Symptom Relief

- Develop mutual trust and respect
- Sharing information
- Learn to see how you are in the world
- I offer ideas and questions about what you tell me
- Discover underlying causes of the original symptoms

In short, we begin the dialogue. You offer the information you're ready to share - things such as how you experience life, your feelings, concerns, facts about what is going on in your relationships. I offer ideas or questions about what you tell me based on my expertise in human emotions and interaction and my extensive experience as a therapist working with individuals, couples, or groups. Together, we find out which ideas make sense and how they can be useful in your life.

Of course, psychotherapy isn't quite as simple as I've described. More often than not, my patients are in a great amount of pain when we first meet; each for very different reasons. So the course of treatment is never identical from one person to another. I draw on a multitude of theories to focus on immediate relief from the symptoms with which a patient presents. And although a private practitioner, I established my office with several colleagues so that we can collaborate, exchange information and ideas, and when called for, provide a co-therapy.

Through continued therapy sessions, patients learn to see their behavior - how they are in the world - as a collection of their experiences, upbringing, and an effort to get what they desire. They can then apply the insight gained in my office to their lives and relationships to make meaningful differences in their experiences. Patients find themselves curious and ultimately, are led to discover the underlying causes of the original symptoms.