My orientation is a supportive, solution oriented one. The approach taken varies depending on your needs. My training is in traditional psychotherapy. I use a combination of mindfulness based cognitive-behavioral therapy, positive psychology, and psychodynamic understanding. The focus is mostly on the here and now -we explore your history so that we can better understand your current situation.
I find that a mind/body/spirit approach is helpful with those inclined toward this perspective. And positive psychology is always incorporated in the work to encourage happiness and resiliency skills.
Positive Psychology is built on research about what behaviors, attitudes, and thinking habits help enhance quality of life. This body of research includes tools and exercises that can help you increase your happiness, improve health, relationships, and even longevity.
Mindfulness Cognitive-behavioral therapy incorporates building awareness of how your thoughts effect your feelings, behaviors, and life in general. The focus is awareness and acceptance of your thoughts and feelings without judgement while developing a realistic perspective that will improve your experience and depression, anxiety, and stress. Increasing self-awareness and resiliency skills can also improve your relationships, productivity, and overall well-being.
Personality Assessment and feedback is useful for increasing self-awarenss and understanding. It also helps me get to know you alot faster making our time together much more efficient. In marital counseling, personality testing helps take issues out of right and wrong and into a deeper level of mutual understanding that can help you bring out the best in each other.
Interpersonal Therapy is focused on the here and now (while taking your past into account to facilitate our work in the present - but not dwelling on the past). This approach is an eclectic one which involves the therapist and client working together as a team. This is a practical, problem solving therapy that incorporates cognitive-behavioral therapy, insight work, positive psychology (building on your personal strengths for increased resiliency and happiness).