Adult Therapy

Navigating adulthood is existentially challenging at baseline. Add to the picture any number of obstacles, and life can feel simply too hard. As an experienced psychologist, I’ve helped my clients gain insights that add up to a whole new picture of life. We may be working on coming to terms with fixed circumstances. For example, other people will not change for us, or losses cannot be undone. At the same time, we can work together to adjust, finding the power you have to make changes and work with the contexts you can’t change.

While I have worked with people of all ages, and I encourage people across the lifespan to reach out, I have enjoyed working with young and pre-midlife adults struggling with balancing their careers, personal lives, and relationships. I find that helping a person adapt at these stages of development is an area in which I am skilled and have particular interest. New parents, early career professionals, college and post-college graduates, and people struggling to find employment are some examples of people who may enjoy working with me.

My approach is grounded in psychodynamic theory. This is depth, insight based therapy in which no aspect of your history or life is off the table. In addition, I focus on having a culturally sensitive approach that means the societal context is never taken for granted. I also utilize gestalt therapy to challenge my clients into becoming more mature, present, integrated, and free. In this form of therapy, we move into emotionally charged spaces. With a caring, nonjudgmental, and highly engaged therapist, my clients have gained more control over their lives than they had thought possible. My hope for all of my clients is to reorganize their experience of life so that their focus is on excitement and joy instead of being bogged down.

Please feel free to contact me from the contact page, or use the contact information listed at the bottom of this page. We can start with a brief phone call to see if I would be a good fit for you and go from there.