Although life cannot be happy all the time, life is easier when you enjoy your relationships, activities, family, and work. Individual psychotherapy can help you find a better balance. Instead of reacting to life challenges without thinking, we’ll work toward making your decision-making process conscious – identifying choices, accepting feelings, and taking responsibility for decisions.

At the same time, it’s important to be clear that taking responsibility for our decisions does not mean that we are responsible for what has happened to us.

You’ll learn to accept what is out of your control and reduce the energy devoted to trying to change it or other people. I have 14 years of experience with adults with a range of struggles: anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, grief and loss. For some clients, these symptoms have been life-long; for others they are recent. The length and type of treatment depends on the severity and length of your symptoms and the life circumstances that brought you to therapy.

Much of my work has been with people making large life transitions: new careers, babies, ending and beginning relationships, and coming out to name a few. I am particularly interested in working with people who have experienced forms of discrimination and whose identities have affected the ways that others have responded to them. Gay men, lesbians, and other queer people; people of color; and people with disabilities or chronic illnesses are all welcome.

Therapy is hard work. I’ll let you set the pace, but at times I’m going to move farther than you thought possible.