I offer both short-term counseling and longer-term psychotherapy with adolescents and adults. During the initial in-person session you and I will be able to talk together about the fit between your needs and what I offer. After our first few sessions I will be able to offer you some ideas for what our work can include based on how I understand your goals and needs.

Counseling Approach and style
My approach to the counseling/psychotherapy relationship is collaborative and active. My goal is to help you feel comfortable about sharing what’s most important to you and to assist you in best meeting your goals. My theoretical orientation is integrationist and I will draw upon the principles of humanistic, interpersonal, cognitive-behavioral, and mindfulness approaches according to your presenting concerns and needs. Most important to our work is the trusting, nurturing therapy relationship that we build together as we focus on helping you take positive steps toward your goals.

Short-term Counseling
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Longer Term Psychotherapy
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Short-term Counseling

Between 4-6 sessions
Areas of focus might include:

• Academic counseling
  Developing strategies to address difficulties with time management, distractibility, procrastination, perfectionism, organization and planning, decision making; exploring strategies to maximize your approach to learning; developing more effective, reading and writing strategies; learning strategies for managing ADHD.
• Career counseling
  Exploring your interests, skills, values and how to use that knowledge to inform your exploration of possible careers; learning how to engage in and trust oneself in the career decision making process.
• Developmental concerns
  Gaining skills and support to help you with the adjustment to college/graduate school, making friends, pursuing romantic relationships, and learning to trust oneself in important domains such as school, work and relationships.
  
• Life transitions
  Gaining skills and support to deal with challenging transitions and life experiences such as managing health concerns, acculturating to a new culture, getting married, changing jobs, etc.
  
• Communication strategies
  Developing healthy and effective communication strategies to improve your relationships with friends, family, co-workers.
  
• Stress management
  Increasing the capacity to manage stress and developing the ability to use healthy coping strategies through in-session guided relaxation exercises, breathing exercises, and learning strategies for developing adaptive thinking patterns.
  
• Crisis management
  Talking through your immediate reactions to a recent loss/break up/life transition.
  
• Consultation around next steps including psychotherapy with me and/or other options Referral to other resources such as group psychotherapy or meeting with another therapist who may be a better match for helping you meet your goals.
  

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Longer Term Psychotherapy

Number and frequency of sessions will vary and we can decide this together based on such variables as your needs, goals, and financial feasibility.
Areas of focus might include:

• Self esteem
  Building confidence, self-acceptance, and a secure sense of identity.
• Anxiety and depression
  Increasing the capacity to manage anxiety and depression and developing coping skills to enhance daily living.
• ADHD
  Developing coping skills to manage difficulties in core areas such as organization/planning, reducing distractibility and managing procrastination; exploring what ADHD means to you in terms of your strengths and limitations; exploring issues such as when to self-disclose to friends/family/supervisors, and how to talk about ADHD with others.
  
• Eating and body image concerns
  Recovering from eating and body image concerns and nurturing a positive relationship with food and with your body.
  
• Perfectionism
  Exploring the distinction between motivation for healthy achievement from perfectionism and overcoming some of the pitfalls of perfectionism.
  
• Loss, grief and trauma
  Gaining skills and support to engage in the grief process and begin to heal from the loss of a significant relationship in your life; or the experience of a traumatic life event whether experienced or witnessed.
  
• Relationship issues
  Learning to trust oneself in relationships with others; developing healthy and effective communication strategies to improve your relationships with friends, family, co-workers.
• Couples Counseling
  Learning to better communicate around difficult issues; exploring strategies to allow for better understanding of one another; and building the skills that sustain a healthy relationship.
• Life transitions
  Gaining skills and support to deal with challenging transitions and life experiences such as managing health concerns, acculturating to a new culture, getting married, changing jobs, etc.
• Self exploration and understanding
  Exploring feelings and thoughts to increase self-knowledge and insight .

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