About Therapy
My aim as a therapist is to work with you to help you feel better and enjoy your own life more. In our sessions, we'll start from whatever brings you to therapy. We'll go at whatever pace is safe for you. We'll keep working together for as long as you like: I work both short- and long-term, though therapy often works best if we can develop a good relationship over time.
Issues You Might Bring
Among the issues you might bring are
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trauma from childhood or later relationships
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anxiety, depression, or struggles with managing intense emotions
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problems with loss and grieving
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questions about gender or sexuality
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problems with sex or eating
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intrusive thoughts or voices
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experiences of dissociation from yourself or others
and many others. If you have a diagnosis, that can be part of our conversation. Therapy often begins with an issue that has become a crisis: overwhelming, unbearable, or a real problem in your work or relationships. Where it unfolds from there is something we will discover together. ​
About Integration
Integrative therapy brings together several different traditions, especially humanistic and psychodynamic ones. Part of this is helping you to make sense of your own deepest feelings and desires: to know yourself and want to become yourself. In practice, this means empathy and dialogue. The other part is working with unconscious parts of yourself. In practice, that means becoming curious about dreams, fantasies, and anything that seems to come into your mind without your conscious choice. We may also use drawings. The goal is to change the way you feel about yourself and the world around you and create new possibilities for action and experience.
