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.
"Nothing ever exists entirely alone. Everything is in relation to everything else." - Buddha