Questions About Therapy:

 
1. How many therapy sessions will I need?

The duration of your therapy is up to each individual client. Some individuals are seeking brief, short term therapy to work through a specific issue or problem. Other individuals appreciate the benefits of longer term therapy and the opportunity to work through interpersonal issues and heal on a deeper level.

2. What can I expect in a therapy session?

 Therapy sessions are an opportunity to bring up life issues and concerns that are important to you. I see my role as a therapist as navigating those issues with you, helping you to discern and work through concerns, develop skills to make life changes you are seeking. Each session, clients are invited to speak to what’s important at that time, which changes from session to session. Sessions can be very emotional as well as light, funny, and playful.

3. What are the benefits of therapy?

 My hope for all clients is that they will not only experience the alleviation of pain or symptoms but that they will experience personal growth and greater self awareness. At the foundation of my therapeutic approach is the development of unconditional friendliness towards oneself and the ability to like oneself in all realms of feeling and being. Many individuals are raised with the notion of original sin, or basic badness and the sense that they are never enough as they are. Therapy can help undo this false belief system, replacing it with the knowing that we are inherently intelligent, whole, and full of potential.

4. Is therapy confidential?

Therapy is always confidential unless the client gives me permission to release information to a particular third party. The three exceptions to confidentiality are:

a. If a client reports that they have intentions to harm or kill themselves.

b. If a client reports that they have intentions to harm or kill someone else.

c. If a client reports the abuse of an individual under the age of 18.

Under these circumstances, all therapist are mandated by law to make a report to Social Services.