Areas of Expertise
Psychotherapy
Sometimes it can be beneficial to seek out help from a skilled third party to explore what isn’t working in your life. Therapy starts in a quiet, airy room for an uninterrupted hour with an attentive listener experienced in detecting patterns, offering feedback, encouragement, and suggesting alternative choices.
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Currently, my hourly fee for individuals is $160.00
Couples
I offer couples a supportive, structured space in which to unpack volatile issues productively. I can offer guidelines to help both parties move forward productively and find renewed joy in partnership. My inspirations and trainers in this work are Terrence Real and Esther Perel.
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Currently, my hourly fee for couples is $220.00
Artists
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“Great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.” — Anais Nin
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As a published novelist, editor and writing coach, I am interested in searching out what motivates us, how we map our ways around obstacles, draft and define new versions of ourselves. A writer listens, observes, and takes notes. A therapist does this too, but for different ends. What matters is hugely subjective, both in writing and in therapy.
My Approach
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How do you know you need therapy?
• Have you observed that the particular difficulty you’re having isn’t going away on its own and is having a persistent, negative impact on your personal life, your relationships, your work?
• Have other people suggested you seek a therapist?
• Do you find your negative thoughts or feelings have a cyclic, chronically recurring quality such that you wonder whether they’re ever going to change or resolve?
• Do you feel vaguely flat, ill-at-ease, no longer as engaged by your life as you wish to be?
• Are you hit by spikes of sadness, anger, or other emotions which seem out of scale to their cause?
• Have you hit a creative impasse?
These are some of the reasons people come in for therapy.
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Among my strengths as a therapist are my 27+ years of professional experience and range of training, my humour and empathy, my ability to quickly intuit the underlying issues and emotions that may be contributing to your difficulty. I am direct but never a basher. I am creative and non-judging. I maintain strict confidentiality.
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