Individual Counseling

I provide counseling to individuals, couples, veterans, and persons in recovery from drug and alcohol abuse using Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) as my primary therapeutic modality.

 I have learned from working with various populations that shame is a burden which persons carry with them throughout life. By engaging in double listening, the therapist collaborates with the client to find the desired outcome of a person’s life. What is discovered when finding that a person leads a multi-storied life is that they have the tools to face their problem story head on.

 In groups, I have used therapy to facilitate the group’s wisdom and local knowledge, just as I do with clients in individual therapy. For example, in veterans groups and recovery groups I have run, I have found that one client’s local wisdom can help group members relate to each other’s experience and feel less isolated and alone as a result.