Therapists in Burlington, Vermont

If I could tell every new client just one thing, it's this: overthinking isn't a character flaw. It's a habit your mind built because it once seemed to keep you protected, and habits can be rebuilt.

People assume therapy means endlessly excavating your past. Often it simply means telling the truth about your present to someone equipped to help you change it.

If I could tell every new client one thing, it would be this: the messy version of your story is the useful one. Nobody arrives with a thesis, and nobody should try to.

I believe therapy works when it is honest, unhurried, and specific to the person in the chair. That is my whole philosophy.

I am a therapist for adults whose memory does not stay where they put it. My clients are usually managing a lot successfully while contending with material that arrives uninvited and at inconvenient moments.

Most people call me the week something small finally tips the scale. A missed birthday, a snapped reply, one more Sunday evening spent dreading the week ahead.

The call usually comes after a stretch of gray days finally outlasts your patience, once the private pep talks have gone hoarse and the fixes that used to work have quietly quit. That is a sensible moment to bring in help, not a dramatic one.

One belief I would happily retire is that grief heals on its own, that if you simply wait long enough the ache dissolves by itself. Time does matter, but time alone is not treatment.