Individual Therapy
Psychotherapy can be a transformative experience of self-investment, giving you the space to identify and reflect on your needs, motivations, and feelings. Individual therapy can be a powerful means to understand the roots of your concerns, to deepen self-acceptance, to reduce anxiety and distress, and to increase personal growth.
By gaining self-understanding, you can bring more clarity and compassion to life, helping improve decision making, communication, relationships, motivation, and well-being.
Some examples of goals that bring my clients to counseling include:
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Coping with difficult emotions
Managing feelings of depression, anxiety, anger, low self-esteem and gaining access to greater contentment and happiness.
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Processing difficult experiences as well as life transitions
Navigating the emotions and uncertainty inherent in loss as well as in change (such as changes in job/career, changes in role such as getting married or becoming a parent, or changes in identity such as graduating college).
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Getting unstuck
Identifying counterproductive patterns and changing them by tapping into sources of meaning and fulfillment and discovering one's own direction.
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Creating meaningful relationships
Developing more rewarding relationships and addressing unrewarding ones.
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Strengthening one's voice
Feeling grounded in one's own value and perspective and being able to express that perspective.
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Increasing self-confidence
Expanding the belief in one's ability to handle the twists and turns of life.
I specialize in the following areas:
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Depression, anxiety, stress
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Sexual orientation & gender identity, sexuality and racial/ethnic minority status
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Trauma
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Grief & mourning
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Identity
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Relationships
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A lack of meaning or purposefulness in life and overall dissatisfaction with life
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Life transitions
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Perfectionism and self-criticism
Ready to Take the Next Step?
As a good therapeutic fit is very important, I offer a complimentary, brief phone consultation to give you a sense of my style and see if you would be interested in setting up an appointment.
I offer daytime, evening and weekend appointments and am located right by the Dupont Metro, at 1350 Connecticut Ave, NW.