Compassionate directness

I’m direct and willing to have hard conversations. If I notice a pattern or behavior that seems to be getting in your way, I’ll let you know, always with compassion, curiosity, and an understanding of why that pattern developed in the first place.

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Practical tools, strategies, and skills

I like to give you practical, concrete ways to handle the things you’re struggling with. That includes tools for responding to your thoughts and emotions more effectively, changing patterns that make life harder, and trying new ways of doing things in your everyday life. You’ll likely learn something you haven’t tried before, or learn a different way to use something you’ve tried in the past.

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Focus

I see it as my job to help keep our work focused on what brought you to therapy in the first place. Life will continue to happen while we’re working together, and sometimes what happened during your week needs our attention. But I’ll also help us come back to the larger patterns and goals you most want to be different, so that we can make the most progress in the shortest amount of time.

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Depth

People tend to feel comfortable opening up with me fairly quickly. I listen deeply for the patterns and underlying issues that seem most important, and I ask substantive questions from the beginning so we can focus on what really matters. We’ll bring in your history and background as it becomes relevant to what we’re working on. That helps us make connections, understand what’s underneath the patterns you’re struggling with, and stay focused on the changes you want to make.