How Therapy Works
How we work together
I am currently working via phone and Zoom, and in-person in Mill Valley and San Francisco.
We begin with your story and your issues: How would you like to grow?
Sessions are generally 50 minutes in length. Couples or family sessions may last 90 minutes.
We usually meet at least once per week.
Therapy works by cultivating and developing a sense of aliveness within.
In a climate that fosters emotional safety, trust, openness, and support, I’ve found that people naturally move toward their true nature as loving, curious, and alive beings.
Therapy starts with the question: “What brings me here?”
Whether it is a question, a specific problem, or a recurring dream you have, it is useful to have a starting point at the beginning of therapy.
Therapy best ends with a review of what has happened over the course of your treatment.
Has your problem fallen away or lessened? What remains to be attended to in the future?
Therapy is confidential.
With a few specific exceptions that are explained in the first session, everything that you say in therapy is confidential between you and your therapist.
Therapy is a container for your experience.
The emphasis is on your setting your own pace in therapy. You get to talk about what is most important to you. It is important that you feel deeply heard and understood.
In this way, a deep trust in yourself develops. When you trust yourself to recognize what is true, that trust promotes and develops growth, confidence, and wise action in your life.
We know that life is not easy at every turn - It can be quite challenging and difficult at times.
When you restore your own well-being, you are able to negotiate challenges for yourself and with others with emotional balance and calm.
My work has been informed by a wide variety of approaches to clinical practice:
Jungian Depth Psychology
Psychoanalysis and Object Relations
Family and Couples Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Transpersonal Therapy