The most important thing I do is listen to you--what is your story, what brings you to therapy? I try to bring humility and compassion to my work with all my patients. I am here to help when--or if--you want to change something. I hope to help you bring mindfulness to what your situation is and how it is affecting you. I do not have a rigid way of working with people--I am here to support you in the way that you find helpful.

Mindfulness--compassionate mindfulness--can help us all focus on what is going on in the current moment, take a step back from thoughts, emotions and become aware of what is going on in the body and the environment around us. Mindfulness helps one develop the capacity to intentionally direct one's attention to whatever is most useful/helpful in the moment.

Most of my training has been in mindfulness (MBCT and MBSR) and various cognitive behavioral treatment (CBT, DBT) modalities which all have research supporting their effectiveness. CBT has many useful concepts, but can seem a little "intelectual." My experience is that the Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy helps patients feel/experience CBT concepts and make them more useful/accessible in people's every day lives.

But the most useful training I have had is in Motivational Interviewing (MI), because the research behind MI found that the technique a therapist uses is not as important as the relationship the patient has with the therapist--I found that to be so true in my years of work with people!