I work collaboratively with diverse individuals, couples and families to create a treatment plan sensitive to their experiences and responsive to their goals. I have expertise and advanced training in the following areas:
- Family of Origin Patterns. Do you find yourself repeating unhelpful patterns but aren't sure how to "change the dance"? Let's create a step-by-step plan to forge more helpful patterns.
- Couple and Family Dynamics. It's easy to get into "stuck" patterns over time. I can help you find ways for each person to feel heard and understood, even when there is disagreement. When betrayal of trust and/or abuse are factors, we'll need to address these first. Safety overrides anything else.
- Parenting Concerns. You are the expert on your child. You are a good parent and want the best for your child. But remain concerned about your child's defiance, anxiety, desire to control, school struggles or difficulty getting along with others? I can help you find ways to discern the underlying emotions that are driving these difficult behaviors so you and your child can figure out solutions together.
- Estrangement Issues. Have you reached an impasse in an important relationship? Do you wear yourself out trying to figure out what went wrong or blaming yourself? I can help you discern any further steps you might want to take and process the complex emotions involved.
- Understanding and Healing Complex Trauma. I offer the integration of talk therapy with mind/body tools to address trauma. Talk therapy helps create a coherent, authentic narrative of what you've experienced; mind/bod tools help you manage intense emotions as they occur. The mind/body tools are effective for use on your own as needed outside of sessions.
- Processing Adoption Experiences and Creating Secure Attachment. I help adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive families find their own evolving "narrative" about these complex and life- changing experiences.
- Challenges of Aging. Let's explore your own experience of aging, along with your beliefs and assumptions about aging. Help me understand your current situation and needs. With respect for your current challenges, how might we find an evolving sense of belonging, purpose and hope for you going forward.
- Mind-Body Tools for Calming the Nervous System and Self-Regulation. Our bodies are the vessels that hold trauma, stress and struggle. I can teach you mind/body tools to disrupt the "ramping up cycle" and calm the parts of your brain that "fuel the fire".
