By providing a window to your thoughts, feelings, and behavior, psychotherapy can provide a vantage point for creating greater life satisfaction. Generally, when people are feeling stuck, perspective is lost. Working with a psychologist one-on-one in individual therapy, with others in a therapy group, or in couples counseling, new options may come into view, and along with this, the possibility for making new choices.
As a licensed clinical psychologist with more than 35 years of experience, I specialize in goal-focused work that involves active collaboration. This approach is particularly well-suited to clients at inflection points, when solutions are needed, and change is critical. This includes parents of failure-to-launch young adults, individuals seeking to moderate their drinking, and those looking to intervene more effectively when a loved-one is struggling with substance abuse.
I respect each individual’s unique ways of adapting and understand the importance of developing resilience-to-change in order to effectively cope with major life transitions (job change, marriage, divorce, retirement, illness). Without such resilience, life can feel overwhelming, self esteem becomes precarious, and mood can dip dramatically.
I help clients to find more satisfactory ways of dealing with these stressful life events, and to understand and manage the accompanying feelings. In addition, our work helps clients to feel more empowered and to deal with family-of-origin issues and self-defeating behaviors.
More about my clinical work can be found in my recent posts.