About
Therapy is about YOU.
Improving the quality of your life, finding relief from emotional pain, and improving strained relationships.
It’s about sharing your story with someone who will not only listen, but really get it and provide support, guidance, and expertise in your healing and growing.
People are looking for a therapist who can make them feel safe and understood while also being effective in helping them with their challenges.
Finding a therapist can be difficult, and many people don’t follow through.
It takes courage to step into therapy.
It’s not easy being vulnerable with a total stranger. Where you reveal inner struggles that you may not have even told to your closest friends.
I know how it is to want to find a solid and competent therapist that you feel you can trust. People who see me will attest that they feel incredibly safe with me.
They feel they can relax with who I am as a compassionate person with a level of expertise that is exceptional.
People who I’ve seen have tended to make real progress towards lasting change, sometimes from the very first session.
Don’t hesitate to call me if you feel that I might be able to help, or at least, I can point you in a direction where you can get help.
About Me
My passion for both understanding people and helping them has led me to the work I’ve done for most of my adult life, with 20 years in the field of psychotherapy.
My compassionate heart and inquiring mind are well-developed, like muscles on a professional athlete.
I’ve worked with a variety of people over the past four decades, including professional adults, homeless people, distraught couples, parents, teens who have been in trouble, people who have addictions, elderly people, children, men’s groups, people serving in the military and their families, developmentally disabled people, and autistic children.
I love how each person brings a most wonderful puzzle of who they really are, what’s holding them back, and how they can best flourish in their lives.
My work is to not judge you, nor to even see your “problem” as something that’s bad. In fact, often, a person’s “problem” has served an important purpose in helping them through difficult times. In this way, I really like what Carl Jung said, “We cannot change anything unless we accept it.”
I’ve provided trainings in multiple locations around the US on effective tools to help people thrive; skills such as empathic listening, conflict process, emotional bonding (also called “attachment”), and effective techniques for parenting and child raising.
I work with a variety of approaches depending on the need, including Solution Focused, Cognitive Behavioral, Depth-Jungian, Family Systems, Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples and others.
Always looking to improve my skills, I’ve been working more recently with pioneers of new breakthroughs in the field of therapy, called Coherence Therapy, which has brought invaluable improvements in my work to help people experience transformational change.
Having been in a long-term marriage of 22 years and raised two healthy and thriving daughters who are now in their twenties, I’m most grateful. I’m a multi-instrumental musician, a student of the inner world and of cross-cultural spirituality. I live a life of curiosity, exploration, and wonder.