University of Pennsylvania graduate. I’ve been in the mental health field for 17 years; licensed as a solo practitioner for just over a year. My work has ranged from inpatient psychiatric units, community mental health to group private practice. I’ve worked extensively with addictions, severe and persistent mental illness, anxiety and depression. Extensive knowledge of 12-step fellowships.
My skillset and training lies within diagnosis and assessment. I prefer solution focused therapy where the consumer and I can identify what the client would like to focus on and then together we can determine a solution. I typically use motivational interviewing to pull pieces of what is spoken about to help the client to deeper explore themselves and help to identify the answers within themselves, from their own experiences and their own thought process.
The first session is a get to know you and a get to know me scenario. I want to know who you are and what brings you to therapy with me. I’ll answer any questions and give any insight into myself but therapy is about the client, so I like to have the focus be predominantly on you. Let’s make this space for you and about you and see what we can learn and gain to help improve your day to day thought process and overall life functioning.
