Difficulties in life, work, and relationships often evoke symptoms that are too much for us to handle on our own.  The work I do as a therapist is grounded in the practice of compassionate listening, understanding, and open-mindedness in helping individuals, couples, and families heal the symptoms and wounds that prevent them from enjoying life and living fully, with clear purpose and meaning.  I work diligently, patiently, and thoughtfully to help clients overcome obstacles and symptoms, drawing on my education in clinical psychology, passion for holistic healing traditions, and training in existential, humanistic, psychodynamic, and Jungian theory.

From my view, therapy offers a unique and sacred opportunity to engage our deepest human qualities. Among these qualities is the ability to consciously and intentionally shape our future through increased self-awareness and self-understanding; the ability to narrate, describe, and overcome past emotional, spiritual, and psychological wounds; and, ultimately, through increased self-care, compassion, and wellness, therapy encourages our abilities to positively contribute to and enrich our families, our communities, and the lives of those around us.

In my work with clients, this vital process of psychotherapeutic work and healing unfolds within the context of a safe, open-ended, and non-judgmental therapeutic relationship, which seeks to integrate the problem-solving practicality of modern scientific psychology with the insights of philosophy, spirituality, literature, and the arts.