Therapeutic Techniques
My approach is eclectic, drawing from several different schools of therapy. I will tailor the work depending on the individual, couple, or family trying to meet their unique needs, life experience, and situation.

In order to determine if the therapy is working, I ask clients to set concrete goals so that we may use those as a benchmark for whether or not the therapy is progressing. I will also use an indicator to measure whether or not the client feels my services are right for them. If we find that I am not the “right fit”, then I will do my best to help the client find the appropriate therapist for their needs.

Therapeutic schools and techniques that I use include:

• Systems approach: Considering family and relationship dynamics, family history, and other systems or communities involved in clients’ lives
• Adlerian: An educational approach that says people are doing the best they can with the information and experience they already have. This approach adds “techniques to your bag of tricks” for improving the dilemmas of freedom and authority, discipline, and improving relationships. An important school for improving parenting techniques and parent-child relationships
• Cognitive behavioral: Understanding and retraining our “thinking brain” to positively effect emotions, feelings, and behaviors
• Jungian: Examining the unconscious relationships or drives behind what we do. Also using dream work, sand tray, art or play, to find answers in our own unconscious. Finding our connection to the universe and mankind as a whole
• Narrative therapies: Telling our stories and learning to re-work these for positive outcomes
• Gestalt: using what is happening in the moment to deepen experience

 I am a proponent of self help (bibliotherapy) and other methods of self care and can refer clients to some other avenues. My goal for clients is that they will learn about the healing qualities within themselves so that they may find joy and contribute love and positive energy to the people in their lives. I want them to feel more capable and successful and to move forward. As a counselor, it is with gravity and privilege that I witness my clients’ life journeys.