My Approach:

In 35 years as a psychologist, I’ve been fortunate to help many individuals, couples and families through challenging moments in their lives. I’ve come to appreciate the myriad ways my clients draw on their strengths to face adversity and grow through it. Through our creative collaboration, they understand themselves more deeply and take positive steps toward achieving their goals. In the context of a trusting, collaborative relationship, I am active and interactive, asking thought-provoking questions, listening carefully, reflecting, making suggestions and providing support.
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My work is informed by psychodynamic and psychospiritual principles. I seek to understand how my clients have been influenced by their life experience and early primary relationships. I also seek to understand their values and how they find meaning in their lives. This provides the larger life context for understanding the specific issues they choose to work on with me.

I also utilize experiential techniques that catalyze rapid transformation and personal growth, such as hypnotherapy, biofeedback, neurofeedback, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-i), mindfulness, and mind-body movement, breathing, and meditative practices. These evidence-based techniques tap into our innate capacity to learn and create new patterns of thinking, feeling and behavior.