Currently I am offering in-person sessions in West Seattle on Mondays and video sessions Tuesday through Friday.

Taking the time and effort to increase self-awareness and explore your behavioral patterns and thoughts can be one of the most valuable things that you do in your life. Seeking therapy is a sign of personal strength, not of weakness. Therapy is one method to explore how your thoughts, feelings and behaviors influence your daily choices and relationships. Maybe they are not always in sync. Working with a licensed therapist can provide the objective and knowledgeable feedback needed to identify specific barriers, define and develop goals and gain the valuable skills, confidence and motivation to make that change.

Often people who engage in therapy are actually doing "fine" in life, but would like to improve in one area or another. Benefits of therapy may include improved and more satisfying relationships with friends, partners and family members. You may feel increased energy and productivity, less stress and an overall improved sense of well-being.

I believe the therapeutic relationship is a core part of eliciting change. When you feel safe, validated and supported, you can tap into those conscious and unconscious choices and emotions. We will work together to gain insight, explore different perspectives, utilize your inherent strengths, and try to experience emotions vs. control or avoidance . It is my goal that you will walk away from our sessions with new ideas, strategies, readings, information and skills that you can practice or reflect on that will directly affect the way that you relate to the world around you.

My approach to couples and individual therapy is process oriented and aimed at increasing awareness and choice. We all have needs in our lives that we seek to have met. To be seen, respected, loved, included, supported, etc. Our experience with our families of origin often set the roadmap for how we go about getting these needs met. Sometimes our strategies are effective and sometimes they are destructive and contrary at their worst. I help to support you in increasing insight, experimenting with different strategies and clarifying your and your partner’s needs. It is not my approach to focus on one person to change or to determine who is wrong or right.