If you are coming for individual therapy, I will spend 50 minutes with you. If you are coming for couple therapy, I will spend 70 minutes with you and your partner. In this initial session whether it be couple or individual, we will be talking together about your presenting concerns, the history of the problem and your attempts to solve it, and we will be assessing whether I am the right therapist for you. I will be making sure my areas of experience are approprate to your presenting concerns, and I hope you will be thinking about that same question, as well as trying to decide if I seem like someone who you can comfortably talk to and trust. At the end of the first session, we should have a plan as to whether we will work together in the future, and how we will go about doing that.
When you come for your first appointment, please bring with you the patient information form and the consent form that I will have emailed to you after our first phone contact.
