Relationships-Oriented Therapy

Our lives occur in relationships: social, romantic, sexual, business, familial, and so on.  From our earliest moments, interaction and its absence shape our inner and outer lives and influence how the world we occupy feels and seems.

My education in Marriage and Family Therapy means I think in relationships.  When we speak in therapy, I'm considering the many overlapping contexts and interactions that might matter.  I'm interested in how your concerns, difficulties, joys and successes involve other people and how you see yourself through their eyes.  We'll talk about what it's like to be close to people and what closeness means to you.  We'll talk about family, intimacy, conflict and connection.

But that doesn't mean we're always talking about other people.  In therapy, we'll also explore the relationships inside you and how you view and treat different parts of yourself.

To think in relationships also means we look at what happens in our lives and ask the (maybe) difficult question: what is my part in this?  I believe that people who are able to see their part in life's struggles have a chance at greater freedom, possibility and peace.  

I don't see any of my clients as entering the room alone.  You carry your world along with you, and we can take a good look at it together.