Beginning effective treatment
I begin care with a complementary exploratory phone call to see if and how I can be of support. We then meet in-person or via telesession for an effective consultation, typically 3 sessions. A consultation should include measurement based assessments and provide you a feel for what intensive therapy is like with me. At the conclusion, I will offer recommendations for treatment to clarify and improve core psychological symptoms, resolve physical health contributors, and identify personal strengths to rely and build upon during effective care.
Please see an overview of psychotherapy to consider the foundation of my practice.
Beginning Treatment Packet
Psychiatry
Effectual psychiatry is a collaboration. I strive to deeply listen to your strengths and areas of suffering. I employ a symptom and time limited use of medication and nutraceuticals; and I aim to clearly explain and deepen your understanding of the power and limitations of psychopharmocology. My work integrates evidence-based psychotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapies (especially for the behavior of sleep), and substance use recovery as useful. Our work will explore if and how health behaviors may support psychotherapy effectiveness and what are your core strengths and supports after medication is concluded.
PSYCHOANALYSIS
The majority of my practice is devoted to psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic therapies are evidence-supported with profound capacities to develop deep and lasting personal satisfaction. Creating and use of an analytic relationship facilitates awareness of essential explicit and implicit ways you feel, think, and relate. Our work supports tolerating and more fully accepting your own narratives and how you relate during times of ease and distress. The later stages of psychoanalytic treatment facilitate proactive advances in relating, meaning making, and fulfilling purpose in your life on your own terms.
If you prefer or cannot bill insurance for our work, please consider the following:
I am an in-network physician with some policies for the following insurers:
MODA (formerly ODS)
Clinical References
WHEN I refer
Valuing your time, it can be useful to know services that are not a part of my work. In my practice, I do not provide the following:
treatment limited to specific conditions (ADHD or OCD, for example);
problem-focused treatment (such as internal family system (IFS), TF=CBT, EMDR, or DBT);
psychiatric assessments or treatment plans supporting medical procedures (bariatric or other mental health clearances);
mental health disability, child or personal court assessments, work accommodations, or additional legal determinations; or
stimulant or other psychiatric medication prescriptions outside of established weekly psychotherapy treatment.
During our work, your treatment will be more effective by integrating trusted primary care and additional support. I will help you establish essential clinical relationships. I am experienced in integrating substance use recovery supports (AA, sober coaching, and/or medication assisted treatment) into psychotherapy. I readily support patients in emerging or well established partnerships begin with Gottman method or EFT (emotion focused therapy) trained couple’s therapists, the two treatment approaches with the best evidence for improvements in committed relationships. If you are using AI for health coaching or therapy, we will create together an integrated or transition plan based on your preferences. Especially when discontinuing medicine, I support patients developing mindfulness, health behavior, and social prescribing practices.
If you seek services outside my focus, either prior to or during treatment together, I support you finding a trusted expert whose work fits your needs. If you are ready to explore our work together, please be in touch.