Services
- Individual
- Couples
- Family
- Adolescent/Teen
About My Clients
My ideal clients desire a deeper, richer understanding of Self and Others and are willing to be vulnerable. They can recognize therapy is not a passive process, but an active one, and that it is not my role to "therapize" or fix them. Therapy is not a shot or a pill; it requires more than merely showing up; it requires work, and I'll be there with a fiery torch helping to illuminate your path with clarity and enhanced confidence.
My Background and Approach
I provide Telehealth psychotherapy to all Michigan residents from a largely psychodynamic base, and offer multiple sessions per week, as well as weekend appointments. A Master-level Social Worker, and clinical mental health and substance abuse therapist, with special certification from The Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute’s Advanced Training in Adult Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program, and Honorably discharged 1LT Behavioral Health Science Officer of the Michigan Army National Guard. I draw from many theoretical orientations--CBT, DBT, Transpersonal, Humanism, Jungian, Family Systems, Interpersonal, Humanistic, Existential, Mindfulness-based, Person-centered, Solution-focused, Emotionally Focused and Attachment-based.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I am interested in you, and in raising you to your highest standard, in helping you overcome your pain, grief, addiction, fear or sense of powerlessness. I prize, respect and consider the value and complexity of human life and individual human experience. People are more than a mere diagnosis or behavior. They are a vast sum of their mind, body and spirit, of memories, heredity, beliefs, environment, experiences, emotions, strengths, weaknesses, fears, hopes, dreams and desires, successes and failures. This sum of body, mind and spirit is integral to the type of dynamic work we’ll be doing. I won’t pathologize you, but instead seek to understand you from a multi-faceted lens to help you better achieve your goals and improve the quality of your life. I strive, always, to provide genuine, authentic, ethical, empathic, honest, compassionate, respectful and specialized feedback, guidance and insight for all my clients.