Therapy services
Individual, couples, family, and extended-session psychotherapy for adolescents and adults.
Individual therapy
Many clients arrive with considerable insight. They can describe the pattern, trace its history, and explain why it is unhelpful. Yet the pattern remains.
Therapy begins by determining what keeps it in place. Sometimes the central problem is a belief that has never been adequately examined. Sometimes it is an emotion that cannot yet be tolerated without avoidance or control. Sometimes the response has become physiological and occurs before conscious thought has much influence. Treatment follows from that distinction.
Individual sessions may be structured and practical, exploratory and relational, or attentive to physical experience. The balance changes as the work develops.
Couples therapy
Couples often seek therapy after a disagreement has become a system: one person presses, the other withdraws; one explains, the other hears criticism; both defend themselves against an injury neither can discuss productively.
The work is not to appoint a winner. It is to identify the sequence that repeatedly takes over, understand what each person is protecting, and develop a way to speak and listen that does not reproduce the same result.
Couples therapy may address communication, conflict, trust, intimacy, family boundaries, and the effects of past injuries on the present relationship.
Family therapy
Family problems are rarely located in only one person. A teenager's behavior, a parent's anxiety, a divorce, a remarriage, or one family member's mental-health difficulty can reorganize the entire household.
Family sessions examine the roles and assumptions that have developed around the problem. The purpose is not forced agreement. It is a more accurate understanding of what is happening and a more workable way of responding to it.
Extended trauma sessions
The standard therapy hour is not always the most useful format. Extended sessions allow sustained work without stopping just as important material becomes accessible.
This format may be appropriate for trauma and PTSD, eating and body-image concerns, perfectionism and overcontrol, ADHD-related overwhelm, and difficult relationship patterns. Extended sessions are available to new and established clients after a consultation about suitability.
Getting started
Appointments are offered in Cumming, Sandy Springs, and by telehealth throughout Georgia.