SERVICES

One goal of my work is to help individuals  and couples to develop a better relationships, develop more appropriate expression of their emotions, thoughts and actions. Clients will develop more awareness and learn to deal and cope with the challenges that they face even after they leave therapy. The experience is a collaboration with the therapis who is both objective and empathic.

How therapy works:

There are aspects of the process that make it more effective:

• Meeting weekly for 45 to 50 creates a trusting /safe environment where you can explore what is and what isn't working for you. Most of us tend to avoid. The structure of therapy helps us to avoid avoidance. The duration of the therapeutic process is not limited.
• Using sessions to experience a full range of thoughts and feelings without critical judgment, in order to become more authentic.
• Becoming aware of old, reactive and over-protective ways of living that developed into habits, and eventually became unconscious.
• Learning to live in the present rather than the past.
• Recognizing how we relate to others, how we use avoidance, how we think and feel, using the therapeutic session as an extension of life.
• Developing new and more flexible ways of relating to people and the world.
• Developing a greater capacity to relate to feelings without being overwhelmed by them.
• Developing an attitude toward life that helps make meaning out of the difficulties we encounter.

Couples therapy can help transform a relationship from one that is painfully difficult to maintain, into one of mutual support and affection. While the process is somewhat different for each couple what follows are some objectives you can expect from psychotherapy.

• Improve communication skills through role play.
• Uncover how your past may bring into play expectations, good and bad, that are brought into your relationship.
• Identify the destructive patterns from both partners, patterns which were learned in childhood from each one's nuclear family.
• Observe and separate  destructive patterns and unrealistic expectations in the present, using the time in the therapeutic session.