Person-Centered Therapy
An outside perspective on your concerns, with your own experience and priorities guiding the conversation.
An Outside Perspective Without Another Agenda
Friends and family may care about you and still have their own ideas about your decisions. Sometimes you want someone outside those relationships to help you check what makes sense. I use person-centered therapy with adults roughly 20 to 45 who are seeking that kind of conversation. Your experience and priorities guide the work, including when you are unsure how to describe them.
Bring the Concern in Your Own Words
You do not need a clinical term for why you are here. You might say that small things are overwhelming you or that you cannot tell if you are on track. I listen to the example and ask questions that help clarify it, rather than assigning you a ready-made explanation.
Make the Relationship Part of the Work
A person-centered approach pays attention to how we talk together. I want you to be able to disagree, correct my understanding or tell me when a question misses the point. Those exchanges help me hear your experience more accurately and keep our conversation from becoming another exercise in pleasing someone.
Check Your Own View of the Situation
I can reflect what I hear when you are weighing a new job or questioning a relationship decision. That perspective is different from deciding for you. We look at the concerns, assumptions and priorities you bring so you have more information about your own judgment, including where uncertainty remains.
Discuss the Feelings Behind the Explanation
A detailed account of a week can leave little room for how it actually felt. I may ask what was hardest about a specific conversation or what you needed afterward. That helps us include disappointment, relief or frustration alongside the facts, without requiring you to justify having the feeling.
You can tell me when my understanding does not match your experience.
Bridget Moore, LCSWLet Your Priorities Shape the Goals
At the first appointment, I ask about your history and what you want from therapy. Your goal might involve less second guessing, a clearer decision or responding differently to worry. We agree on a focus together and revisit it when a new concern becomes more important to your daily life.
Keep Practical Skills Available
Person-centered work does not mean I stay silent when a tool could be useful. I also draw on CBT, ACT, DBT skills and psychodynamic therapy. If a repeated thought or a difficult emotion needs a practical response, we can discuss an exercise while keeping your perspective central to the choice.
Know Who Chooses This Work
My practice is for adults 18 and up seeking therapy for themselves, not teens sent by parents. College students, young professionals and new parents may arrive with different concerns about their direction. A consultation gives you time to ask about my style and decide if this kind of conversation appeals to you.
Choose Where We Talk
I see clients in person in Shelton and online in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Rhode Island. For an online meeting, you must be physically in a licensed state at session time. I keep weekday daytime hours, so we check the format and timing before arranging the 60-minute intake.
Ask About a Conversation Centered on You
Request a free 15-minute consultation to discuss the outside perspective you are looking for. We can consider your priorities and whether my way of working feels like a useful fit.
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