What to expect:

1. Initial Contact

When you call my office for a phone consultation, I will ask you to give me a brief description of what your current difficulties are. I will talk with you and tell you how I plan to work with you. Our conversation will allow you to understand more fully how I believe I can best help you to overcome your difficulties as quickly as possible. As a result of this conversation, you should get a clearer sense of whether and how I can be of value to you.

If we decide it would be beneficial to work together, we will schedule an appointment to meet for an initial psychotherapy session.

2. First Session:

We will schedule a 2-3 hour initial session. We will carefully and thoroughly examine the difficulties you have that are causing you concern and specifically identify what you would like to accomplish. You will get a clear sense of how we can work together in the most efficient and successful way.

During this first session, people usually experience relief and develop important insights about the causes of their symptoms and their habitual and self-defeating patterns.  Many patients immediately experience a reduction in their disabiling symptoms or changes in their behavior towards themselves and others.  The steps necessary for continued success become clear.

Together we will decide on a course of action to take in future sessions and we’ll schedule additional appointments at that time if we decide it would be useful to do so.  I will also provide you with referrals or resources that may assist you further in achieving the results you want between our appointments.

3. Subsequent Sessions:

Subsequent sessions may vary from 60 minutes to 2+ hours depending upon what we decide would best fit your unique needs and goals, your budget, and your schedule. 

I will work actively with you to help you to reach your goals in a healthy and productive way, and to help you to become more capable of creating healthy ways of treating yourself and developing closeness in the relationships you'd like to deepen. Most importantly, my aim in therapy is to help you to develop the insight and the skills to create the life that you are seeking for yourself and the one that you really deserve. Our work together should enhance your ability to meet and then exceed your goals.                      

The content on this site does not constitute medical advice, medical treatment or a patient-doctor (fiduciary) relationship.