What is psychotherapy?

A collaborative relationship focused on understanding your life and mind — and making real change possible.

“It is never too late to become what you might have been.”

George Eliot

— A relationship between therapist and patient, focused on exploring your life, feelings and relationships

— The goal: meaningful relief from symptoms and an overall improvement in your life

— Not like school — the therapist doesn’t tell you what to do; it is a collaborative meeting of two minds

— Both a thoughtful, intellectual process and a deeply emotional one

— Guide, facilitator, analyst and warm supporter

— Listens closely and responds in ways that deepen the conversation

— Helps bring new insight into problems that wasn’t there before

— Builds a relationship of trust that grows over time

— Offered to children, adolescents and adults

— Explores how your history shaped your strengths and difficulties today

— Pays close attention to the lasting effects of painful or traumatic experiences

— Looks at how past wounds may repeat in the present, so they can heal over time

“We may have forgotten our traumas, but our traumas rarely forget about us.”

A brief, confidential phone call is an easy place to begin. The first consultation is complimentary.