Thank you for considering me as your potential treatment provider! Following a recent two-year hiatus, I began offering electronic sessions (phone or video) in early 2024. As I have done in the past, I still offer the same no-risk first session; meaning, you only pay for the first session if you wish to continue working with me thereafter. Additionally, if you are undecided if working remotely will be a good fit, this allows you the opportunity to try it out at no-risk to you.
For a quick synopsis of my specialty areas and general therapeutic philosophy, please scroll the rest of this page.
Specialty Areas:
- Addictions & Compulsive Behaviors
- Anger & Violence
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Grief & Loss
- Life Transitions
- Trauma
Approach and Philosophy:
First, I do not hold the view that any of the above-mentioned conditions listed under “specialty areas” are problems in and of themselves. Rather, over the course of my personal and professional journey, I have found that conditions like these are often symptoms of deeper issues not initially recognized by the client.
Often, the ultimate goal of therapy is to “feel” better, and there are three primary tributaries (therapeutic intervention pathways) that may be taken in order to achieve that goal: cognition (aka thoughts), behaviors (aka actions), and the physical/emotional body (aka feelings). Or, as a client recently clarified with me: “You mean the head, the feet, and the heart?” Yes, that’s exactly it!
Today, many of the dominate therapeutic approaches utilize interventions that largely focus on cognition or a combination of cognition and behavior. There is a premise behind these approaches: if a person can identify their irrational or illogical thought patterns and/or change their behavioral responses in particular contexts, they will feel better. And this can certainly be the outcome; however, I find that for most people, it is nearly impossible to change thoughts and/or behaviors, which are largely influenced by previous developmental/experiential inputs or traumatic life events, while ignoring or suppressing the related physical and emotional content driving them.
It is for the reasons outlined above that I often see the deeper, more long-term positive changes in clients resulting from a therapeutic approach involving the physical processing of suppressed emotions. I often say: “My job is to provide the safety, and your job is to take the risk.” While it is possible to “think” or “act” your way to feeling different, it is also true that one can physically and emotionally feel their way into thinking and acting different. Based on more than 10,000 sessions, the latter approach is the one I most often recommend taking.
Finally, if interested in more detail, or if you have additional questions with regard to how to get the most out of your therapeutic experience (while maximizing the chances of a positive therapeutic outcome), I wrote the following piece with that objective in mind. I hope you find it beneficial: (4 Steps to Get the Most Out of Your Counseling Experience!).
Fees (per 50-minute session):
- $130 per session (a sliding scale may be offered for those that qualify, please inquire if necessary).
- NOTE: I do have a strict 24-hour cancelation policy. While you will not lose out on your initial no-risk session if you have to cancel your first appointment with less than 24-hours’ notice, you would be financially responsible for the late cancelation of the originally scheduled session.
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