Psychotherapy is a collaborative and creative process that occurs within a trusting and respectful professional relationship in order to improve symptoms, restore health, and well-being, reach important goals, and facilitate desired changes. Treatment is more likely to succeed when there is a good fit between client and therapist, when clients invest time, thought and effort during and in between sessions, and when there is a clear and mutually-agreed upon purpose and plan that fits with the client’s value system.

My approach to psychotherapy is integrative and draws from relational-cultural therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. Treatment is individualized according to each client’s unique life context, strengths and resources, and readiness to change. An insight and process-oriented type of therapy may be appropriate for some clients’ concerns, whereas those who struggle with overwhelming emotions, unstable moods, impulsive or self-defeating behavior, and/or a history of unstable relationships may benefit more from a structured and skill-building approach such as dialectical behavior therapy