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About My Clients
My clients often begin therapy struggling with questions like; how is this so much easier for everyone else? Of find themselves struggling despite doing the “right” things, only to continue feeling obligation and bitterness. Others find themselves stuck with procrastination, anxiety, depression, and/or substance use. Sometimes the shame and humiliation of where we find ourselves gets in the way. My ideal patient is simply one that is ready to change or open to the possibility.
My Background and Approach
Before private practice I worked for UTMB-CMC within the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. There was so much wasted potential there, which reinforced a desire to focus more on earlier interventions, or to reduce negative consequences to situations we feel stuck in. I love working with difficult and challenging presenting concerns like psychosis spectrum, mood, personality disorders, OCD, depression/anxiety and maladaptive perfectionism often seen in highly motivated and gifted youth/adults. My goal is to collaborate with you, to find an appropriate therapy approach, and help you build a life in line with your values.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of the cure, and in my honest opinion, it is never too late to start. I believe knowledge is power capable of changing the world. But, as the saying goes “To change the world, we have to change the world within ourselves first.” I see many of the mental health issues I work with, stemming from normal processes that get stuck in less than helpful patterns and views of ourselves and the world. When we change how we interact with others and our environments then we change our relationship with new possibilities we never would have imagined. I believe therapy is a process to help attract the life you want, versus the one you ruminate and fear of having.