My Approach

Ht is my belief that therapy is a deeply individual venture, with a relationship that forms between you and I. Carl Jung (psychoanalyst) reported that therapists should develop a new therapy language for each client; whereas Irvin Yalom suggests that therapists should go one step further and develop a new therapy for each client. I follow the ideas of Yalom; striving to develop a therapy approach that meets your individual needs based on the information and problems you bring into therapy. I practice from a humanistic perspective, allowing me to consider you first as a person with unique life circumstances that has helped shape you to who you are today. I focus on addressing you as a whole person, taking into account all aspects of you and develop interventions that are practical to the problems you present with.

My focus is on your motivation in life, what are your hopes and dreams, the current problems that are preventing you from reaching these dreams, and any issues from your past that are contributing to your current problems. I believe that as humans we are constantly trying to live a fully actualized life, in which ever way we define a fully satisfied life. My aim for treatment is to help you understand what being self-actualized is for you, and how to help you move towards becoming the person you want to be. In doing so I work by understanding you as an individual, your cultural and personal backgrounds, and your motivation in life to help you become whom you want to be. In short, my expectations for treatment are that you grow and change as a person whom you currently are dissatisfied as to become the person you want to be.

It is my view that change occurs when we step out of our comfort zone and try something new. I believe Alfred Einstein was on track when he defined insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results.” It is this lack of stepping out of our comfort zone and trying something different that will move us forward into become the person we see ourselves to be.