My Approach

Therapy should be collaborative and a little uncomfortable. You tell me what's bothering you, and together we create goals and a plan. If it doesn't feel right, then we'll adjust until it does. I don't want therapy to be painful, but if you're too comfortable, then you're probably not making progress. Growth in mental health should be like stretching a muscle; if you go too far too fast, you'll damage something. But if you don't push at all, then nothing really happens and you stay in the same place.

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I pull from a lot of different modalities, so my style is a little eclectic. I use skills from DBT and Inner Family Systems therapy, for example, but I don't stay exclusively in any one theory or branch of therapy. I use a lot of psychoeducation, because I believe that knowledge is power. I will often assign homework activities or recommend books, because the best work happens outside of my office. I will use humor in session, because even mental health is allowed to have a little levity.