Virtual psychotherapy for adults — depth-oriented work for people ready to look underneath the surface.
I work as a Licensed Professional Counselor offering depth-oriented psychotherapy to adults of all identities via telehealth. My practice is called Third Alternative Counseling because of how I understand what good clinical work makes possible.
Most psychological difficulty presents itself as a binary. Stay or leave. Fight or accommodate. Accept what cannot be changed or fight against it. Become someone different or remain who you have been. The presenting binary is rarely the actual situation. It is the framing the difficulty arrives in. Clinical work, when it functions, tends to surface a third alternative — not a compromise between the two original options, but a different way of holding the situation that was not visible while the binary was running. The third alternative is not always available. When it is, it tends to come from understanding the situation more deeply rather than from choosing between the original options more decisively.
I draw on Alfred Adler's recognition that human beings strive toward meaning and significance, on existential thinking about what it costs to live authentically, and on relational psychoanalytic understanding of how early relationships organize adult patterns. For more on how these traditions inform my work, click here. In practice, this means I am interested in what is actually happening in your life and in the patterns underneath it, not in fitting your experience into a framework that does not match it.
The people I work with are typically adults navigating life transitions, relational complexity, family-of-origin material that has become operative in adult life, or the broader sense that something is not working at a level they cannot quite locate. Some come in with specific symptoms they want addressed. Others come in carrying weight from earlier developmental contexts that has shaped how they have been operating without their knowing how much. Both kinds of work belong in the room.
My approach involves genuine engagement with what you bring rather than performance of professional listening. I am direct when directness serves the work and patient when patience serves it. I am willing to push back on patterns that are not serving you. I am also willing to wait when the work needs to develop at its own pace. I tend to ask questions that open material rather than provide solutions that close it. My experience is that most clients arrive with more capacity to do their own work than they have been crediting themselves for. The work of therapy is often about creating the conditions for that capacity to operate rather than supplying answers from outside.
Anxiety. Depression. Complex grief. Relationship and family-of-origin dynamics. Work and career transitions. Identity questions. Trauma and its developmental aftermath. The broader category of feeling that something is not right that does not yet have a clearer name. I have particular experience with high-functioning professionals whose external success has not produced the felt experience of meaning or wellbeing they expected it to.
Some clients in individual treatment reach moments where bringing their partner into a session would serve the work. The partner's perspective adds something the individual lens cannot supply. Specific impasses become workable in the dyad that could not be reached individually. Patterns become visible when the two people are in the room together that did not surface when only one was present.
When this is clinically useful, I offer couples consultation as an adjunctive component of individual work. These sessions remain part of the individual client's treatment rather than constituting separate couples therapy, with the partner attending in support of the existing work.
My training is in individual psychotherapy, not in the systematic couples therapy methodologies — Gottman Method, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Integrative Behavioral Couples Therapy, or IMAGO. Couples seeking that kind of structured methodology-specific work are best served by practitioners trained in those approaches. I am happy to provide referrals.
If you are considering working with me, I would suggest reviewing whether my orientation matches what you are looking for. Some people want directive, solution-focused work that targets specific symptoms over a defined period. That is legitimate work and I refer clients toward it when it is the right fit. Some couples want systematic couples-focused treatment with specific methodology — that work is best done with practitioners trained in those approaches and I can refer accordingly. My work is different — it tends to be more open-ended, more interested in the deeper architecture organizing your patterns, and oriented toward sustained developmental change rather than symptom management alone. Clients who do well in my practice are typically those who want to understand themselves more fully and who are willing to do work that takes time.
I graduated from the University of Scranton in 2000 and have continued my professional development through twenty-five years of clinical practice and self-directed study across psychology, philosophy, and related fields. Ongoing intellectual engagement with the work is part of what I bring to the room.
$200 per 50-minute session, held virtually via telehealth. The same fee and session length apply to couples consultation sessions within individual treatment.
Payment by cash, check, Venmo, or Zelle. I do not bill insurance directly. On request I can provide a superbill for possible out-of-network reimbursement.
The first step is an email. Tell me a little about what is bringing you in and we will set up a time to talk.
☎ 410-908-6407