To best respond to what will be most helpful to you  I can offer you  varied and effective approaches.  I work as a team member determining from you what your goals are and how you will know you have reached them.  As an active therapist I educate, coach, explore, tease with good humor, praise, gives homework, challenge and hold myself accountable to you getting the help you want. 

 I utilize mindfulness, emdr, emotional freedom techniques (tapping) systematic relaxation, role playing, guided imagery, and body centered therapy-processes.  I support and help you fine tune  skills and awareness you already have.  And I do my best to also help you discover the natural intelligence and abilities you may not yet even be aware of.

I can be warm, respectful, patient, and honoring of experiences that have brought you to therapy, and I can be an  unerringly honest advocate for you.  I have learned that truth, even if it is painful, is a huge and freeing catalyst for change.

Client come to therapy having already spent many hours trying to find a solution.  They are impatient for change and relief and want results.  I respect and honor that fervor and expectation.   The resources of time and money are precious and you should get good results.

.During our first meeting you will be able to determine whether  I am a good person for you to work with.  And if by the end of that session you h ave decided that I am not, I will not charge you for the session.  It is essential that you find the best possible fit for this work together.  I will consistently check in with you regarding your satisfaction and sense of accomplishment towards achieving your goals.  If something isn't working, we try something else.

I have also discovered that a brief, occasional email or phone call between sessions can be incredibly helpful.   Homework supports what we do in sessions and provides a way to chart your own progress.  It helps tremendously when clients identify specific goals  which make them  the pilot and me the co pilot on your journey to creating the life you want.

I hope you will visit my website www.jmartinsftherapy.com to learn more about me and the kind of support and help you can expect from me.  It will be a pleasure to work together and champion you inmeeting the goals you have identified.