Asking for help is a sign of strength.

Hi and welcome. If you’re here it’s probably because something is troubling you and you are looking for some help. We all need someone to talk to now and then and looking for a therapist is a very self-affirming thing to do.

I don’t yet know, specifically, what’s causing stress but if it’s hard to feel good about yourself, if intense feelings grip you unexpectedly, if relationships are fraught with frustrating interactions which are chronic and repetitive, a place to come where you won’t be judged is a good beginning. It can give you the time you need to hear yourself without someone else’s opinions or agendas interfering. It can eventually give you room to experiment with incremental changes in your life, if you so choose. And it can slowly give you a greater sense of confidence in your ability to manage stressful situations.

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I look forward to helping you make the first step toward your well being.

The Benefits of Therapy

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Perhaps you’ve reached the end of your rope…you can no longer tolerate feeling this bad, day after day. Sometimes, all that is needed is for us to look at what’s stressing you from a slightly different perspective and solutions will emerge where things once appeared hopeless. A brief, collaborative relationship with an attuned therapist might be all you need to alter the situation and the conflicted feelings you face.

But some issues are more challenging. Repetitive bouts of anxiety, depression, or inner conflict can require a closer look, a longer collaboration. The hurt and anger, the doubts about your worth or abilities, can be old, painfully familiar feelings re-emerging under present circumstances.

Often we are plagued with self-doubt; nothing we do is good-enough, we feel ineffectual at work or in our personal life. We feel not smart enough, not attractive enough, not capable or competent enough. Or we fear the loss of relationships; we fear angering someone irrevocably if we try to express a need or feeling that’s different from theirs. We’re afraid of hurting someone so much that they’ll abandon us altogether. Or we feel trapped in an abusive relationship or unfulfilling job yet are afraid to leave.

These are normal fears…very disturbing and anxiety-provoking, but normal. They attest to the necessity of valued connections in our lives and the lengths to which we’ll go to retain them. Psychotherapy, from a contemporary- relational perspective, is specifically designed to provide a growth-enhancing environment to work on all of these feelings and conflicts.

I can say, unequivocally, that there is nothing more powerful than human understanding. I have full confidence that whatever you’re going through right now can be modified in a positive direction as we come to understand it together. And gradually, you will develop a greater sense of calm, competence, and self-assurance as we do so.

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“Nothing is as powerful as human understanding.”

George Atwood, PhD