My role is to co-create a therapeutic container of vital interactions that supports your goals. Vitalization, “the engendering of novel experience, the ignition of an enlivening internal process that can come about through deep engagement with the other”* lies at the foundation of my work as a psychotherapist.

I’ve found Acceptance & Commitment Therapy to be an effective modality within the therapeutic journey. ACT is a, “mindfulness-based behavior therapy shown to be effective with a diverse range of clinical conditions…. the goal of ACT is to create a rich and meaningful life, while accepting the pain that inevitably goes with it…this therapy is about taking effective action guided by our deepest values and in which we are fully present and engaged.”*

How and where we place our attention is fundamental to our experience, often our therapeutic work will be to bring curiosity to these unexamined places. “From the Buddhist, or fruitional, view, our work is not primarily to improve our experience; instead, it’s to invite a shift in perspective so that we are willing and able to fully relate to any experience we might have, regardless of what it may be….Therefore, our work is to investigate this appearance, see through it, and experience the freedom that comes from having open awareness and compassion, rather than a personal self, as our basic ground.”*

Drawing on the expansive and breathtaking container of our environment can be a source of, “our personal blossoming (if we have any quiet exposure to her) through her spontaneities, through her beauty, power, and mirroring, through her dazzling variety of species and habitats, and by way of the wind, Moon, Sun, stars, and galaxies.”*