Brief Therapy
Our Approach
Every service we offer is informed by our brief therapy approach. Starting with the assumption that clients have the necessary resources for responding effectively to the challenges they are facing, we work as consultants to help them resolve conundrums and find and implement solutions.
Whether we are meeting with individuals, couples, or families, we are committed to working as efficiently as possible. We see our clients long enough for their situation to turn around, but not so long that they start thinking we need to be a continual fixture in their lives. As soon as possible and warranted, we take a step back and celebrate their ability to continue changing and adapting without us.
Individual Therapy
Our Approach
Some psychotherapists follow the medical model—they strive to diagnose some kind of “illness” as a starting point for helping. Such an approach works great for problems such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes, but it often isn’t warranted when it comes to difficulties you’re having with yourself—problematic thoughts, emotions, or behaviors—or difficulties you’re having with others.
We head in a different direction. We’ll want to make sense of your situation within the context of your history and your interpersonal relationships, and we’ll want a clear and thorough understanding of how you feel entangled. But rather than attempting to nail down a diagnosis of what’s wrong with you, we’ll be searching and listening for your strengths and capacities—the very resources that will help facilitate a disentangling.
Couple Therapy & Sex Therapy
Our Approach
Family Therapy
Our Approach
Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy
Our Approach
If you’ve seen hypnosis performed for entertainment on TV or the internet, you’ve witnessed the hypnotist transgressing social boundaries as a means of forging and exploiting the hypnotic subject’s mind-body connection. Nothing of the sort will occur if you pursue clinical hypnotherapy. I will respectfully invite you into a trance as a means of facilitating an effortless shift in your experience of yourself and in the unconscious workings of your mind-body connection. Hypnotherapy is an excellent way of transforming and ameliorating anxiety and panic; pain; depression; a variety of somatic complaints; problematic thoughts, urges, and behaviors; and various addictive cycles involving alcohol, drugs, food, and/or behaviors. I often teach my clients self-hypnosis, giving them the means to access their mind-body connection whenever warranted.
If you are interested, you can check out some articles on hypnosis that I’ve written for professionals.