Approach
Every therapy is unique. Treatment is tailored to you as an individual. Here are the approaches I draw on most.
Depth & Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Moods, symptoms, and relational patterns tend to trace back to earlier experiences that live on in the present. Understanding matters. Insight alone can only take us so far.
Change happens through experience. Being witnessed, being met, finally letting something be felt or said. I try to court surprise. If we keep circling the same thing, I’ll notice it and ask questions I don’t know the answer to. The work is finding what neither of us has touched yet.
Jungian Psychotherapy
The unconscious is always participating in our lives. Beneath our awareness, it’s constantly responding, compensating, and moving toward what’s been left out.
I encourage you to bring in your dreams. Dreams bypass defenses and offer a compact picture of what’s happening underneath. What’s getting worked through? What attitude wants to come in?
Like a dream, a sandtray offers a snapshot of the psyche. Any single tray is informative. Meaning tends to emerge across trays, in how the images evolve over time.
Relational Therapy
The familiar typically reappears in the room. It might surface in how you bring something up, in the question under the question, in what gets felt between us. I pay attention to affect, to what isn’t being said, and to my own responses as information about what might be happening for you. When we explore these patterns as they’re live, something new can happen.