This is a safe place for your concerns: your sadness, your sorrow, your disappointment, as well as your strength and your capacity for happiness. I believe that each person already has what they need to experience the world in a fuller, more open, more confident way. My role is to help people discover what they already know, to be an ally in the process of self-exploration.

Sometimes therapy is begun because of confusion, or grief, because of uneasiness with relationships, or because a person is feeling depressed or anxious. These feelings sometimes overwhelm us. We contract, tighten, and withdraw from the emotional and physical pain of these uneasy feelings. Learning to be aware of thoughts, feelings, images, memories, even body sensations, helps people see what they want and what they need. As wants and needs become clearer, more options emerge and clearer decisions can be made. The result of taking clear actions in the world, is a feeling of nourishment and ultimately, a sense of relaxation…an experience of letting go of tension and pressure and opening up to life.

“We cannot change the way the world is,
but by opening ourselves to the world as it is,
we may find gentleness, decency and bravery are available
– not only to us, but to all human beings.”

-Chogyam Trungpa

Seldom does this process work well without a feeling of safety and without the deeply calm and open presence of another person. My approach is warm, accepting and human. I use a relational, psychodynamic approach informed by trauma, attachment, somatic and mindfulnesss theory. Therapy can be hard work, but it needn’t be overwhelming. With a sensitive ally, it can often be profoundly nourishing and enjoyable.