Approach

I work in the person-centered tradition, the one started by Carl Rogers. Stripped of jargon, it rests on a simple bet: that people move toward health when someone actually listens to them, without judging, without steering, without waiting for their turn to give advice.

What that looks like in the room

I will not hand you a diagnosis in the first session and a worksheet in the second. Mostly, I will try to understand how things look from where you stand: properly understand, not nod-along understand. That sounds modest. Done consistently, it is not. Most people have never had an hour a week where someone's full job is to get them right.

What it asks of you

Honesty at whatever pace you can afford. There is no preparing for sessions, no homework you'll be graded on. The tools in the library are offered, never assigned: if one is useful, we use it; if it isn't, we drop it.

What it asks of me

To show up as a person, not a technique. To tell you the truth, including when the truth is "I don't know." And to keep my own reactions out of your way.

Does it work?

The relationship between therapist and client is the best-supported predictor of therapy outcome across every school, better supported than any specific method. Person-centered therapy takes that finding and makes it the whole point.