If you are looking for a therapist, I assume it's because you are unhappy with some part of yourself: your life, your career, your relationships, the way you feel about yourself. The unhappiness can take many forms. You may feel depressed, or scared, or worried, or guilty, or angry, or ashamed.
My forte is psychodynamic psychotherapy, an approach based on the assumption that beneath the bad feelings that you are aware of, there is a network of other feelings, desires, ways of relating, wishes, dreams, aspirations, and standards, operating out of your awareness and therefore out of your control.
In dynamic psychotherapy, the goal is to help you understand those deeper feelings, see how they are interfering with your well-being, accept them as part of yourself, and, above all, after seeing and understanding, to help you change them.It's hard work. You're not aware of those deeper feelings because you don't want to be. They are deeply painful, and it seems easier to just ignore them.
But to really master them, you have to know them.
My forte is psychodynamic psychotherapy, an approach based on the assumption that beneath the bad feelings that you are aware of, there is a network of other feelings, desires, ways of relating, wishes, dreams, aspirations, and standards, operating out of your awareness and therefore out of your control.
In dynamic psychotherapy, the goal is to help you understand those deeper feelings, see how they are interfering with your well-being, accept them as part of yourself, and, above all, after seeing and understanding, to help you change them.It's hard work. You're not aware of those deeper feelings because you don't want to be. They are deeply painful, and it seems easier to just ignore them.
But to really master them, you have to know them.
Services
Sorry, I don't accept insurance.
See my discussion of this under "Common Questions".
I realize that many of you with insurance understandably want to use it.
If that's your situation, I'll be glad to help you find someone competent.
Call your insurance carrier, or go to their website, and get a list of therapists who accept that specific insurance.
If you email the list to me, I'll be glad to look it over and tell you of anyone on it whom I know and feel I can recommend.
No sliding fee scale, except at times for therapy frequencies of three or more times a week.
See my discussion of this under "Common Questions".
I realize that many of you with insurance understandably want to use it.
If that's your situation, I'll be glad to help you find someone competent.
Call your insurance carrier, or go to their website, and get a list of therapists who accept that specific insurance.
If you email the list to me, I'll be glad to look it over and tell you of anyone on it whom I know and feel I can recommend.
No sliding fee scale, except at times for therapy frequencies of three or more times a week.
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