Often therapy is about healing, empowerment and growth. The simple fact that you are looking at this cite could be considered an example of these. Attending therapy regularly can help build on this and help you address new or long-standing issues or problems in your life. Your sexual behaviors, or those of someone close to you, can be as hurtful as they once were pleasurable. Making the choice in therapy to address the hurt that has been inflicted on you or by you can mean the difference between healthy and unhealthy future relationships. Specifically, our work generally focuses on problems of a sexual nature (sex addiction, porn addiction, sexual partner betrayal, or other problematic sexual behaviors). Therapy done by a qualified professional can help you change problematic behaviors, improve coping strategies, and identify healthy ways for you to move forward in your life, individually or in your personal and/or professional relationships.
 
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I believe I can use my many years of clinical training and experience to help my clients achieve relief from emotional pain and conflict in themselves and in their important relationships. I do this by employing proven clinical techniques, a judgement free environment, and a bit of modest humor. My goal is to help each person relax and explore the personal thoughts, thoughts, feelings and behaviors that shame and social stigma have silenced in them for so long. Often this work also includes healing the known and unknown traumas that life has visited upon them. I can't say there aren't some emotionally difficult parts of this process, there usually are. My goal is to use my extensive training and clinical skills to help the process be productive, healing and renewing. I believe relationships matter in all aspects of our lives - for good and for bad. I offer each client the opportunity to build a good working relationship with me in the services of helping them heal and grow.

 
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Humans are meant to be in relationships. Healthy relationships nourish us and help us live full, happy and healthy lives. Unhealthy relationships often drain us of energy and hope, and can harm our mental and physical health. All relationships have a beginning, a middle and an end. Often, the trick is knowing which phase you're in. The term "relationship" is often assumed to mean between two people, ie friends, family, lovers, etc. However, we can also have non-human relationships. For example, many people have relationships with an addiction (ie drugs, sex, porn, etc), a behaviour (lying, shopping, working, etc), an illness, a thought, a fear, a pet, or, even with money. Similarly, we all have other people we are in relationship with who are not (or not yet… ?) in the category of 'friend, family or lover.' For example, a teacher, a boss, your favorite clerk at the grocery store, or the barista who knows your daily coffee order the moment she sees you enter. We also can have less healthy and/or less socially acceptable relationships with other people as well. These include affair partners, prostitutes, drug dealers, the IRS auditor, or one's assigned Probation Officer (no shade to the POs out there…).

Each of these relationships matter - and some matter a lot. For "good" reason(s) and for "bad" reasons these relationships matter - both to our internal sense of self, and to our external perception of those around us. Why, how much, and for how long they matter is often unique to each person. As is the impact each persons' relationships can have on their life and the lives of those around them. In relational therapy, we explore these relationships, without shame or judgment, and we try to find the best path forward for each person, individually.

 
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