Therapeutic Approaches - Overview

The human psyche with its multitude of layers, twists, turns and apparent contradiction may appear daunting and mysterious. It is my sincere hope that your counseling experience not reflect this often intimidating view of our internal workings. While counseling is often hard work it should, hopefully, prove clarifying and liberating, abolishing ambiguities and ambivalence and leaving comfortably mysterious that which needs to be.

That being said, I believe that it is best to give you some background on the way that I have been taught and chosen to implement that teaching in conjunction with my own personal style and values. What I would like to think this makes me, in the end, is someone you can talk to who has the training and disposition to be sensitive and empathetic who can also organize what I'm presented with by my clients against a background of sensitivity and empirically tested and personally effective set of strategies, techniques and attitudes. While this might begin to sound overly dry and clinical, I want to emphasize the importance of creativity in our counseling endeavors; the cliched "stepping outside the box" when it's called for.

Just a few of the many modalities of treatment

This is a small sample of treatment modalities that we can tap into. Feel free to contact me for an expanded explanations of the types of treatment that you might encounter addressing mental health or addictions issues.