Professional counseling is part science and part skill. I use knowledge and knack to understand the exact pattern of your symptoms which leads to an exact diagnosis. Once an exact diagnosis is established, then I introduce you to evidenced based interventions which are accepted as the current professional standard of care for the diagnosis. Interventions are tailored to your strengths for the purpose of reducing the intensity, duration and frequency of your unwanted symptoms. From here we work together to address the presenting problems stemming from previously unmanaged symptoms.
Because personality is formed within the context of relationships, it is the quality of the therapeutic professional relationship we develop together which will determine the timing of specific evidenced based interventions introduced. Once you enact and incorporate these interventions, you will establish new patterns of wellness which carry over into your being.
Mis-diagnoses and/ or untreated symptoms emerging from circumstantial or etiological sources may become wrongly integrated in one’s personhood. Such integration results in loss of the authentic self within, leading to unhelpful perceptions. One may begin to know themselves and others from the viewpoint of impairment, rather than from the view point of wellness.
Sessions with me are collaborative and dynamic. I offer treatment from multiple paradigms within the clinical scope. I use a reflective, direct and inquisitive approach, working always in your best interest based on my understanding of science, theory, evidenced based treatment and ethics towards the goals you desire.
My goal is to assist you in identification and reduction of your symptoms in order that you may uncover your authenticity and wellness. My hope is that you begin to live life in response to peace, rather than in reaction to problems. I believe that wellness is an Art which we all have the capacity to create.
