Welcome and thanks for visiting my website! (Willkommen. Ich kann auch auf Deutsch arbeiten.)

Finding a match in therapy as an adult isn’t as simple as a web search; so please feel free to contact me to discuss your particular interest in counseling. We may end up scheduling an initial session, or I can offer you referrals.

I work with individual adults as well as with couples. Areas of focus include depression, anxiety, stress, life transitions, relationship issues, separation/divorce, parenting, ADHD, and cross-cultural issues.   

My counseling process is designed to help you:

• address your concerns,

• come to a deeper understanding of yourself,

• develop greater insight into your choices, and

• learn effective personal and interpersonal skills. 

Specifically, I am a Cognitive Behavioral Counselor (CBT). CBT is an approach to treatment that focuses on identifying current problems, examining the historic causes, and recognizing existing beliefs and behaviors that maintain these difficulties. Together, we can then generate alternative strategies to break unhelpful cycles.

• The “cognitive” part of CBT focuses on identifying your automatic thoughts and underlying beliefs that may be driving emotional distress and problematic behavior -- for example, the tendency to overpredict negative outcomes thus creating anxiety and avoidance. During this process, it is important to understand what you have inherited from your family and the behaviors you developed as coping mechanisms.   

• The “behavioral” part of CBT seeks to identify maladaptive behaviors such as avoidance, acting out, and controlling or self-defeating behaviors, and then develop new, more adaptive choices and skills. Techniques are also taught for you to gather evidence to challenge your beliefs and thereafter replace them with more adaptive, helpful ways of seeing yourself, others, and the world.

New behaviors are not the only goal. CBT can also create new experiences and data which can help change old beliefs and feelings.