My goal as a therapist is to meet you where you are and to challenge you in ways that are congruent with your goals. Ideally, we collaboratively identify your strengths and limitations and together construct a course that maximizes your strengths and gradually challenges you to face your blind spots and counter your self-sabotaging patterns. The first step of therapy will focus on your developmental history and and will likely identify areas of physical and emotional trauma. This constitutes your conditioning, what I refer to as the hard drive of your psyche. Therapy can be thought of as a process of updating your hard drive beyond self limiting beliefs that result from less than ideal developmental circumstances. Rewriting the hard drive occurs on the stage of the world and inevitably entails an oscillation between forward movement and backward sliding.

What you can expect from me as your therapist is someone willing to offer context for your struggles in psychological theory, including psychodynamic and developmental paradigms, as well as someone well versed in alternative approaches to healing, including nutritional approaches, mind body approaches and spiritual approaches. I am also schooled in the psychology of addiction and often use the 12 step philosophy, as well as Buddhist understandings of addiction, to ground your frustrating and befuddling patterns in a larger human story.