MY APPROACH TO YOUR PERSONAL GROWTH AND LIBERATION IS HEART BASED AND HOLISTIC. I AM HIGHLY TRAINED IN A VARIETY OF PROCESSES INCLUDING TRADITIONAL TALK THERAPY, GUIDED VISUALIZATION, INNER CHILD WORK, SOMATIC TRAUMA HEALING WORK, YOGA AND MEDITATION PRACTICES.
I AM DEEPLY COMMITTED TO YOUR EMPOWERMENT AND TO THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS!
Individual Therapy
Our therapeutic relationship is based upon confidentiality, mutual trust, respect, honesty, and compassion. Treatment may last for a few sessions and it may last longer, depending upon your goals, intentions, and progress. I help you develop awareness, teach you new tools and empower you to live more contented fulfilled lives.
In individual counseling you meet with me for sixty minutes. The first session/s includes an assessment of your therapy intentions, presenting issues, and an inventory of history, old patterns, strengths and tools. Based upon all of this I develop a treatment plan with you to meet your goals.
Child & Adolescent Therapy
My treatment of young people is based on building strong loving relationships between myself and your children. The work often focuses upon increasing self-confidence and self-esteem, and the creation of healthy coping skills, which leads to making healthy life choices. My extensive background in neuropsychology gives me an understanding of learning and school differences/issues if they are present.
Children and adolescents have special needs in therapy and frequently require more creative activity in sessions to achieve success. The adult one-to-one model of an hour of verbal interaction is not as effective as interspersing the session with therapeutic play. During such creative activity children and adolescents communicate their needs and feelings more directly and deeply.
Neither children nor parents are born with manuals! Parents at times beat themselves up for not being perfect. Children and adolescents often want to connect, but may act out or push parents away because they don’t know how to get their needs met effectively. I have over 40 years of experience working with children and adolescents who are experiencing attachment struggles, issues related to trauma, anxiety, depression, as well as grief and loss related to divorce and other family transitions.
Family Counseling
Sometimes in child/adolescent therapy it is important to have family sessions to foster understanding between parents and children. During these sessions new healthy strategies and structures are negotiated to enhance overall family function.
Couples Therapy
Experiencing challenge within relationship is normal. Damage to relationship occurs when patterns of conflict continue unexamined and unresolved over time. Hurt feelings become magnified, unhealthy energy gets entrenched, defensive walls of protection are built. All of this leads to a reduction of intimacy and loss of meaningful loving connection.
In couples therapy we work together to identify and explore the source of the entrenched walls and clear the energy that keeps couples locked into these destructive dances. Couples gain compassionate insight into their role and their partner’s role in the old pattern. Partners are taught how to take responsibility and how to make the necessary shifts. Original agreements made between partners are unearthed and updated to serve current needs.
