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About My Clients
Therapy is a unique, complex endeavor. That’s because all individuals engaging in it—therapists and clients, alike—are precisely those two things: unique and complex. I stay mindful of this by embracing curiosity and acceptance, and suspending, to the greatest extent possible, judgments and biases. I relish the challenge of making sense of our messy, confounding selves and experiences; of easing the pressures we absorb from external, powerful forces.
My Background and Approach
Because of just how varied and complex people and problems are, no single theory can address all concerns. Therefore, I can’t rely on one approach to work with all people. In jargon-y terms, I fundamentally work with a psychodynamic lens, while reaching deeply into the theories and strategies of cognitive-behavioral therapies to fill up my clinical toolbox. Having a rich understanding of our thoughts, feelings and the behaviors we express in the flow of moment-to-moment life, is very important to addressing concerns. At the same time, the thoughts, feelings, experiences and desires we have residing outside our moment-to-moment awareness–outside our conscious minds–are very important to understanding ourselves and our concerns. Therapy is the process of bringing all this stuff, this unwieldy mix of mental materials, into the same place, sifting through it all, to see what we can see. And because we’re all different, this process unfolds a little differently for everyone.