Assisting individuals, couples and families cope with and adjust to problems in living; providing body-centered psychotherapy for trauma resolution (Somatic Experiencing) and mindfulness-based skills to reduce symptoms of eating disorders, addictive impulses, depression and anxiety, and conditioned traumatic stress responses.

Treatment specialization includes:

• Trauma resolution to eliminate the effects of chronic stress responses
  

• Depression, anxiety and stress management
  

• Relationship problems (couples counseling, divorce counseling, co-dependency)
  

• Coping with chronic illness and chronic pain
  

• Grief and loss counseling; coping with life transitions
  

• Eating disorders (anorexia, bulimia, binge eating)
  

My philosophy is driven by a belief in your intrinsic dignity and wisdom. Together, we can collaboratively develop a process that will allow you to overcome any sense of helplessness and hopelessness, and help you find meaning and purpose to endure, and even thrive, regardless of your past experiences. You have the creative choice to change the meaning of your experiences and become a more effective agent of change in your life.

Human beings intuitively seek meaning and purpose. People suffer when they find no meaning, feel they lack purpose, or consider themselves powerless to change their conditions. Suffering is lessened when a person finds meaning, becomes aware of choices, and feels authentically connected to self, others and the world. 

There is hope. We have the creative choice to change our perceptions and re-write the story of our lives. The "story" of our lives can be revised to one of meaning. We have the choice to change the meaning of our experiences, past and present. We have the choice to change our thoughts and behaviors in the present moment to create a new reality for ourselves.

Through awareness, we can take responsibility for our choices and change. First, there has to be a willingness to seek awareness through the exploration of underlying choices made as a result of early traumatic life experiences. Through this exploration one can gain awareness of critical moments when decisions were made to think in certain ways and develop false negative beliefs about self, others, and the world.

Yet, freedom is just around the bend. In acknowledging that past pain, re-experiencing it safely, and integrating it, one can then release its hold on the present in order to purposefully change the choices made in that moment of crisis. One can then creatively choose new ideas and new behaviors, and give new meanings to past experiences. This in turn will change feelings, attitudes and perceptions. Some even go as far as stating it will change the shape of reality, creating shifts and re-arrangements before unimaginable to an imprisoned mind.