Professional Consultation

I provide consultation to psychotherapists and psychiatrists seeking to deepen and expand their clinical skills and navigate complex therapeutic dynamics. In consultation, I will help you to recognize patterns in your personal and clinical relationships and identify ways in which your therapy can be more powerful and effective.

Together, we explore not only your patients’ issues but also your own experience in the therapeutic relationship and explore how your own reactions and therapeutic style hinder or improve your patient’s progress.

Areas of Focus May Include:

• Private Practice Development
• Enhancing your use of the therapeutic relationship as a clinical tool
• Working with resistance, ambivalence, and defense mechanisms
• Developing confidence with vulnerable or emotionally intense material
• Being vulnerable with clients
• Navigating countertransference and challenging client interactions
• Improving feedback and confrontation skills
• Helping clients feel their drive (“heat”) to change
• Therapist self-care (setting boundaries, fee setting, fee collecting)
• Understanding dynamics in couples or group therapy
• Working with parents on discipline techniques and the parents’ or therapists’ resistance to holding the line when necessary
• Working with clients with physical disabilities and parents of children with disabilities

I work with clinicians who are motivated to grow and evolve in their work. If you’re looking to become not only more competent, but more personally effective as a therapist or psychiatrist, consultation can be a transformative process.