Counseling is a collaborative and interactive process.
First, we establish your therapeutic goals. You could be entering therapy due to a crisis and looking for a safe, objective confidante with whom you can share your thoughts and feelings, or you could be looking for assistance in working though deeper issues related to your past and/or present. Perhaps you are on top of everything yet still you have that sense of wanting more. Regardless of where you are, I will guide you in a caring and respectful manner.
I draw from therapeutic approaches such as Relational, Gestalt and Psychodynamic models. Some of the methods we may use to assist you in making personal changes are:
• New insight and understanding about yourself
• Identifying, expressing, and releasing emotion
• Experimentation with new behaviors both in and out of therapy
• Authentic interaction through the therapeutic relationship
When you begin to make changes, therapy can feel like an exciting adventure. Yet other times, change can involve a stretch outside your comfort zone. My intention is that you will learn to view all of these experiences as valuable steps in your growth.
As we develop more self-awareness and acceptance of our humanness, we become more capable of fulfillment and contentment in life!