TREATMENT APPROACH
INDIVIDUALS
It is important to create a confidential and safe space in which people feel free to say what is on their mind. After listening carefully, I comment or ask a question with the aim of broadening our exploration. In addition to helping a person resolve their conscious concerns, my job is to notice when unconscious wishes, fears, inhibitions and other emotions are being expressed in various ways—such as in dreams, many life choices or physical symptoms. We explore how current life feelings and experiences are often shaped by significant childhood history. Our unconscious is, by definition, out of our awareness. Understanding its influence on us is one way therapy can help overcome repetitive ways of thinking, feeling or behaving, which often interfere with self acceptance, fulfillment, and success in relationships, school, or work.
COUPLES
Couples need to find a balance between recognizing each individual’s need for a sense of identity (me), and honoring the other’s identity (you). At the same time, they need to be thinking and behaving in ways that support the relationship (us), which they created to sustain and hold them. In the best of all outcomes, couples develop the ability to move from stuck patterns of alienation and conflict. Each person begins to own their contribution to the problem so they can together expand their capacities for insight, empathy, acceptance, authenticity, and intimacy.
It is important to create a confidential and safe space in which people feel free to say what is on their mind. After listening carefully, I comment or ask a question with the aim of broadening our exploration. In addition to helping a person resolve their conscious concerns, my job is to notice when unconscious wishes, fears, inhibitions and other emotions are being expressed in various ways—such as in dreams, many life choices or physical symptoms. We explore how current life feelings and experiences are often shaped by significant childhood history. Our unconscious is, by definition, out of our awareness. Understanding its influence on us is one way therapy can help overcome repetitive ways of thinking, feeling or behaving, which often interfere with self acceptance, fulfillment, and success in relationships, school, or work.
COUPLES
Couples need to find a balance between recognizing each individual’s need for a sense of identity (me), and honoring the other’s identity (you). At the same time, they need to be thinking and behaving in ways that support the relationship (us), which they created to sustain and hold them. In the best of all outcomes, couples develop the ability to move from stuck patterns of alienation and conflict. Each person begins to own their contribution to the problem so they can together expand their capacities for insight, empathy, acceptance, authenticity, and intimacy.