Through psychotherapy you may:

• Develop better skills at managing difficult emotions, such as sadness, anger and grief.
• Learn to nurture the feelings that are healthy (even if painful), and not those that can get you stuck.
• Navigate important transitions in your career or family.
• Become a better partner, boss, employee or parent.
• Restore a healthy, positive narrative for your marriage or relationship, instead of getting stuck in cycles of criticism and rejection.
• Develop healthier habits (eating, exercising, becoming more organized) without reliance on ultimatums.
• Discover greater self-acceptance, humor and optimism.
• Learn ways to relinquish chronic control and worry and be more “in the present.”
• Learn positive strategies for decreasing the chances of recurrent depression.
• Discover an identity that is not based on an analysis of your faults and defects.
• Forge a deeper connection to your own values.
• Become more engaged in personal interests, such as art, music, community involvement and exercise.
• Find a better balance between work, family and personal time. 
  

My approach to therapy is based on several core values:

• A belief in each person's innate capacity for health and change. 
• A respect for the client's experience, skills, and point of view.
• An assumption that psychological distress is a natural and common response to life's inherent difficulties.
  

As my client you can expect from me:

• A respectful, compassionate, non-confrontational attitude. 
• A mutual, reciprocal exploration of ideas.  
• Practical guidance and strategies. 
• Frequent check-in to evaluate whether my approach is on the right track. 
• Non-defensiveness. 
• An interest in you as a person, not just a "patient".  
• Humor, openness and optimism.