What to expect
After an initial free 15-minute consultation call, the first session or two typically involves a mix of going over your personal history and what you’d like to get out of therapy, a deeper introduction to how I work, and the start of collaborative work to get us aligned on your goals for the process.
Once we have that in place, regular sessions will proceed where we’ll explore progress on and barriers to goals, work on specific mental health-related skills if needed, and continue to steer the process if goals change or problems start to look different as you peel back layers. Eventually, we’ll hope to arrive at a closure to your therapy where you’ve met your goals and you can move forward feeling like a stronger and healthier version of yourself.
My main approach is person-centered or “Rogerian” therapy, where I treat you as the expert, expand on your interpretations of your life and your problems, provide my own reflections, and work together to build a realistic plan to take you where you want to go.
We can also optionally tailor this approach to be more or less structured, goal directed and challenging than how it was originally intended, based on recent research on how to make therapy work better.
I also sometimes lean on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) when present struggles involve persistent worry or anxiety, and prolonged exposure (PE) for trauma.
All of these approaches are evidence-based, having been confirmed to work in multiple studies. I particularly favor them because they work well while also being about as simple as they can possibly be. All of them focus on core factors and processes known to influence how well therapy works and what kind of gains you can expect to maintain from it long-term. All of them can adapt to your feedback (read more on feedback-informed-treatment).
We can talk about this more in a free 15-minute consultation or in your first session.
How to get started
Book a call online or reach out to me with more questions. You can also see more commonly asked questions and answers in the FAQ page.