I am committed to continuous ongoing study and training. My approach is contextual and experiential. I am inspired and guided by, and have training in, interpersonal psychoanalysis, contextual behaviorism, and existential, phenomenological, and person-centered therapeutic traditions.

Here are a few zones of thought/basic premises drawn from the traditions I’ve studied that inform my approach to working with you.

∆∆∆ Becoming more aware of one’s experience and one’s awareness itself—learning to observe oneself—is a process and a practice that can enhance and transform life. As you become more aware, you get to know more about what’s really important to you. That knowledge begins to motivate change.

∆∆∆ There’s a kind of knowing that you don’t already know you know. In the held and safe space of therapy your mind can be free to roam without conscious control and your feelings can be allowed to speak without censorship.

Things might not have a clear purpose or objective yet. We can begin to see their patterns as they unfold.

∆∆∆ The meanings of actions are context-dependent. The “same” thing in one situation is something completely different in another.

A whole new reality is continually coming into being. What does continuity mean for you in this river of constant change that is life?

∆∆∆ A third reality comes into being in the therapeutic relationship between two individuals. We can think of this third as a kind of co-createdness that neither of us could come up with on our own.

We are always both responsible in the therapeutic process, and at the same time we are also beneficiaries of an unexpected gift, which is our being together and finding previously unknown meanings in the uniqueness of the space between us.

∆∆∆ This is your therapy, and it needs to be about you and to work for you. It might be challenging, but if it doesn’t feel like a good kind of challenge, that’s a sign for us both that something needs to shift.

These kinds of signs are more than welcome in the therapeutic space. Things you might feel you need to avoid in other contexts are exactly what we’re here to explore and consider.