Therapy Modalities

Like Freud recommended, I came to this work from literature; books have been my best friends for as long as I can remember. The most dynamic stories, though, are the ones I meet in person. Their themes are rich and evocative. Inside me and beside me and around me, none of us can avoid or ignore discomfort, rejection, chaos, and agony. But resilience, love, hope, connection, and change: these themes can loom even larger. How do we emphasize them in our lives?
I work psychodynamically; I don’t follow a workbook or script. It’s the depth and breadth of a dynamic approach that feels best suited to the way I think about increasing self-awareness. From there, I think growth follows. As Shedler suggests, in slowing down, we learn about ourselves, and we introduce new and beautiful choices.
A believer in the “aesthetic life,” I am artistically inclined. I organize my spices by color on their rack, I go outside to watch the sunset, and every weekend I arrange flowers in a vase on my table. But I will always find humanity itself the most beautiful. My every encounter with it feels like a gift.