In an intake session, I will ask you to share your story about your present-day symptoms, struggles, and difficulties. We’ll then work together to identify the core problems to be addressed in therapy while gathering background information. In subsequent sessions, we will work together to assess the origins and explore the scope of your presenting problems. We will work collaboratively to help you gain insight and understanding of what might be at the root of your struggles with anxiety, depression or your relationship problems. Using an in-depth personal history and an account of your life experiences, we will observe, analyze, and categorize your presenting problems and their origins to provide you with insights about the nature of your current symptoms.

My philosophy is ‘what + why = how’; where working on revealing, understanding, and resolving underlying emotions and root causes of symptoms through evidence-based interventions can create a gradual diminishment of symptoms. With an in-depth collaborative discussion and analysis of unconscious thoughts and emotions from childhood until the present day, we can explore how they inform us today to help relieve symptoms and develop targeted strategies to foster change. The process relies on insights, which are self-realizations and self-knowledge of deep-rooted thoughts, emotions, memories, or reasonings of what, why, and how events happened in the past. We’ll work together to diminish your symptoms and associated distress, then deepen our work to understand and change underlying symptoms and relationship difficulties.