Live with Purpose, Be Free, Connect with Others
Wellbeing is enhanced through connection, freedom and purpose. Therapy done right builds on personal connection, finds unrecognized freedoms, and orients it all with purpose, values and place. I integrate these threads with openness, balance, warmth and wit. My practice cultivates resilience not dependence, vitality not victim-trap ideologies that are currently fashionable in some circles. I can help you acknowledge and overcome pains, reckon realistically with limits, and untangle other matters of the heart. Some pain is a part of life, but you needn’t suffer or manage it all alone.
Hard-won skills from higher education join common sense (e.g. family, values, sanctity) and life experience lessons. Together we can build strengths, acknowledge weaknesses, and facilitate trust and acceptance to enhance your capacities for love and work.
Douglas Novotny, Ph.D.
Licensed Psychologist