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I specialize in seeing adults of all ages, and also see older adolescents, individually or as couples. Through both training
and experience I am experienced with a wide range of issues and people.
Because I seek the best for my clients, I do
not hesitate to discuss alternative counseling approaches when they exist. I will suggest referrals for my clients to other
professionals if they need additional help or if we are not progressing in a way that is beneficial to them.
~Here are some of the issues for which clients seek me out. Included are some ways in which we may address these struggles
(very simplified here!).
• Major life changes/decisions~ addressed through: Mobilizing, planning, and acting.
• Illness--chronic or acute~ addressed through: Rethinking one’s purpose.
• Interpersonal relationship
difficulty & pain~ addressed through: Flexing for closeness, drift, and distance.
• Attunement and intimacy~
addressed through: Seeking a deeper joining capacity of spirit and self.
• Loss, grief, sorrow~ addressed through:
Nurturing the soul into strength.
• Stress, stress, stress~ addressed through: Balancing or adapting to the “unbalanceable”.
• Alienation, emptiness, disconnectedness~ addressed through: Finding meaning, belonging, and worth.
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No sense of direction ~ addressed through: Mapping old and new paths.
• Emotional intensity, instability, or mutedness~
addressed through: Inventing dialogues with depression, anxiety, anger, etc.
• Living in the past~ addressed through:
Healing toward rewriting one’s present and future (trauma/abuse etc).
• Out-of-control experiences~ addressed
through: Finding freedom from obsessions, compulsions, and addictions etc.
• Unfair prejudice ~ addressed through:
Defining oneself truthfully, holding firm, and pressing forward.
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~How I Came to Do What I Do
My “training”
probably started as far back as when I had my first realization of being an individual self. All of my experiences coming
face to face with life --the tumults this has often brought, my inner conflicts, losses, heartaches, and also my perseverance,
my growth through movement in relationships, closeness and intimacy, my joys and pleasures, and my attempt always to understand
the world and it's effect on each and all of us, and our effect on it—all this has become woven into the person I have
become, and the therapist I have become. All of these experiences have blended to contribute in me an affinity for compassion,
empathy, and insight.
Formal education and training in the field of clinical psychology, along with, now, many
years of engaging with clients, has all intertwined to help shape who I was and now am as a person and a therapist. Growing
as a therapist goes along with growing as a person.
From the beginning I always felt it a privilege
to sit with my clients through emotionally and intellectually deep intimate hours. I have seen them open themselves to searing
honesty so as to better understand their lives. They have invited me, often with great courage, to enter their private worlds
so as to probe for new perspectives and options.
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