Therapy and Counseling in Salt Lake City, Utah
I specialize in working with individuals who are struggling with trauma, anxiety, or relationship issues, who are in their mid 20’s through their late 50’s.
80 minute sessions for Effective Empowerment
I use 80 minute sessions with all of my clients because research and my clinical experience have shown that 80 minute sessions are “the gold standard” for therapy. For several years now, I’ve been meeting exclusively for 80 minute sessions with all of my clients, and have found that these 80 minute sessions enable me and my clients to create SO much more change and progress in their lives and relationships than what was possible with shorter therapy sessions. I ask that people who want to work with me commit to meeting a minimum of once every two weeks because that’s what I’ve found is needed in order to create the momentum and progress needed for my clients to achieve and maintain the changes they want.
Using the Iceberg Model for Long-Term Healing
I describe each individual’s issues as being like an iceberg. We each have the external, more visible, superficial things that are like the tip of the iceberg peaking out above the surface of the water such as our behaviors, less difficult emotions, and things we feel comfortable sharing with people we don’t know very well. Under the surface of the water, however, is the much bigger part of the iceberg. That is where our more vulnerable and distressing emotions reside, the triggers that drive our patterns of behavior, patterns in the families we grew up in, traumatic things that have happened to us, and things we don’t share with others.
It’s what is under the surface of the water that is usually driving or causing the things above the surface of the water that we want to change. As a therapist, my desire and commitment is to assist you in creating significant and lasting change rather than just putting a bandaid on things. I want to assist you in identifying and working through what is driving you reacting in ways you don’t like in your life so you don’t have to go through the remaining several decades of your life continuing to have those buttons pushed. This is why I use 90 minute sessions, rather than bare minimum, shorter sessions.
Experience Support, Understanding, Connection, and Feeling Emotionally Safe
I will:
provide a safe, non-judgmental relationship & process for you to work through things
share my perspective and expertise
help you begin to understand the science of how your brain impacts your body
teach you tools and skills for coping and managing difficult symptoms and struggles
I don’t want to stop at providing you with support, deeper understanding, and some tools and shorter-term solutions though. I want to help you to create significant, lasting change.
So, I also want to help you to:
shift the dynamics in your relationships & replace unhealthy behaviors with ones shown by decades of research and clinical experience to support happy, long-term, connected, meaningful & fulfilling relationships
experience being truly seen, understood and supported
explore, identify and address the causes of your struggles
thrive not just survive
