How therapy with me works

Understanding first. Then decisions.

A deliberate arc: patterns before choices, self-knowledge before change. Here is how a course of therapy at C-G Health actually unfolds.

How therapy with me works

I don't start by telling you what to change. We start by understanding how you got here, and only then do we decide, together, what comes next.

1

Look at the patterns

We look honestly at how you've been functioning over the past years: the patterns that keep repeating, and where they came from.
2

Build the understanding

Together we map your behaviors, your emotional world, and the ways you think. This self-reading is the real work, and it's what makes lasting change possible.
3

Decide, collaboratively

Once you understand the patterns, you decide how you want to move forward. I bring the clinical guidance; you stay the author of the decision.
4

Build new patterns

We put the new ways of functioning into practice, building efficacy, hope, and a steadier sense of yourself along the way.

You are the author. My job is to help you read the page clearly before you write the next one.

The approaches I draw from

Trained in several methods. Chosen to fit you.

No one modality fits every person or every phase of the work. Here are the frameworks I lean on, and when I use each.

Life traps

Schema Therapy

Working with the deep, early patterns ('life traps') that shape how you feel, connect, and choose as an adult.
CBT

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Practical work on the thoughts and behaviors that keep anxiety, low mood, or unhelpful cycles in place.
Couples

Gottman Method

Research-based couples work: communication, trust, conflict repair, and building a shared sense of us.
Insight

Psychodynamic

Understanding how earlier experience and relationships still show up in your current life, and what that opens.
Regulation

Mindfulness-based

Steadier attention to what's happening in your body and mind, so you can respond instead of react.