People enter therapy for a wide variety of reasons: The death or loss of a loved one, illness, job loss, divorce, addiction, etc., but we all seek help because we are trying to find a better way to deal with the reality we are facing.

 

   My job is to help you:

• Talk about your emotions and reactions in a safe environment

• Figure out where these emotions and reactions are coming from

• Observe whether your reactions produce the desired outcomes

• Discover new ways to react, if that would produce more desirable outcomes

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   My mandate is to:

• Listen, not judge

• Recognize repressed feelings

• Help develop alternatives to behaviors and patterns that may lead to further suffering

 

   What is commonly known as "talk therapy" is the basis of my approach, but am able to increase the efficiency of our sessions by using a variety of techniques to allow access to emotions which may otherwise remain repressed.

   These techniques use images, such as art or photographs, or the images from your own dreams and imagination to give you access to feelings that your rational mind may have told you that you shouldn't have.

   It's like finally accepting that you have a cold: once you stop ignoring the symptoms you can figure out what you need and how to take care of yourself.​