Therapy

Therapy is a place where you can speak the truth about yourself, and where you will be supported and encouraged to grow. Psychotherapy can help you resolve relational conflicts, childhood traumas, and awaken your creativity. I will help you understand your current struggles and difficulties as meaningful phases in your development through the life cycle. Together we'll discover what has wounded or inhibited you, identify attitudinal obstacles and disfunctional behaviors and cognitions, and develop strategies for life change. By revisiting points of maturational stress, we can resolve them and free up energy for change. The process will aid you in fulfilling your relational, occupational, artistic, and spiritual potentials.

My approach to integrative psychotherapy emphasizes understanding your family of origin and current family dynamics, deepening your emotional awareness, and the practice of therapeutic dreamwork, which illuminates relationships, feelings, and necessary next steps. I'll introduce you to yoga, breathing methods, and a very effective and easy "three minute meditation." These practices cultivate clarity, tranquility, energy, and mind-body integration. These are natural antidepressants and are helpful for stress and anxiety. I'll encourage you to enhance your physical and emotional health through regular exercise, healthy diet, connection to nature, and other health- and consciousness-enhancing disciplines. This may involve working in concert with a holistic physician, chiropractor, herbalist, or other somatic practitioner.

I work with clients grappling with anger, depression, relational stress, chronic illness, seasonal affective disorder, sexual problems and conflicts, substance abuse, children of alcoholics, and histories of physical abuse. I work with many clients seeking creative expression of their talents as artists, writers, actors, and musicians. As a vocational counselor, I emphasize transforming work into a calling, decisions about education, and coping with job-related stress and career transitions. As a couples therapist, I emphasize listening skills, conflict resolution, and cultivating patience, acceptance, honesty, and humor. As a marriage and family therapist my goal is to help couples grow more emotionally connected as they work through conflicts and impasses about sex, money, communication and life planning.