THERAPY SERVICES
Whether I am working with adults, couples or adolescents and their families, I offer individuals a deep-felt respect for the immediate urgencies of their lives, as well as for their long-term aspirations. With a well-seasoned background in contemporary depth-psychotherapy, I work to help my clients recognize the underlying forces that shape – and constrict – their lives and to empower them to break out of the self-limiting eddies in which they are caught.
Not knowing the source of these powerful forces, or how to release oneself from their spell, can lead to disruption and suffering in one’s emotional life, physical health and intimate relationships. Often when people come to understand and accept the emotional (and behavioral) strategies they needed to devise to protect their vulnerabilities, they can then begin to risk creating new possibilities where none existed before.
Since every relationship, like a signature, is unique, therapist and client can never know precisely what psychological terrain they will encounter as they embark upon a new therapy. In a very real way, both take a leap of faith into the unknown when they enter into a therapy relationship. Whatever the starting point of a therapy – and however it unfolds – I strive to convey a sense of what it feels like for each of my clients to be human while longing to become more fully human in my presence and in their lives.
Together we learn to listen to the deeper stirrings and poetry of the self, allowing each person’s distinctive voice to find its own rhythm and expression.
I maintain offices in both San Francisco and Berkeley to allow my clients to more readily access my therapy services.
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