ABOUT ME

I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT) with experience providing a wide range of treatments and have worked with children, adolescents, and adults in multiple clinical settings.  I work primarily with individuals and families.  I specialize in treating pre-teens/tweens, adolescents/teenagers, transition-age young adults (ages 18 – late 20s), athletes, young men, and new fathers.

I have considerable experience working with Children, Adolescents, and their families from various cultural and socio-economic backgrounds in an outpatient setting as well as various acute/intensive settings (i.e.: residential group home, hospital diversion, partial hospitalization, crisis unit, non-public schools).  I’ve also provided psychotherapy and clinical assessment services to adults in the outpatient and community mental health settings.

My approach with each individual or family is exploratory initially, as I like to get a comprehensive view of your life and the root causes of your personal difficulties.  In time, we will work collaboratively and practically – to best identify and maintain healthier, more adaptive patterns of living and ways of relating with others – all within the context of our unique relationship.  Coordinating care with additional supports (psychiatrists, school teachers/counselors, healthcare providers, and other mutually-identified people) is a priority for me and can be essential to lasting change.  When working with minors I like to have weekly individual meetings coupled with periodic additional parent/family meetings.  

My background and training is influenced in large part by the principles of Psychodynamic psychotherapy and Object Relations theory.  In practice, I also draw heavily from Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Family Systems, Control-Mastery theory, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Dialectical-Behavioral Therapy (DBT).