my thoughts on how this works

Within our developing relationship, it is our goal to get to know you.   

We will uncover, recover & perhaps even discover all the parts of you.  

our ultimate goal is for you to learn to embrace, work with, and love all the things that make you, YOU.  

This work is about how you relate to yourself and how you relate to me.  It is about what happens when you and I spend time learning more about how you have found yourself here & now.  It’s about the ways in which you have been harmed, the pain that you’ve carried, the grief that has shaped you and the coping mechanisms and defenses that you have adopted in order to keep on keeping on.  I will bring my curiosity and my awareness to your thoughts, your feelings, and your behavior.  I will draw from a variety of therapeutic styles & approaches, but I will focus on an interpersonal, relational dynamic. 

This means that you impact me & I impact you, just like any other relationship.  

My hope is to create environment where curiosity takes precedent.  I believe there is deeper meaning underneath your thoughts, behavior and relational style.  I want to offer you more than scratching the surface, or putting a band-aid on your pain.  I want to get to the root.  This is where the work is; this is where the deeper, more meaningful change happens.