Mental health and the healing process are interconnected, with healing involving a multi-stage journey of acknowledging struggles, gaining understanding, taking action, rebuilding, and maintaining well-being. Key components of this process include accepting the need for change, seeking and engaging with support systems, managing emotions, and developing strategies for long-term resilience.

Our initial visit will be between 45-60 minutes, whereby we will discuss your present symptoms and history in order to develop a diagnosis (or diagnoses), and then we will develop a treatment plan together that works best for you. Follow-up visits will be approximately 30 minutes and can be scheduled as frequently as necessary according to your needs. My primary goal is for you to leave our sessions feeling confident that we are moving in the right direction towards feeling your best.

My primary therapeutic modality is brief supportive therapy (BST), which can be applied to any patient population and to a variety of individual patient needs. BST helps to build and bolster a patient's self-esteem, enhance ego functions (i.e., via the reinforcement of strengths and defenses), and promote adaptive coping skills (i.e., via encouragement and reassurance, psychoeducation, and anticipatory guidance). The goal is to build a strong therapeutic alliance via empathy, collaboration, and active listening.