Pronouns: He/him/his
Therapy Style: Affirming, Collaborative, Strengths-Based
My career began in 1990 as a group home counselor for adolescents in foster care. It was challenging and rewarding. The rewards began to increase as I saw the impact of: a caring spirit, dedication to the craft, and the lessons learned through my own personal adversity. My outlook has been shaped by the dedication and teamwork of colleagues I have collaborated with, in many settings and roles, and by the courageous clients I have been honored to work with. Now, I provide individual therapy to adults experiencing anxiety, depression, stressful life transitions, and other issues.
In the process of our work together, I strive to help clients understand their most vital emotional / psychological needs, and identify which ones are not being met. Ideally, clients begin to envision how to better address their unmet needs – by changing the conditions around them, or undertaking new behaviors, or developing more empowering attitudes about their current conditions, or their untapped opportunities in the future. Together we develop an individualized plan that guides the process of change.
I am especially focused on the power of creativity for healing, for coping, and for achieving our highest potential. Developing a caring and trusting therapeutic relationship is enhanced when there is a focus on strengths, and I am especially attuned to the strengths, and potential, in others. Virtually all of us can benefit from this simple advice: “quiet the mind and open the heart.” Unfortunately, our stressful environments are pressuring us to do the opposite. But, through targeted tools and practices, we can observe our thinking and emotions more objectively, accept what we cannot control, develop more compassion for ourselves and others, refuse to be defined by the worst things that happened to us, and can take action toward our true values and purpose.
Lic # 82923
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
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