My Approach

As a relational psychotherapist, I believe that empowerment and growth through interpersonal connection are both the process and the goal.

I aim to:

• Help you understand your patterns of thoughts and feelings about yourself, and the power of significant relationships, past and present, that shape your experience.
• Help strengthen and transform your sense of self, which in turn enhances your confidence and well-being in the world.

Relational psychotherapy is based on the following principles:

• Emotional well-being depends on having satisfying relationships with others.
• Emotional distress is often rooted in patterns of how we relate with others, past and present, which have the power to demean and deaden the self.
• As a relational therapist I try to understand your unique experience in its social/relational context and to respond with empathy and genuine presence.
• Together, we create a new in-depth relationship which is supportive, strengthening, and enlivening for you.

​Within our therapeutic relationship, you can safely re-experience, and then find freedom from, the powerful effects of destructive relationships, past and present.

"Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion." - bell hooks