About Psychotherapy

There are numerous online resources that provide both broad and specialized information about psychotherapy and its practices. For example, Wikipedia, Psychotherapy.com (or similar), and the California Board of Psychology are all excellent resources.

More specifically, my own, more personal definition of psychotherapy is: a collaborative process where the client and therapist make sense of the client's experience. In some ways it is like a puzzle, where not all of the pieces are known. Together, we work towards discovering some of the unknown pieces, and attempt to uncover how and why these conscious and/or unconscious experiences cause you to act and feel in specific, and often predictable ways. Importantly, over time, we (together) foster insight into some of the root causes of feelings and behaviors. The goal of such inner work is to promote more authentic self-understanding, self-acceptance, and restore balance to one's life.

In general, there are some subtle but significant differences between counseling, short-term psychotherapy, and long-term psychotherapy. I primarily do long-term psychotherapy (> 15 sessions).

I speak English and Russian (По-Русски)

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