Services

I offer empirically supported, individual psychotherapy to adults, integrating cognitive behavioral therapy and narrative therapy approaches to address depression, anxiety, and other common psychological concerns, and to support clients navigating significant life, career, and health transitions. My goals in therapy are to establish a strong therapeutic relationship as clients develop insight into their problems, and to help clients deepen their personal relationships, adopt healthier ways of thinking, and lead more productive and rewarding lives. The concerns I provide treatment for include depression and other mood disorders, generalized anxiety, panic disorder, social anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, trauma, grief and bereavement, insomnia, problems in adjustment, and difficulties with life transitions resulting from changes in health, career, or relationship status. I provide services by meeting with clients through Telehealth online video-conference calls.

Duration of treatment. Most of my clients begin with weekly, one hour psychotherapy, but treatment typically tapers off to every-other-week and then to monthly sessions as things improve. Although I sometimes am able to meet clients’ needs after just a few sessions, depending on the nature of the concerns addressed and response to treatment psychotherapy typically ranges from ten to twenty sessions. Once things are better, some clients will continue to meet with me on an occasional, “as needed” basis to support and maintain gains they have achieved in treatment. A few clients with longstanding and entrenched concerns will continue in weekly treatment for extended periods of time.

Services beyond the scope of my practice. I don’t offer treatment for children or adolescent minors, and I don’t offer couples or marital counseling. I don’t have the expertise to treat full-fledged eating disorders, or active alcohol or other drug dependence. Since I am an independent, solo practitioner with a virtual, online practice, I am not well positioned to offer urgent care or crisis management, or to treat people who are acutely suicidal, or at risk for violence, or actively struggling with mania or psychosis, or whose mental health concerns are incapacitating.