My Services
Couples Therapy
I help couples find their footing in what they are feeling and thinking, share their experiences with each other, respond in supportive ways and send clear messages to one another about their relational needs. I work on behalf of your relationship by gently bringing attention to the repeating patterns of unproductive interactions that over time undermine trust and closeness in your relationship. Simultaneously, I will help you develop new, more effective ways of interacting together.
Individual Therapy
I support adolescents, young adults and adults. Therapy with me always begins by creating a relationship that fosters safety, trust and exploration. I then tailor my approach to meet your therapeutic goals. I help guide adolescents through their expansive, yet challenging teenage years and young adults with their task of individualizing in preparation for realizing their own desires and managing their responsibilities in adulthood. My approach with adults often includes deeper emotionally and relationally-focused work that incorporates experiential and mindfulness based activities and the acquirement of coping skills.
Family Therapy
In family therapy, I presume caregivers come into therapy with positive intentions to care for and protect their children in a way that preserves the connections within their family. For a variety of good reasons, families can get stuck in their attempts to strike a balance between meeting everyone’s changing needs and staying connected as a family. I work to help families identify and successfully navigate or resolve any relational constraints, and/or individual or contextual barriers getting in their way.
"Relationship distress is the single most common reason for seeking therapy. It undermines family functioning and is strongly associated with depression, anxiety disorders, and alcoholism. EFT for couples offers a comprehensive theory of adult love and attachment, as well as a process for healing distressed relationships. EFT recognizes that relationship distress results from a perceived threat to basic adult needs for safety, security, and closeness in intimate relationships. This experiential/systemic therapy focuses on helping partners restructure the emotional responses that maintain their negative patterns of interaction. Through a series of nine steps, the therapist leads the couple away from conflict deadlock into new bonding patterns. Over the past 30 years, Sue Johnson and her colleagues have developed and rigorously researched this short-term approach in couples therapy. It is now one of the best delineated and empirically validated approaches in the field of couples therapy."
— International Centre For Excellence In Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT) Brochure