My Approach to Therapy

My approach is holistic, relational and integrative. Therapy is first and foremost a relationship built on trust, honesty, acceptance and a commitment to working together to achieve change. Together we will develop a plan for change that will take into account your unique personality and the circumstances you are dealing with. No one approach works for everyone and we will work to identify your challenges, break them into manageable pieces and move forward at a pace that is comfortable and sustainable for you.

I believe that when we get off track, as we all do, that we lose balance. For example, we often stop exercising, forget about our meditation practice, eat poorly, sleep poorly and isolate from friends and family. The healthy rhythms of our lives are disrupted. We get stuck in our anxiety, depression, sadness, guilt or shame. Most importantly, we lose sight of our inherent strengths and focus on the negative. Therapy helps us find our way back to ourselves, encourages us to hear our own voice and teaches us new ways of reacting and feeling. We realize that we might not like the difficult things we have to deal with in our lives, might in fact hate them, but we CAN manage them! We are stronger than what happens to us.

Therapy is not magical transformation, it is hard work and requires a dedicated commitment to change. It can be uncomfortable at times to look at things that have hurt us. Therapy is the way to move through and past hurts and become stronger in the process.