Mon through Thu, mornings and afternoons.
$160 per session. Sliding scale available.
What's in my garden this year
Trilliums, irises, lovage, marionberries, broccoli, beets, rhubarb, kale, sweet peppers, hot peppers, one million tomatoes.
Eleanor Rigby
My approach
I work with people who are tired of their own patterns: the drinking that started as stress relief, the anxiety that has become background noise, the relationship dynamics that keep repeating. I use DBT because it works: it gives people concrete tools for tolerating distress, regulating emotion, and changing behavior without requiring them to overhaul their entire personality first. I am direct in sessions. I will tell you what I notice. I am not interested in circling the same material indefinitely, and most of my clients aren't either.
What to expect
Sessions are 50 minutes and move quickly. I tend to work in a skills-forward way early on, building a toolkit before we go deep, and then we shift into understanding the underlying stuff once you have more ground under your feet. I see addiction as a symptom, not a character flaw, and I don't use shame as a motivator. I offer a free 15-minute call before we start.