With the goal of creating lasting change, I use an integrative approach, combining insight based and skills based approaches to tailor the most effective treatment for your needs and style.

Towards this end, I believe that some of the benefits of therapy include the increased ability to feel:

  • Better in control of your moods and feelings

  • More in touch with your authentic self

  • Less constrained by old patterns of behavior and relating

  • Better able to set and achieve goals

  • Freed from past hurts and grief

  • Able to relate to others more fully and flexibly



Some specific techniques that I use include the following:

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a short-term, goal-oriented psychotherapy treatment that takes a hands-on, practical approach to problem-solving.

CBT focuses on challenging and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia

Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-i) guides patients through a series of changes in sleep-related behaviors. The focus is on addressing the three factors that contribute to the persistence of insomnia:

1.        Conditioned arousal

2.        Identifying and eliminating habits that were developed in an effort to improve sleep but have become ineffective.

3.        Reducing sleep-related worry and other sources of heightened arousal.

The therapist identifies the most relevant targets for behavior changes, and helps patients overcome obstacles to making the necessary and often difficult changes in sleep-related behaviors. This means that individual patients can concentrate their energy on changes that are most likely to produce improvements in their sleep.  

Relational Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Relational psychodynamic psychotherapy is an approach that can help individuals recognize the role relationships play in the shaping of daily experiences and attempts to help people understand patterns appearing in the thoughts and feelings they have toward themselves and others.

The primary goal of relational psychotherapy is to help those seeking help better understand how they operate in relation to others and how their relating patters can have an impact on mental and emotional well-being. Therapists can also help individuals better understand and take into consideration the effects of differences in power or equality as well as the impact of social issues such as class, race, gender, and culture.

 
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I am a results-oriented therapist: I want you to feel like you are getting something out of the therapeutic work that you can take away with you.  My role is to help you identify obstacles to change and to work collaboratively to develop new strategies that are effective towards meeting your goals.