I work extensively with adults, couples, teens, university students, and with the LGBT community. I have had the good fortune to also assist survivors of political torture overcome trauma and adjust to life in a new culture. I work effectively with clients undergoing a variety of difficulties-mood and anxiety disorders, relationship and communication challenges, drug and alcohol abuse, procrastination, test anxiety, and with unhealthy, conflicted relationships to food. I have been a meditation practitioner for nearly 20 years and have found mindfulness and hypnotic approaches beneficial adjuncts to traditional psychotherapy.
I approach psychotherapy from a dynamic, integrative perspective, looking at the person within the interface of social, cultural, familial, biological, and spiritual domains. Individuals present moment possibilities are impacted by the past and we can both learn from and experience new ways of being in a therapeutic relationship.
Sometimes it is necessary to explore the way we carry our past forward, especially when we find ourselves feeling and acting in habitual ways that may have once served a protective function, but presently constricts life in terms of how we relate to ourselves and other people.