My Approach
What can you expect from therapy with me?
Compassion.
Heart-to-Heart connection.
I am a client-centered therapist, which means I show up and you show up and the process begins.
Change happens when the trust-based therapeutic process allows such changes.
I will not profess to know more about you than you know about you...
I believe that within you in the person you want to be and my job, as I see it, is to help you remember who you are -- the WHOLE and complete you.
How do we do this?
I use a number of techniques and approaches...
The most common is process via communication: You talk and I listen. I am a sounding board for your stream of consciousness. As you talk and share your stories, and the feelings you have about your stories, and the thoughts you have about your stories, the dialogue becomes deeper and deeper...
In this depth of dialogue healing begins.
It might look like realizations.
It might look like "Aha!" moments.
It might look like new perceptions.
It might look like revelations.
Another approach that I use is to assign homework.
It may be journalling or watching a video or reading a book or making a list of things you appreciate about yourself.
Really, the best of therapy happens in between sessions when a client is able to put on their lab coat and try new experiments (or different ways of doing things) in their lives.
I absolutely hold my clients accountable for their own growth and healing back to wholeness.
I do not do their work for them and never never work harder at their recovery than they do...
I am an instrument of compassion and wisdom.