The bottom line is this: psychotherapy should be affordable, smart, efficient, and caring. As I practice it, counseling involves helping persons understand their own nature and, especially, their desires and needs. Counseling offers a sanctuary for persons to sort out their lives and more intimately explore their direct experience. My practice is dedicated to the process of authentic transformation, arising from the client's and therapist's co-exploration of "what is." My commitment to the methods of insight-oriented and mindfulness-based psychotherapy, which involve the careful tracing out of the threads of desire and fear in our lives, guides me in helping people find their optimal path and place in life. Expert with Adults, Military Veterans, Academics, & Creatives. Areas of Therapeutic Focus include: INTERPERSONAL (finding connection; working through ambivalence); MOOD (rediscovering pleasure; defeating boredom or fear; building compassion); EXISTENTIAL (finding meaning; enhancing "being"); GOAL ACHIEVEMENT (becoming productive; undoing self-defeat); TRAUMA (living with loss; resolving grief); & IDENTITY (seeking uniqueness).
Qualifications: | University of Texas at Austin |
---|---|
Academic Suffixes: | PhD, LCSW |
Expertise: | Addiction, Anger Management, Anxiety, Coping Skills, Depression, Divorce, Emotional Disturbance, Grief, Marital and Premarital, Other, Relationship Issues, Self Esteem, Sleep or Insomnia, Stress, Trauma and PTSD, Veterans |