Now accepting new clients in West Hartford, CT — in-person & virtual.
Now accepting new clients in West Hartford, CT — in-person & virtual.
As a generalist practitioner, I am open to working with anyone about anything, as long as individual therapy is clinically appropriate for what you’re bringing.
In many ways, therapy is about moving closer to the reality of our lives and learning to come to terms with our experiences. This is not always easy. It requires some courage, some honesty, and some trust in the process to get started. But for those who stick with it over time, therapy can be a genuinely powerful mode of healing and change.
People often come to therapy wanting to get rid of something — anxiety, depression, worries, urges, or any number of uncomfortable thoughts, feelings, or behaviors. Most of us have already developed creative ways to avoid feeling or thinking, but we eventually see how avoidance simply adds to our confusion and suffering and keeps us stuck. Therapy offers a different approach. It invites you to relate to your so-called “problem areas” differently — with curiosity, friendliness, and open-mindedness — rather than trying to fix or eliminate them. As a result, clients often experience meaningful symptom relief and a greater sense of peace.
As a generalist practitioner, I am open to working with anyone about anything, as long as individual therapy is clinically appropriate for what you’re bringing. Themes that commonly emerge include difficulty coping with uncertainty, trouble being kind to oneself, repeating patterns that feel impossible to break, and getting emotionally triggered again and again. The good news is that it’s all workable. It just takes some work.
Unlike many modern approaches, I take seriously what is happening in the unconscious — dreams, fantasies, daydreams, musings, reveries. The psyche has a language of its own, and it tends to speak in images and metaphors rather than logical arguments. I’ve learned to pay attention to that language, and to help my clients do the same.
I am less interested in labeling your experiences as “good” or “bad” than I am in understanding what they are trying to tell you. Symptoms are rarely asking to be fixed. More often, they are asking us to pay attention to something deeper. Depression has a function. Anxiety is pointing somewhere. The question is: toward what?
My goal is not to make you dependent on therapy — it is to help you become your own therapist over time, to access and live your own inner wisdom. That means slowing things down, tolerating ambiguity, and learning to sit with uncertainty long enough for something genuinely useful to emerge.
People are not projects to be improved. They are mysteries to be lived.
A collaborative approach tailored to your needs and goals.
Standard therapy session duration.
Transition to biweekly or monthly as appropriate.
Flexible options to fit your schedule.
Superbills provided for possible reimbursement.
The first step is simply a conversation. A free 20- minute phone call — no pressure, no commitment. Most people find that one conversation makes the decision considerably easier.
