The Work
My Approach
My clinical roots are in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, EMDR, and the work of C.G. Jung. After more than 25 years, that foundation is simply part of how I think. But the work has deepened considerably over time, and Jungian psychology has become central to how I understand people and what drives them. These three approaches address different layers of the same person. Used together, with discipline and a clear clinical framework, they make for a remarkably complete way of working.
CBT
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy uncovers the core beliefs formed in childhood that drive your thoughts, feelings, and behavior, often without your awareness. These beliefs shape how you see yourself, other people, and the world. The work is to bring them into focus, examine them honestly, and revise what no longer serves you. It is not a list of coping strategies. It is a serious process of change.
Jungian Psychology
Jung believed that much of what drives us lives outside conscious awareness. Jungian work attends to those layers: the parts of yourself you have disowned, the patterns that repeat, the unlived possibilities pressing against who you think you are. Where CBT and EMDR work with precision and structure, Jungian psychology opens into something wider. Together, they make for a remarkably complete way of understanding a person.
EMDR
EMDR uses bilateral stimulation to process experiences that have remained stuck. Trauma and the beliefs that form around it can resist talk therapy alone. EMDR reaches those experiences differently, shifting the emotional weight of a memory without requiring you to narrate it repeatedly. It works at a level that is both physiological and psychological.
How These Approaches Work Together
For most of my career, I was skeptical of therapists who described themselves as eclectic. In my experience, eclecticism too often meant an absence of real grounding, a little of this, a little of that, with no coherent clinical logic underneath. I believed then, and still believe, that good therapy requires discipline and a genuine command of what you are doing and why.
What changed is not that conviction. What changed is my understanding of how CBT, EMDR, and Jungian psychology address different layers of the same person, and how remarkably well they fit together when held by a clear clinical framework.
CBT works at the level of conscious belief. It makes the implicit explicit, names the patterns, and creates the conditions for deliberate change. EMDR works at the level of the body and memory, reaching what cognition alone cannot always touch. Jungian psychology works at the level of the deeper self, the unconscious material that neither structured protocols nor trauma processing fully illuminate.
A person is all of these layers at once. The most meaningful therapeutic work I have done has drawn on all three, not interchangeably or arbitrarily, but because the person in front of me required that kind of depth and range.
This is not eclecticism. It is integration, and there is a difference.