My approach is interpersonal, supportive and direct. I focus on helping my clients obtain relief from emotional distress and develop strength and awareness to deal successfully with events that confront them day to day. I assist them in discovering how their negative and dysfunctional perceptions of themselves and others distort their experience and contribute to depression, isolation, marital discord, and failure.

In my work with clients, I help them to come to a greater awareness and understanding of their feelings and thoughts. As they gain insight into how they conduct their lives, possibilities for change emerge. Developing more positive thoughts and actions can lead to greater connectedness with others, fewer feelings of alienation, increased capacities for joy, and less judgmental or derogatory attitudes toward themselves and others.  Their relationships with their spouses, friends, family members and co-workers improve as they work on the issues that brought them into therapy.