My hours are Tuesdays and Thursdays all day with some other evenings upon request. I take appointments upon request but maintain a 48-hour cancellation policy.

I offer an existential therapy to determined men and women struggling with their history of trauma who feel anchored, purposeless, and paralyzed in their lives. I help them understand, change, and thoroughly evolve their life course, by incorporating the most individualized, innovative, and empirically supported treatment strategies as well as timeless philosophies of the human condition they will ever experience.

Psychotherapy is not always about “fixing what is broken.” Psychotherapy is about enhancing and advancing what one has within. I incorporate the values of positive psychology to encourage the growth of character; the cultivation of self.

At Insightful Direction, I have primarily worked with private pay, and many clients prefer this method because of freedom, confidentiality, and control.

Keep in mind that although private pay is costlier up front, you can include your payments as medical tax deductions. A sliding scale always remains an option.

When searching for a therapist, some individuals rely on insurance as a condition for treatment. However, I welcome you to consider a few things: Though insurance pays a fraction of the cost, they are involved in your treatment almost as much as you.

For insurance to be used, there MUST be a diagnosis; and for continued service, treatment must be deemed “medically necessary.” For insurances to reimburse claims, they require access to notes and at any time may audit session recordings. They will have free range to read and document any details you share, even the most sensitive and private. This can sometimes inhibit clients from full disclosure and thus limit my ability to serve them.

Additionally, for insurances to be continued, there must be quantifiable data of your symptom management. If you are doing “better,” they may not allow you additional services.

Individual psychotherapy sessions are 50 minutes. I allow an additional ten minutes for catch up if one is running late, or there is considerable crisis. If you are interested in longer sessions, that option is always available to you.

Frequency of visits will always remain at your discretion, as you know yourself better than anyone. I have worked with individuals that come from twice a week to once every two months. I have found that more regular sessions are sustainable to feeling better and a lasting recovery – especially in the beginning of treatment.

Because there is more than one person in Couples and Family work, I have a differing time table: 75 and 90 minutes, respectively. Again, individualized duration and frequency is always in your power.

During Insight-Out, I schedule a minimum of 90 minutes for clinical work, but of course time is subject to you.

Yes! At Insightful Direction, I regularly work with young explorers. However, I do not work directly with those under the age of 12 but do work with family members in assisting them with particular behavioral and emotional issues. By working directly with family members, the interventions with children will come more from them then me. It is a more organic and family-oriented approach.

Though there is a science to human nature, every human being is different. And thus, it is my mission to meet every client where they are and engage with whatever learning style works for them. Traditionally, I am Insight Oriented, but utilize different modalities when needed or preferred. Other such modalities include:

Wherever I travel, I meet fantastic people. I love learning about their culture, their customs, and personal relationships.

Through sitting softly and taking in their way of life, I feel enriched. Through asking questions and engaging with locals, I feel humbly wiser. Learning from others and valuing difference has been the most rewarding teaching as a psychotherapist.

As a people, we are not all the same. We come from different lands and values. Seeing that up close and personal is much more incredible than reading it from a book or learning from an expert.

I like to journey on my own Insightful Direction by going to three other countries a year. So far, I have been to Denmark, Uganda, Iceland, England, France, Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Vatican City, Portugal, The United Arab Emirates, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Greece. Every time I travel, I make an effort to dine at a several-starred Michelin restaurant and, which I find more exciting, local “holes-in-the-wall” that most tourists overlook.

My two most rewarding experiences dining were over a five-course meal in the Eiffel Tower during an April sunset. And squatting at the mouth of the Nile over a bowl of rice and matoke at a July Sunrise.

As most of my clients will tell you, I remind them that there are different parts to who we are. Sometimes our ability to express these different aspects of self are inhibited whether by societal or cultural standards – or life and family circumstances.

Dungeons & Dragons has been that outlet of expression. Creating a heroic character, campaigning against good and evil is my form of creativity and curiosity.

It allows me to channel my vital powers and intentionally experience myself in the way that I have desired, but otherwise hid from. It allows adaptability of mind, momentary existential crisis, and necessary engagement with imagination to truly uncover who I can become.

… I’m also just a geek.