My knowledge and experience comes from a variety of places.   In no particular order:

what I know about people from studying psychology
what I know about people from being a person in the world
what I know about people from the many, many people I’ve worked with over the years
what I know about people from being a psychotherapist, and from psychotherapy in general
what I know about people from fields related to psychotherapy, including coaching and counselling

The approach that I would say summarizes what I do most accurately is therapeutic coaching.   Coaching is a goal-directed, anything goes approach to helping a person move towards what is a better life for them, as they define it.  Therapeutic coaching, which is a relatively new approach, is the result of a bunch of coaches recognizing that there are some really good reasons why helping people make change in their lives is not nearly as easy as it looks and feels like it should be, and how you use that information to really make a difference.  

Over the years, I have learned a lot about how much people differ from one another, and how much that means that what helps people can be very different for different people.   So I work very differently, depending on who I’m working with and what I think will work best for them.

So I can’t tell you if I might be able to help you.   I certainly can’t tell you what form that help might take.  But if you come and see me, I give you a free hour.   You tell me what you would like from our hour, as much as you can.  I ask you some questions.  I give you some information.  I make some suggestions.  Some of them are small suggestions that you can, if you choose, adopt right away.   Some of them are resources that I think might be useful to you -- a book, a community resource, an online support group.   Some of them might be work that I think you and I could do together that I think would be helpful.   I might suggest that you do psychotherapy, and give you some help with how one finds a good psychotherapist.  

And then in that session or afterward, you decide if you would like to meet with me again.