I believe in you.
When it comes to your life, I believe that you are the expert. I say this because I honestly do not know more about you than you do. If you are looking for someone to tell you who you are, why you have been engaging in certain behaviors, or whether you are leading a “healthy” or “unhealthy” lifestyle, then I am not the one for you.
People who have worked with me often say that our sessions feel like conversations. My therapeutic style is collaborative, conversational, and solution-focused. My goal is to ask you questions that will bring to light what matters to you, what’s getting in the way of your preferred life, and what resources you have that can help you with today’s life projects.
I respect where you are in your life and firmly believe that you are capable of deciding where you want it to go.
Change is messy.
I have had the great fortune of witnessing tremendous changes in people, seeing clients turn their lives around in ways they and those around them envisioned were absolutely impossible. Getting there, however, can be messy.
Change doesn’t come in a neat, linear package. There will be setbacks and frustrations. Progress might feel slow, but I can appreciate your tiny strides as much as your huge ones towards change. Sometimes the tiny ones feel huge to you and no one else acknowledges them.
My job is to hold onto hope for you when it’s difficult for you to do so your own.
You are dynamic.
Our problems do not live in a vacuum. Rather than seeing challenges as static conditions, I view them as conditional states of being.
In my conversations with clients, I often ask: Who is around you? What is your relationship like with those people? How do your feelings or perceptions change when you are in a different environment?
I see that the amount of power a problem has over a person changes constantly, depending on how the environment changes. When you begin seeing yourself as dynamic, the possibilities become endless.
It’s important to me to distinguish your dreams from the destinations that society has laid out for you. Together, we will work to find out what parts of your life you hope to change, keep, or enrich. For me, what’s most important is helping you move towards your own hopes and dreams.