Talking with a therapist can help a person grow in many ways, and feel better. I emphasize contemporary and traditional methods that focus on mental and emotional growth. Each client's strengths and talents are used as the foremost tools for change. Individual therapy consists of regularly scheduled, fifty-minute, one-on-one meetings in a comfortable, private setting.

I believe that each person is unique, with complex life circumstances that have contributed to their development. Careful listening and discussion will clarify areas where each person can change and grow. I guarantee confidentiality, privacy, and I maintain the highest ethical standards for therapy. Growth occurs through the use of methods that help you understand and change mental and emotional patterns that interfere with your development.

One of the great misconceptions is that therapy is for 'sick' people. The current health care system leads us to believe that you have to have a diagnosable mental illness to receive therapy. People at any stage of life can grow in ways that make their lives better. You don't have to be 'sick' to want to change. Responding to distress is among the most important ways that our minds grow, from infancy through old age. Symptoms of mental and emotional distress can tell us a lot about areas each person has been hurt in their lives, and about the ways in which each person can grow. It is growth that makes the symptoms go away.