What We Do

The process of starting therapy

15-Minute Phone Call

We will start with a 15-minute phone call to determine if my services align with what you’re seeking from therapy. There will be no charge for this.

Consultation

Our first few meetings will be a time for you to share your story with me and what inspired you to seek therapy. This allows me to learn about you and to consider whether and how I’ll be able to best support you. At the same time, you’ll begin to get a sense of my approach and how it feels like to be in a therapeutic relationship with me—how I listen, respond, and guide  you. During this shared exploration, we will begin to uncover what’s happening in your world as you experience it and to reflect on the origins of your current challenges. Together, we’ll consider if moving forward in this work feels right for both of us.

Psychotherapy

Choosing to start therapy gives you the space to work through past traumas, navigate present challenges, and move toward future goals. Being in therapy goes beyond getting advice and fleeting reassurance.  I will make note of the parts of you that often go unnoticed. Together, we will explore and experience the most private places within you. As I listen deeply enough to feel and see the world through your perspective, I can begin to expand your understanding of yourself—both as an individual and in relation to others.

My approach to psychotherapy is relational and informed by psychoanalytic psychology and existential therapy.

Relational Psychoanalysis

This is a form of psychotherapy that emphasizes the importance of relationships in shaping an individual's emotional experiences, identity, and current behavior. It is believed that much of human suffering arises from relational injuries and disconnection. In relational psychoanalysis, the therapeutic relationship, between you and I, becomes the central means of healing, as it provides a space where past relational patterns can emerge, be reenacted and you can experience a new, reparative kind of relationship that fosters understanding, empathy, and growth.

Relational psychoanalysis is particularly effective for individuals who struggle with intimacy, trust, vulnerability, anxious or avoidant attachment, low self-worth, loneliness or the aftermath of relational trauma.

Existential Psychotherapy

Existential therapy is a philosophical approach to psychotherapy that emphasizes exploring your convictions and questions about the human condition.

Existential therapy can help you embrace freedom and take responsibility for your choices, find meaning and purpose in your life, and live in a way that is authentic and aligned with your values and aspirations. This nurtures our inherent resilience in the face of life’s inevitable tragedies.

Individual Counseling Services

I work with adults 18 years and older, one-on-one, for 50-minutes, 1-2 times per week.

“I have come to believe that by and large the human family all has the same secrets, which are both very telling and very important to tell. They are telling in the sense that they tell what is perhaps the central paradox of our condition - that what we hunger for perhaps more than anything else is to be known in our full humanness, and yet that is often just what we also fear more than anything else. It is important to tell at least from time to time the secret of who we truly and fully are, even if we tell it only to ourselves, because otherwise we run the risk of losing track of who we truly and fully are and little by little come to accept instead the highly edited version which we put forth in hope that the world will find it more acceptable than the real thing. It is important to tell our secrets too because it makes it easier that way to see where we have been in our lives and where we are going. It also makes it easier for other people to tell us a secret or two of their own, and exchanges like that have a lot to do with what being a family is all about and what being human is all about.”

— Frederick Buechner