Therapeutic Style

In session, I like to participate and interact in a dialogue; not just sit back, ask questions, and take notes. My intention is to engage so we can creatively brain storm together and develop practical solutions that you can immediately apply after each session. Whether we are engaged in couples counseling or individual therapy, I see you and I as a team strategizing on how best to improve and optimize the specific challenges you have. I expect to work hard so that every session can provide solutions and the potential for change.

I tailor each therapy session to meet your immediate needs. It is my guiding principle that every person and each couple are unique and need to have therapy custom made just for them. I trust my own intuition as well as the preferences and inclinations of my clients to tell us what each therapy session should look like. This spontaneity combined with sensitivity makes my work kind, swift, exciting, and enlivening.

Theoretical Orientation

I have received training through my education in many theories of psychology. Because I appreciate specific aspects of each theory, I tend to use principles and practices from them on an as needed basis. I subscribe to a humanistic and transpersonal framework.

In alignment with humanistic psychology, I treat people like human beings rather than relational and diagnostic categories. In the transpersonal sense, I view people as being comprised of mind, body, and spirit and appreciate the importance of finding fulfillment through extraordinary and exceptional human experiences that make our lives full and complete.

In terms of couples counseling, the approach I use depends on the needs of the couple. The primary couple counseling methods that I use include:

• Psychoanalytic, object relations, transgenerational, pluralistic, and narrative, all of which focus on issues stemming from childhood as the basis for problems in the relationship.
• Cognitive behavioral, behavioral, integrative behavioral, emotionally focused, and ego analytical, which help with communication issues.
• Solution focused and structural therapies, which are solution-based approaches that are good when a more furture-oriented approach is needed.
• Bowen family systems, an approach during which the couples counselor becomes part of the relationship dynamic in session..
• The Gottman approach, which focuses on the couple's strengths as opposed to weaknesses.

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San Jose Couples Counseling provides couples counseling, improves communication and intimacy, reduces conflict and provides relationship counseling and parenting counseling. Service area includes San Jose, Sunnyvale, Santa Cruz, Palo Alto, Monte Sereno, Los Gatos, Cupertino, Mountain View, Scotts Valley, Campbell, Willow Glen, and Milpitas CA.