I am committed to an approach to psychotherapy that challenges and enlivens each of the individuals involved. My experiences in both “chairs” have taught me that therapeutic work is most effective when client and therapist contribute equally to the unique field generated by their meeting. No two such combinations—or sessions, for that matter—are necessarily even remotely alike. Accordingly, my approach is based on the notion that the present moment is always new, bringing with it unforeseen experiences, insights, capacities and occasions for choice, change, integration and responsibility. In my interactions with clients, my goal is to facilitate and support this context for continuous novelty and growth which, for a variety of reasons, we may temporarily have lost touch with. I regard therapy as both a serious and—whenever possible—a joyful endeavor. 

With respect to “method,” I believe each person is so unique that regardless of one’s theoretical orientation, ultimately the method becomes the therapist rather than the other way around. In the language of the Gestalt modality in which I was trained, this conception of method is sometimes described as the therapist’s “use of self.” The implication is that most progress in therapy arises not from the practice of any particular technique but from the quality of the relationship that we co-create in our work together.