My Philosophy
Over the years I have been trained in many models (e.g. CBT, DBT) and can use them in my practice as needed.
My belief is that we are all trying the best we can to manage our relationships, work, and other life goals. The challenges we face are often a combination of life events that create stress and our ways of managing that stress and relating to others that have become less effective. By reflecting on our past successes and all the ways of thinking, feeling, and acting that have been most helpful, we can often find the path through our problems to greater happiness.
I start by being a good listener and move to being a good guide for your particular life situation and goals.
My Approach
Consult and Orient
We will start with a short call to review your needs and whether I'm a good fit for you as a therapist. If we move forward, I'll review some of the basic guidelines to ensure productive, private therapy.
Assess and Recommend
The first session or two will be focused on exploring your situation and helping you with practical strategies to use right away. This might include completing some questionnaires to tease out specific areas of concern and, in the case of marital or family issues, meeting with parties separately.
I can then make specific recommendations for how to improve your situation and we can discuss which of these paths you want to pursue.
Plan and Goal-Setting
Together we will come up with a concrete plan for using sessions to work on specific goals you want to achieve. The goals will be tied into an overall vision for where you want to be at the end of therapy and lead us to even more specific steps we can take together.
Intervene and Build
Good therapy is a combination of therapist intervention and personal initiative to build more and more success at the priorities we hold. I promise to be more than a good listener and you promise to take responsibility for making your life better. I may suggest that you read materials, write exercises, or talk to people differently, but together we will decide what solutions work best for you.
Learn and Grow
Success breeds success. As we gain self-knowledge and skill from small steps, we can apply them to bigger steps. Our project together will be to build a cycle of self-awareness and responsible action to help you become the best person you can be.
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