Therapeutic Approach

My Approach

I offer my clients a depth oriented, attachment and relational psychoanalytic perspective that believes in working with the whole person: present symptoms as well as the stories that got you here to this very moment in your life. Our first, primary relationships often form a foundation of how we think, how we feel and operate through life. Which then, in turn, impacts our present relationships and how we feel and operate in them. During this process, I believe it is vital to explore both our conscious and unconscious drives that may be negatively influencing ourselves in our lives. I believe that we as humans are all longing for something similar: to be loved, to be heard, to be known and yet, at the same time, are sometimes scared of those things as much as we long for them. One of the greatest honors in my life is to walk alongside you as you find freedom in your greatest longings.

I know that stepping into therapy can be daunting. I also know that this work may be some of the hardest work that you will ever do. With that in mind, it is my hope that while this may be challenging, that you will feel supported and assisted in removing whatever barriers you feel are present in your life. I desire for each of my clients to have understanding and freedom within themselves and their most important relationships.

Finally, my therapeutic approach draws distinctly from my personality that interweaves compassionate perception with a light-heart, authenticity and humor. It is so important to me that as I ask you to show up and offer yourself to me, that I also offer my authentic self for you in return.

****For those acquainted with therapeutic terminology and experts in the field, I often study the writings and teachings of the following practitioners: D.W. Winnicott, Dan Siegel, Bessel van der Kolk, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Philip Bromberg, Galit Atlas, Carl Jung, among others.****

"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.”

- Carl Jung

"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious."

- Carl Jung

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