Individual Psychotherapy | Couples Psychotherapy
Group Psychotherapy | Family Psychotherapy | Supervision


Individual Psychotherapy:
This is the most traditional form of treatment. Most often meetings are scheduled for an hour a week, although sometimes more intensive treatment is desired. While the immediate crisis usually compels a person to seek therapy, deeper work can occur once the initial troubles begin to in-resolve. Here the therapist strives to create a safe and trusting environment so the patient can examine personal issues. The relationship between the patient and the therapist creates a microcosm of the patient's relationships outside of the therapy room. This frame can then be slowed and carefully examined so the patient can begin to understand how to expand their capacity to deal with complex situations with integrity and personal satisfaction.


Couples Psychotherapy:
In this work couples can examine how it is that they relate to one another and how to get more out of their primary relationship. Couples can get help in learning how to get past the experience of feeling like few if any disagreements ever get resolved. Hurtful dynamics can be examined in a non-shaming environment and hopefully eliminated over time. Usually the therapist helps the patients come to terms with their mixed feelings about continuing in the relationship. If both members of the couple choose to stay together then the process is to help the partners learn how to create more intimacy in their relationship. If they choose to seperate, the process moves toward examining how to do that with maximum integrity.


Group Psychotherapy:
This process is somewhat more affordable then individual work and occurs weekly. Currently I am co-leading two on-going process groups with my partner in Bethesda, Lisa Mcpherson-Robinson, LCSW-C. Initially entering a group can feel quite risky and somewhat over-whelming. Once people work through the initial task of joining the group, they report tremendous satisfaction. These groups consist of both men and women and as such relationship with both sexes can be experienced and understood with the help of the leaders. It is the leaders' job to create a safe and open environment where each member can come to understand better what it is that they do that helps create more or less intimacy in their lives.

I am initiating at least one on-going process group in Annapolis for the Fall of 2005 and I am currently interviewing potential members.

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Family Psychotherapy:
This process involves two or more members of family. Often times conflict between family members creates tension, or troubles for particular members or the whole family. Like the group process, multiple relationships are at play simultaneously in the consulting room. This process can be slowed and the hope is to raise everybody's awareness of how family members impact one another. The drive is to work toward more closeness and less alienation.


Supervision:
This is part of the therapy tradition in which another therapist asks for on-going consulation about their clinical work. In particular the process focuses in on corrective techniques to help deepen the therapeutic relationship. A premium value is placed on the person of the therapsit. This often serves a dual function in helping therapists learn more about their work and themselves simultaneously.