The purpose of therapy is for you to more deeply discover who you are, what you want, and how to get it. The philosophy underlying my work is that most psychogenic suffering stems from the following sources:

• Unexamined trauma – painful experiences that subconsciously shape our core values, sense-of-self, and interactions with others  

• Existential dread: Fear that one’s life or suffering is meaningless or insignificant

• Isolation anxiety: Feeling an impenetrable emotional or spiritual separateness from others

• Identity anxiety: Distress that arises when one is not living authentically

• Death anxiety: Distress generated by subconscious resistance to accepting one’s finite nature.

• The burden of freedom: People often become “stuck” when they face resistance to living authentically. Nonetheless, we each bear sole responsibility for living purposefully and defining our own life’s meaning.

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Beginning therapy is similar to taking a trip to an unknown destination with someone you don’t know well yet. The therapeutic journey can be intense, engaging, exciting, and collaborative. Together, we will explore how your current patterns of thinking, feeling, and acting took shape and have impacted your ability to live meaningfully and authentically. 

This means that during our sessions we won’t focus on how you can control your emotions more completely; instead, we will focus on how you can feel your feelings and experiences—both joy and sorrow—with more depth and authenticity both in therapy and in the world.

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I am honored to be invited into your voyage of self-discovery and empowerment, and so grateful our paths have converged.