Please know that I am here to be present with you and to listen to you with loving acceptance. My therapeutic process is a client-centered one: Your life questions/issues lead the way and I support you in your exploration of how to work and play with your questions/issues. Occasionally I might share a relevant personal story or an inspired insight; please know that the intention of my sharing is to connect with your experience at a deep level and to encourage you in enhancing your self-awareness, thus broadening your understanding, and thereby making meaning of your life with a balance of calm clarity and passionate purposefulness.

Since I will not negatively judge you or criticize you for what you think, how you feel, or how you act, you will be in a safe and secure space to explore whatever comes up for you. I will encourage you to feel free to have fun and be serious (all in balance!) with your self-exploration. Know that I am here for you to be a compassionate witness and supporter of your healing.

We will work together on looking at your whole self— mind/body/spirit/emotions/heart, past/present/future, loved/unloved, hidden/revealed, male/female, and so forth. We will not take parts of you out of their context. When we take parts of ourselves out of context, there are many losses; namely, a loss of integration, a loss of understanding, a loss of meaning, a loss of connection, a loss of belonging, a loss of power, and a loss of love among other losses. All these losses can be quite disintegrative and elicit painful experiences of abandonment, rejection, fragmentation, depression, loneliness, and ungroundedness.

My healing services are both integrated and integrative. They represent several different traditions and work in harmony with one another to support you as restore yourself to your natural state of peace, love, health, wholeness and integration. Some of the activities/methods/tools/processes/systems that we will work and play with together during a session may include: personal/values inventories, goal setting, creating conscious intentions, positive affirmations, visualization, cognitive restructuring, communication coaching, dream work/interpretation, self-observation, self-inquiry, journaling, family systems/dynamics analysis, forgiveness/gratitude work, projective and objective self-assessments, archetypes, art therapy/creative expression, bibliotherapy, yoga therapy, meditation/centering, authentic movement, numerology, astrology (western and eastern), feng shui, enneagram, working with your shadow, divination, elemental rituals, Reiki healing, and chakra reading/clearing.

My treatment model acknowledges the importance of looking at the causes and the effects of your current condition. I will suggest and we will employ appropriate technical interventions to treat the temporary effects of your condition. We will also explore the possible causes of your condition so that you can go to the root of the issue and begin the long lasting process of transformational change and healing. Another way to look at the difference between cause and effect is to distinguish between a cure (temporary) and a healing (permanent). While curing is remedial in nature and involves “fixing” an external problem, healing is more “enriching” and internally oriented, with the intention to firmly establish self-love and healthy relationships with others. A cure treats a symptom, an effect of your condition and does little to heal the underlying problem. For example, you may put ointment on a rash caused by contacting poison oak. A healing treats the cause that gave birth to the effect. Following the same example, you may choose not to revisit the place in which you came into contact with the poison oak as well as wash all the clothes you wore when you were there. What good is putting on ointment if you keep poisoning yourself by wearing the same clothes and visiting the site of the poisoning over and over again? Think about this example metaphorically…