What if the problem
isn't actually the problem?
Most people who find their way to me have already tried to figure things out. Another therapist, books, sheer willpower. Things may have gotten a little better. But the same patterns keep showing up. The same feelings. The same stuck.
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That's not a failure of effort. It's a sign something deeper needs attention. I don't work on the surface. I work on what's underneath, at the root.
There is nothing wrong with you. You are not broken. You are not a diagnosis. You are a human being responding to what has happened to you. Any person who went through what you went through would likely be doing exactly the same thing.
- Dr. Dave Hovey
This is where transformation begins
Root, not surface
What you come in with is rarely the whole story. The real work happens at the source, not the surface.
Real work, not heavy work
This work goes to real places. But I use humor the way a good surgeon uses precision — to move through the hard stuff, not around it. We’ll probably laugh... a lot!
Human to human
No clipboard, no clinical distance. I've done my own deep work, and I still do because I can't take you somewhere I haven't been willing to go myself.
A gentleman in his mid-40s came to Dave: accomplished, respected, and completely alone. He hadn't had a relationship last more than a few weeks in years. He just knew something had to shift. Recently, he told Dave he needed to take a month off from his sessions — for paternity leave. "Not in a million years," he said, "did I think I'd get here."
She came in to talk about her anxiety around starting a graduate program. Within a few sessions, she and Dave had found something much older underneath it: a pattern that had been quietly running her relationships, her choices, her sense of herself for years. "I came in for one thing," she said later. "I had no idea how much other stuff was going on."
He'd been in therapy before, twice, with two different therapists. Both times it felt like, as he put it, "expensive coffee with someone who was being paid to listen." A colleague pointed him toward Dave. Three months in, he stopped mid-session and said, "I don't know what you're doing differently. But you're in my head in a way nobody else has ever been."
What's possible
We’ll start with a brief conversation about what you’re experiencing and whether working together feels like the right fit.
Schedule a chat
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If we decide to work together, we’ll explore the deeper influences behind recurring challenges and frustrations.
Understand the pattern
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Move forward with greater clarity, confidence, and intention.
Create meaningful change
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How we work together
Is this right for you?
I work best with people whose lives look mostly fine from the outside, but something underneath isn't working. A pattern that keeps repeating. A feeling they can't shake.
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If you want a few sessions and a toolkit, I'm happy to point you toward someone who does that well. But if you're ready to change it at the root, the results you can achieve may genuinely surprise you.