I have over 25 years of experience as a psychologist, working in various settings. What I hear most often from clients is that they appreciate that I take an active approach in therapy, rather than relying too much on offering support through quiet listening. I work with adults, 18 years of age or older, needing help with the various challenges that may be impairing your ability to function or live a full, enriching life. I take a multi-theoretical approach, tailoring my work to the needs of my clients. Perhaps most often, I take a somewhat poetic cognitive approach, helping clients pay attention to how their thinking tendencies inform their perspective, their emotions, and their relationships. I also help clients explore how prior life experiences inform how they experience life now, offering more awareness of what they wish to change or simply be more aware of, as they face the issues that bring them to therapy. This involves incorporating how personal and social identities inform our life experiences. Finally, my expertise blends my formal clinical training with my passion for music, film, and literature, as well as the ways that one's spirituality informs their life experience. This is all part of how I hold up that mirror, and my experience is that, from our work together, you'll have a clearer and more confident sense of how to navigate the challenges facing you.