Adult Psychotherapy

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I have extensive post-graduate training in psychotherapy with adults and continue to teach and supervise other clinicians in the practice of psychotherapy with adults.

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 I approach psychotherapy with adults as a collaborative process. While listening carefully to my clients, I offer observations, insights, advice and skill-building exercises. I encourage my clients to share their reactions and observations to my therapeutic suggestions.  This give and take process guides our ongoing work and is critical in evaluating what is working and what is the most effective direction for treatment.

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 While each person and treatment is unique, I think of therapy as moving along two paths. One is to help people find a rich and meaningful life and relationships. Often, this entails being able to safely address painful emotions, within a reflective process that provides space to sit with, and delve deeply into, one’s internal world, interpersonal relationships, past history and professional life.  This psychoanalytically-informed approach draws on a long Western spiritual tradition in which self-awareness and understanding play a central role in self-transformation.

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The other path of therapy centers on learning new skills and new ways of seeing oneself. It is less focused on the ‘why’ and more on the ‘how to’. I work to increase clients’ capacity to sooth themselves, to find adaptive solutions to problems of living, and to alter maladaptive thought patterns that reinforce poor self-esteem, sadness and stress. This work incorporates techniques from cognitive-behavioral therapy, dialectical-behavioral therapy and the approach I have developed, Habits of Mind practice.