Approaches

For many of my clients, the psychotherapy process begins with learning new ways to reduce stress, compulsive habits and/or chronic pain through mindfulness meditation and related body-mind (PNI*) practices.

In the case of trauma survivors, Somatic Experiencing® method guides my work: helping to create a safe container in order for you to resolve recurring themes and experience connectedness on an embodied level. This may result in healing your physical and emotional symptoms, perhaps inclusive of depression and anxiety.

Ultimately, I work from a depth psychological perspective. This calls for a commitment to the process itself: for both therapist and client to stay engaged in an intensive therapeutic alliance over time. Understanding the nature of the relationship that unfolds between you and myself as therapist often clarifies primary relationship issues in your life. Similarly, historic roots of destructive life reenactments may be discovered in psychodynamic patterns.

At the same time, I recognize the need to view you, as an individual, within a systems context, inclusive of your family or couples relationship, as well as that of your cultural heritage.

My approach to helping couples attends to the interaction between partners' differentiation and their intimacy, as well as questions of spiritual connectedness within the dyad. I feel passionately about the need for this kind of work.

Finally, I enjoy working with individuals around issues of consciousness transformation and crises of spiritual emergence.

If any of this resonates, I would welcome your phone call.

* PNI refers to interaction between psychological processes and nervous/immune systems of the body.