Whatever your specific problems or distress may be, there is good reason to be hopeful about being able to receive real help.


I say this based on my 14 years of professional experience helping people.  I've almost never encountered a situation that could not be improved at least somewhat, and I have worked with many people whose lives have improved dramatically. Good therapy works.


People sometimes want to know what kind of therapy I do, what theories I use, what techniques I employ. So here's a list of things that may or may not be either familiar or meaningful to you, in case it might be helpful:

Somatic Integration; cognitive/behavioral therapy; contemplative psychology and therapy; existential therapy; addictions counseling; anger management; couples counseling; transpersonal therapy; mindfulness; humanistic therapy; interpersonal and psychodynamic therapies; cognitive restructuring; communication and other skill building; self care development.


My approach to individual therapy is about healing, understanding, wisdom and growth. I assume that my clients have been hurt or injured psychologically, emotionally, and perhaps physically and spiritually as well. In some way or ways, trauma or damage has occurred, and it is this trauma or damage that needs to be attended to, re-balanced, and repaired. The result will be a making whole where there is now a rendering apart. I also work, significantly,  with helping people to understand the psycho-spiritual elements of their imbalance, and with understanding how they can alter these elements in the service of their healing and evolution.


In this healing process - I am not a practitioner of managed care style 5 session miracle therapy - skills will be developed, insights will be gained, used, and integrated, understanding will be enhanced, and the work of reclaiming/knowing the self will be done. The nature and critical importance of relationship will be explored and emphasized as a core necessity of this healing work. Most especially your relationship with yourself, and using the therapeutic relationship with me as a source of learning, experimentation, example, guidance and support.

In the words of a former professor of mine, it is in relationship that we are hurt, and it is, after all, in relationship that we are healed.


In couples therapy, while we will not ignore individual history and circumstances, the focus of the work will be on that third party which is all too often overlooked: the relationship. It is the needs of the relationship itself that will dictate the direction of therapy, and both parties will be supported and guided in the skills, insights, perspectives and changes needed to nourish, heal and grow that relationship in healthy and gratifying ways. Each of you will also be facilitated in knowing yourself more deeply.

Contemplative Psychotherapy

To read more about the contemplative/mindfulness based approach to therapy, here's a link to my Contemplative Psychotherapy web page.





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