I work with clients who want to improve the way they experience life. The desire for better relationships with themselves and with others, and to gain a sense of purpose and meaning. I’ve always been interested in what drives people and believe that we can usually discover what is best for ourselves if we slow down, take the time to think things through, talk about it with a person we trust, and express the feelings we have in healthy ways—even the negative ones we may try to avoid. I use a number of therapeutic modalities in my practice, which connect thoughts to feelings and feelings to thoughts, enabling my clients to change and grow in the positive direction that they might envision for themselves. I work with clients who have struggled with addiction, anger, anxiety, depression, relationship separation, internal conflict and conflict with others, grief and loss, and other transitions and adjustment issues. I have completed Gottman trainings, as well as Emotion-Focused Therapy, which offers a structured approach and an emotional map for couples or individuals to learn how successful couples make their relationships last and how to handle conflict in a way that prevents damage to the relationship and helps them feel better connected to their partner. I am also trained in EMDR, a therapy designed to help a person unlock their nervous system to recover from trauma, PTSD, depression, anxiety, and other problems that can take hold.

What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?

Clients can expect to see what may happen in their next session in terms of a plan for treatment. It is important also to convey that therapy can be brief or extensive dependent upon the issues or conditions that they may have. Working on life’s issues can be challenging, as we deal with the ups and downs it presents while wanting to make progress, or to just make it through the day. Life doesn’t always turn out the way we hope or believe it should. By relating the story of your experiences in a safe and supportive environment, and gaining new insight into how to look upon problems, a renewed belief in yourself may offer you a sense of relief and a new direction to follow.

Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.

My greatest strengths as a provider are how I get to know my clients so that I can match where they are in life with the best treatment modality that I am familiar with. For many clients this might be "talk therapy" until I note that they might have possible traumatic experiences that may best be helped by EMDR or IFS (Internal Family Systems)-informed treatments . Another example may be those that need to be reminded of their own strengths as clients and might only need a solutions approach towards therapy. Other clients can benefit from one of the Cognitively driven approaches such as CBT, DBT, or CPT in which a dialogue with me as their provider benefits them with their own discoveries of how they might be subjected to their own misconceptions of what they are capable of and may be able to resolve.

Describe the client(s) you are best positioned to serve.

I'm best positioned to serve adolescents, adults, couples, or families.

About Roy Faget