"The most powerful agent of change in therapy is the relationship between the therapist and client."
- Carl Rogers
Individual therapy
Our in person therapy sessions will take place in my Dupont Circle, DC office. My primary goals are that you feel safe and comfortable in our therapeutic relationship, and that you learn to build a life that feels great to you. Therapy can be a transformative. It goes beyond symptom relief and cultivates personal growth, resilience, and a deeper sense of purpose and vitality.
Our therapy relationship also serves as a learning ground for understanding how you relate to others outside of therapy. This awareness leads to positive changes in your other significant relationships.
Some of the “survival tendencies” we developed in childhood can impede the lives we want to build for ourselves as adults. In therapy, we explore theses tendencies that no longer serve us, and develop new, adaptive ways of coping with life’s challenges.
Group therapy
I co-lead long-term interpersonal process group for adults of various identities and backgrounds presenting with a range of issues.
Some of the most meaningful change happens not just by talking about relationships but by experiencing them.
Interpersonal process group therapy offers a unique opportunity to better understand yourself through your relationships with others. As patterns emerge in real time, group becomes a place to receive honest feedback, experiment with new ways of relating, and discover how you impact and are impacted by other people.
For many people, group therapy complements individual therapy by creating opportunities for insight and change that are difficult to access through individual therapy alone.
Couples therapy
Couples therapy can help partners better understand one another and restore hope, trust and connection to the relationship. Couples work involves each partner recognizing how their own behavior maintains unwanted patterns in the relationship. Through the process, each partner learns how to disengage from those patterns and attune to the other person.
I typically see couples with a co-therapist, a model where we work together to observe interactions, provide feedback, and offer interventions. My co-therapist will work with one member of the couple individually, and I will work with the other. This model allows us to address breakdowns in communication and intimacy, in tandem with each individual exploring their role in the disharmony in the relationship.
Typical issues include communication, life transitions, parenting, financial conflict, grief and loss or infidelity.