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About My Clients
I am a Counseling Psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist with a special interest in helping artists, writers, actors, musicians and creative spirits of all types achieve their full potential. I am also interested in working with men around issues of fatherhood, masculinity, and relationships. I have completed specialized training working with college, medical, and professional students (UCLA and USC Health Science Campus), as well as veterans (Minneapolis and Milwaukee VA).
My Background and Approach
My approach is an integration of contemporary psychodynamic psychotherapy with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, a mindfulness-based, values guided, experiential behavioral approach. What this means in practice is that I will work collaboratively with you to disclose sources of meaning in your life, while facilitating the development of new perspectives on your internal emotional worlds, in the service of pursuing increasingly clarified values. At times this will include looking at patterns in current and past relationships that may be contributing to “stuck” points, while at others it will include guided experiential exercises aimed at dislodging patterns of behavior that are no longer serving your life, that are blocking you from living a more vital, engaged, meaningful existence. I have continued my education following receipt of my PhD, including recently completing a two-year certificate program in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy from the New Center for Psychoanalysis in LA.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Healing is possible. I offer teletherapy in Minnesota and California, as well as PSYPact participating states; https://psypact.org/mpage/psypactmap