Treatment Philosophy
It is not easy to change oneself or one's life. You need the help of a specialist, who will be supportive at times, and challenging at other times. Therapy is a long-term process; there are no "quick fixes." I can work with you to get you through a crisis, out of a temporary depression, or through a life transition. But in order to really affect a fundamental change in your life, intensive psychotherapy is necessary. The problems that lead you to consider visiting a therapist have a long history; their roots come from your childhood and your relations to your parents and siblings. Psychotherapy cannot undo the past, but it will change the way you think and feel about your life, and it will therefore change the way in which your past affects you today. It will certainly increase your ability to solve your problems in the present.
Therapy is a "talking cure." Medication can temporarily help you and relieve symptoms, and it can alter your feelings and thoughts, but it cannot change how you think about yourself. In the process of therapy, you are invited to say what is truly on your mind, and together we will explore your feelings, your relationship to others, and the relationship that emerges between us.
I have experienced how people's lives have changed through this process, and therefore I know that this is a method that works. These changes can be incredibly powerful, because the process of psychotherapy will help you to grow and to face your problems. It will lead you to experience a freedom that you didn't have before, in which you will become the architect of your own life.
