Goals

Goals of psychotherapy are unique to the individual and may be short-term or long-term but often involve:

  • Learning practical strategies to manage anxiety or distress.

  • Uncovering unconscious conditioning that drives negative thoughts and behavior.

  • Experiencing and expressing emotions while not being overtaken by them.

  • Communicating in authentic ways.

  • Expanding the capacity to manage and transform painful memories, crises, and hardships that inevitably arise in one’s lifetime.

  • Clarifying and deepening the connection to what is most important and meaningful to one’s self.

  • Gaining greater alignment and connection within one’s relationships.

  • Developing compassion and empathy for the limitations of one’s self and others.

Issues

People engage in psychotherapy for a variety of reasons that may be due to crises, diminished functioning, or wanting to gain greater clarity, purpose, and meaning.  Specialties include:

  • Anxiety

  • Depression

  • Relationship issues

  • Life transitions

  • Gaining meaning and purpose

  • Spiritual concerns

  • Grief and loss

  • Trauma

  • Women’s issues

  • Existential concerns

Approach

My approach to psychotherapy is integrative and client-centered.  It involves assessing individual’s ways of processing information and making meaning out of one’s life.  I work with the client’s unique perspectives, strengths, values, and meaning in life to help navigate and transform the challenges, obstacles, and crises that may be arising.  I integrate a wide variety of approaches, including:

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

  • Client-centered Therapy

  • Psychodynamic Therapy

  • Integral Therapy

  • Mindfulness approaches

  • Transpersonal approaches