Individual Psychotherapy

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These are the issues I've had most experience and success working with.

People who work with me describe me as a warm and connected therapist.

I assume you can take responsibility for your thoughts and actions, and so I won't be directing you. What I will do is actively help you to stop seeing yourself in black-and-white terms and guide you to be open to all possibilities in your relationships and your career.

I'll help you question and understand the negative thoughts and feelings that stop you from growing, from knowing what you want, and from making decisions. In short, I'll help you get to know and appreciate yourself.

I have a clear method of working, one which is applied differently with different kinds of clients. Our experiences with the important figures in our development leave us feeling more comfortable and open to some ways of being approached, and less open to others. I approach each client by using the language and the world view through which they view themselves. This is a skill I've acquired through experience and training, and is a requirement for doing effective psychotherapy.

My work is based on the Masterson approach, a form of psychodynamic psychotherapy, which combines current knowledge of human development, attachment, brain research, and object relations theory.  It yields a detailed understanding of different character structures, and of the most appropriate ways of treating them.

To find out more about the Masterson approach, you can consult the many books of James Masterson, M.D. The clearest and least technical one is "The Search for the Real Self" (1988, The Free Press).