Discover How Your Mental, Somatically intelligent, and Mindful Selves are Intertwined.
An Integrated Approach
As individuals and as psychologists, I believe in living an integrated life and supporting my clients in doing the same; we try to live in alignment as well, and to practice from an integrated model. My hope is to provide a space where you can discover how your mental, physical, and spiritual selves are intertwined. From this sound place, we then extend into healthy relationships with our spouse and children, parents and siblings, other family members, friends, and people we work with. When we honor these connections and nurture each part of our Selves, we can be fully integrated, open to forming deeper connections with those most important in our lives.
My Approach
I am a licensed psychologist who specializes in treating adults, individually and as couples. I approach therapy by first deeply exploring my client’s attachment history, so we have a ‘map’ of how they think about, feel, and behave in relationships, and so that we clearly identify their unconscious expectations of, and how they interact with, the Other. Then we get to work on building a healthy, deeply caring therapy relationship, which we can observe and learn from, while discussing all aspects of my client and their other relationships. All the while, we discuss what aspects of my client’s ‘map’ serve them and should stay the same as well, as what aspects don’t and should be changed. A core belief I hold, as an individual and therapist, is that it is not possible to have a healthy relationship without the ability to engage in what I call ‘Productive Conflict’. I am continually astonished by the conflict avoidance, or nonproductive conflict I see all around me, in and out of the therapy office, although I think the simple reason for this is we are not taught ‘the how’s’ of productive conflict growing up or even as adults.