Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, I was already working with about 50% of my clients via the internet.  With the advent of the Governor's shutdown order, I moved all of my psychotherapy sessions online, using the secure, HIPAA-compliant platform I had been using since leaving Austin, Texas.

As it turned out, most of my patients expressed a preference for virtual sessions because it allowed them to meet from the privacy and comfort of their home and avoid a long, inconvenient trek to a therapist's office.

 I found that I also preferred working over the internet from my home office because my sessions with patients tended to be more relaxed, and people felt freer to be forthcoming about their psychological concerns.  Since that time, I have chosen to continue to work via a secure Zoom platform from the quiet of my home office.

My style is active and engaged, employing interpretation (connecting feelings, thoughts, and behaviors to past and current events), confrontation (pointing out discrepancies between the client's goals and their actions), and education (recommending books, giving homework, or explaining relevant research findings).   I check in regularly with patients to see how they are reacting to the therapy process so that we can work collaboratively to proceed toward their goals.  Finally, the goal of therapy is to improve the life functioning of the client.

In addition to treating depression, anxiety, and eating disorders, I have expertise in doing psychotherapy with the parents of out-of-control adolescents and with young adults who seem to have become "stuck" somewhere in the maturational process and could be described as displaying a "Failure to Launch".  I also have an interest in working with clients who have had prior treatment that proved ineffective.