I am eager to join you in your ongoing quest to recover, understand and drastically improve your life. Although, I am optimistic, I realize that the work can be challenging. After 38 years experience as a clinical psychologist working with diverse clients, I am convinced that our work together will be rewarding for us both. I like to assist my client's in their discoveries of new ways of understanding that provide access to powerful streams of creativity and emotional uplift.
I take a life-story approach to capture the important interpersonal, social and structural contexts of your life that created your past coping habits and expectations. Insight provides you with a map that improves your life-map or ability to predict and control like a wise scientist.
I take an integrative approach that begins with a thoughtful history of what brings you to counseling and how you want to change, followed by a description of relevant life-events as well as your attempts to navigate them.
From this work we will appreciate you as a hero as well as the way you have suffered. It is likely that you have transformed your difficulties in to resilient ways of being and coping. Or you may be continuing to suffer regardless of your talents and achievements. The goal will be to stop your suffering and enhance your talents and resilience. Some find they are dealing with trauma, fallen in to pits of depression, overwhelmed by uncertainty, maintaining addictions or repeating other self-defeating behaviors. All these issues will be the stuff of psychotherapy. The outcomes will involve new insights that will lead to learning new ways of preventing the suffering, finding optimism and instead of limping through your life, discover and enthusiasm and approach that will have you going after what you need, asking for what you want and appreciating that what you deserve.
