My approach
Relational, experiential counseling with mindfulness and curiosity.
My approach to counseling springs from an appreciation that each of us has a common aspiration that is varied in its expression: aspiring for contentment, belonging, and fulfillment.
Contentment as a sense of ease and creativity
Belonging as having mutual relationships valued, appreciated, and care-full
Fulfillment as finding, enacting, and adopting a meaningful purpose in life.
In counseling, we discover together what barriers may exist to your own self-actualization of these three factors.
Mental suffering often comes when we adapt to life by developing protective and limited strategies in response to distress, thus veering from a natural and healthful trajectory. Counseling can help heal the wounds these strategies were formed to protect and open up new channels for living and self-expression.
I have a particular focus on working with men who feel they are missing deep connection with themselves, their partners, and with other men. Through either individual counseling, or the weekly men’s group I co-lead, the men I work with experience more authentic and meaningful relationships with themselves and with others.
“Lying, thinking
Last night
How to find my soul a home
Where water is not thirsty
And bread loaf is not stone
I came up with the one thing
And I don’t believe I’m wrong
That nobody,
But nobody
Can make it out here alone.”
— Maya Angelou