About Therapy

Therapeutic Relationship

The most important part of therapy is the alliance between the client and the therapist. If you feel seen and heard by your therapist, you are more likely to benefit from going to therapy.

Our working relationship will be the foundation for the “real work” we’ll do together. I value this relationship highly and strive to ensure our time together is a time you feel seen, heard, safe, and accepted.

Our Work Together

Our sessions will be a dynamic dialogue—a conversation. We will combine current evidence-based approaches to help you gain insight and understanding about your past, while also helping you to identify ways you can get immediate relief from your symptoms in the present day.

As we move through our work together, there may be some laughter and tears.

I will be with you each step of the way.

Doing What’s Effective

Emotional storms are a part of life. At times, these emotional storms can be overwhelming, chaotic, and intolerable.

This is why we will work together to help you build an “emergency kit” of practical skills to better tolerate anxiety, depression, or emotional storms when they arise.

Learning more effective ways of navigating these emotional storms will ultimately help get you closer to your long-term goals.

Building a Meaningful Life

An additional part of our work will help you identify what a meaningful life may look like for you and how you can achieve that.

We will work together to identify ways you can fill your life with behaviors, relationships, and activities that bring meaning to your life—things that make you feel like you want to wake up in the morning, increase your motivation, and replace other, less effective behaviors.