks and Benefits of Therapy
Psychotherapy has both benefits and risks. Your work with me may often require discussing painful and unpleasant aspects of your life and experiencing painful feelings in our sessions. Psychotherapy may not always have a successful outcome for everyone. But psychotherapy has shown to be beneficial to those who commit to it, helping to alleviate symptoms and improve their sense of well-being and relationships.
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