Treatment for grown-ups

I'm often asked if I also see adults in my practice. Yes — I absolutely see adults for their own concerns, not just as parents of the kids and teens I work with. I typically see adults during school hours, and children and adolescents once school lets out. On any given day, about a third of the people I work with are adults.

People come to me for a range of reasons: anxiety that's gotten louder than it used to be, depression that's made ordinary life harder to move through, relationship patterns that keep repeating no matter how much insight you already have, or just a sense that something needs to shift and you're not sure where to start.

For the most part, my approach with adults is the same regardless of what brought you in: cognitive-behavioral therapy (and, when it fits, CBT-derived approaches like acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and exposure therapy), along with Internal Family Systems (IFS). The goal, whichever model we end up using, is the same: to get a clearer look at the patterns that keep playing out in your life, and to loosen their grip.

This isn't work designed to last for years and years. Deep, open-ended psychoanalysis has its place, and if that's what you're looking for, I'm glad to point you toward someone who does that kind of longer-term work. My training and interest are in something more focused: what's going on for you right now, and what you'd like to see play out differently for yourself, and for your relationships going forward.

If you'd like to explore whether working together makes sense, just reach out.