Gain an ally to help you improve your life. Together, we can help you overcome limiting beliefs or relational patterns. We can help you embrace new perspectives and solve the problems that need solving. We can help you transcend losses or traumas you have experienced, and help you appreciate what you have to offer others. Therapy does not have to be rigid; humor is encouraged. We can have fun while applying the best techniques psychology has produced.

Over the 20 years I have been practicing psychotherapy, I have helped many people with:

• Worry, stress, anxiety, panic, obsessive thoughts
• Sadness, depression, mood fluctuations
• Relationships with friends, family, partners
• Body image issues, fitness, & health
• ADHD
• Autistic spectrum & other neuroatypical styles
• Substance abuse & escape behaviors such as gaming, porn, shopping, gambling
• Coping with illness, pain, disease, aging
• Loss, grief, transitions
• Job stress & career change
• Positive psychology: happiness, satisfaction, gratitude, flow, peak performance
• Creating a meaningful life

ANXIETY & DEPRESSION 

• GAD, panic, OCD, PTSD, social anxiety, health anxiety, stress 
• Sadness, depression, angst, dissatisfaction

CREATING MEANING

• Re-write your story after a setback or loss
• Discover how you can best serve the world
• Seize moments & create meaning in your life 

RELATIONSHIPS

Friends

• Making new ones, nourishing the old

Family

• Marriage, divorce, re-marriage, blended families 
• Estrangement

Dating, partnering, & sexuality

• Finding, courting, attachment, the work of love

Parenting

• Staying on the same page

Patterns, skills, & style

• Avoid blaming, take responsibility, build trust 
• Increase perspective taking, empathy, compassion, & forgiveness
• Embrace playfulness & take the self less seriously

You can likely benefit from one or more of the following orientations, schools, or approaches below, which have literatures and evidence behind them. We can also integrate and combine approaches to meet your needs. Matching techniques to your needs and motivations within a solid therapeutic alliance will lead to the best results. 

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) 

We evaluate evidence for thoughts that are not serving you, and provide alternative perspectives that help you think in a more flexible manner, positively influencing feelings and actions. 

Behavioral 

We increase desirable behaviors by experimentation, practice, and shifting rewards. We overcome fears by gradually and systematically facing them. 

Mindfulness, including ACT 

We heighten our awareness, observing thoughts and feelings with non-judgment and acceptance, realizing that we are more than our passing thoughts or feelings. This will lessen our reactivity and stress and help us make wise choices. 

Psychodynamic

We explore our patterns to determine if we learned any styles of relating that no longer serve us, and then experiment with new ways of relating, leading to new outcomes that slowly change our original expectations of relationships.  

Existential

We explore the universal givens of responsibility, isolation, meaning, and impermanence, and take steps to create a meaningful life.