Everyone's story is unique and no therapy session follows a predictable path. Yet the steps below provide a general outline of how your therapy sessions with me may progress: *We identify a path that confirms your values and promotes positive change; *We discuss the problem in concrete terms; *We evaluate its negative effects on your life. *We figure out exactly how it works in your day. *We consider skills to reduce the problem Even with quite serious problems, this process generally takes a handful of months, not years, to attain lasting results.
With over twenty years of experience, I can help you with: *Relationship problems such as poor communication, persistent conflict, or cheating; *Self-defeating behaviours around sex, pornography, alcohol, drugs, and/or gambling; *Depression, anxiety, chronic anger, loss, or trauma; *Gay or lesbian concerns and relationships; *Obsessions, compulsive behaviours, and panic attacks.
Mindfulness practices have proven very useful. We can experiment with them, as we investigate the problem until we understand and reduce the ways it turns up daily-the voice, ideas, the little or big dramas. But we also clarify core values, hopes, and skills from which emerge a chosen life direction.
