Greetings.
My name is Michael, and I have been a Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice for over 35 years now. I work with individuals, couples, and families and focus on the issues you are dealing with in a present-focused format, and on how best to resolve these issues as you move forward in your life, or lives together.
The primary issue for most of my clients over the years has been a breakdown in communication when attempting to resolve differences. Like an extravert trying to get an introvert to talk more, while the introvert tries to get the extravert to talk less, or a thinker trying to get a feeler to be less sensitive, while the feeler tries to get the thinker to be more sensitive, with this rarely happening!
And, for most, the solution has come from understanding and accommodating these differences rather than in assigning blame.
New clients send in a filled-in copy of a questionnaire based on Myers-Briggs-Type-Indicator, a measure of natural differences, before we meet. I then provide information on general traits and characteristics known to be common for individuals with their questionnaire score. Information that has proven to be consistently accurate for themselves as well as for their significant others. An accuracy and understanding that allows them to accommodate and compromise with those that differ in contexts that was not possible before.
