I provide psychiatric care for adult clients in a safe and welcoming private office or in an established video format that meets your personal needs. My work is devoted to helping people improve relationships with themselves, family, and colleagues. Most commonly, this work begins with a specific concern about a mood symptom or struggle within one or more areas of your life.
I have found that psychotherapies are the best modalities for making lasting, real change; therefore, I prioritize the majority of my professional time for individual psychotherapy cases. True change is possible through mutual understanding of your routine ways of relating and responding to stress and opportunity. Development of a therapeutic relationship is necessary for this understanding. Starting therapy should provide relief and hope within a few sessions. Lasting change is most often created through iterative improvements facilitated through regular sessions during times of high distress and relative ease.
I primarily provide psychiatric assessments and initial treatment and fundamental personal change through psychodynamic psychotherapy. I see adult clients in person or via telesessions, one to five times per week for as long as necessary and directly useful.
I limit my practice to areas of strength. I think it helpful for you to know a few common psychiatric services that I do not provide in my practice. I do not provide more problem-focused treatment (EMDR or DBT for example) or focus on specific conditions (ADHD or OCD, for example), psychiatric assessments or treatment plans while seeking mental health disability or other legal/clinical benefit determinations, nor do I provide required assessments for people seeking medical clearance (such as for bariatric surgery). I do not provide stimulant medication for patients only seen by telesessions. Please see the Additional Resources section for more information. If you are seeking services outside of the scope of my practice, I can help you establish care with a trusted expert who does this work.
Please see the Beginning Treatment section for additional overview of my approach to starting effective therapeutic work.