Therapy Services

Have compassion on everyone you meet
Even if they don’t want it. What seems conceit,
Bad manners, or cynicism is always a sign
Of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen.
You do not know what wars are going on
Down there where the spirit meets the bone.

-MILLER WILLIAMS, “Compassion”

Psychotherapy is a compassionate space in which the things we carry inside may be known and thought about. Where complaint is not dismissed and apprehension can tell its side of things. Where we are not alone in our efforts to bear what is difficult and make sense of our experience.

In therapy we begin where you are. As therapist, I listen with you to what has been ‘drawing a crowd’ in your mind. What emerges over time as we attend to your experience often has a way of loosening knots and freeing up movement towards growth.

Therapy is a space for:

  • Slowing down
  • Getting your experience to someone
  • Finding and feeling your feelings
  • Getting to know your mind
  • Listening to patterns
  • Pursuing new patterns
  • Facing obstructions to your aliveness
  • Developing helpful insights about yourself, your story, and your relationships
  • Learning from experience
  • Becoming a friend to yourself

I welcome individuals of all walks of life. I commonly work with issues of:

  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Bipolar
  • ADHD (Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder) – difficulty regulating attention, focus, time, planning, and impulsivity
  • Difficult transitions/adjustments
  • Family of origin experience and impact
  • Emerging adulthood
  • Relational difficulties
  • Work and vocational distress
  • Self-exploration and personal growth, e.g. self-esteem, understanding relational style, attachment patterns, psychic defenses, strengths, vulnerabilities
  • Impact of abuse and neglect
  • PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder)
  • The immigrant and refugee experience / cross-cultural living with its unique stressors
  • Religion and spirituality: I welcome those for whom religious identity and practice have been formative in their lives and who may wish to engage theological categories in therapy or to process the personal impact of past religious environments