“Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.”
-David Richo
Family therapy: helps to understand and address problems by improving patterns of interaction between family members. It is designed to improve communication, resolve conflict, and strengthen relationships within the family unit. This type of therapy is generally short-term and geared towards achieving specific goals.
Couples therapy: Maintaining a relationship involves the union of two separate individuals who often have differing needs, expectations, communication styles, and psychological make-ups. Whether you’re encountering problems with your partner or just want to help your relationship get off to a healthy start, couples therapy is a valuable tool that can increase the effectiveness of your communication, deepen empathy toward each other, and address conflict more productively.
I use an eclectic style with couples, a combination of psychodynamic, relational, and behavioral principles and techniques best suited to help each couple reach their goals.
Consultation
I understand the value of professional collaboration with others in the mental health field as well as professionals in allied disciplines. For this reason, I offer consultation to interested clinicians and allied professionals, in both individual and group settings, on topic such as:
- Techniques of psychotherapy with children and adults
- Working with children of divorce or parental conflict
- Working with children who have an incarcerated parent
- Grief and loss
- Collaboration with other professionals
- Countertransference issues
- Selected forensic issues
- How to stay out of court
- How to testify if necessary
- Sexual abuse allegations
- Forensically sensitive therapy with children
- Reunification therapy with children separated or estranged from a parent
- Consultation to attorneys on domestic and criminal cases