I work with individuals, couples, and families on a wide range of life problems and issues.
I have a general psychological practice, as well as having many specialty areas of training.
My Approach
My training and experience has helped me to recognize the internal issues and behavioral patterns that can lead to feeling stuck or unsatisfied with yourself, your relationships, and in career or other life pursuits.
It is my role to provide a facilitating environment where you can safely explore and work through the relevant issues involving yourself and your relationships.
I treat primarily adults and adolescents who tend to vary with regard to age, stage of life, cultural background. I also treat couples and families. Many of the people I see have achieved a degree of success, but remain unsatisfied with some aspect of their life. In spite of that success, they may experience self-esteem issues, battle anxiety or depression, struggle with an addiction, or in their relationships. Some feel unsatisfied with work life. They want to make a change or move to the next level in their career.
Services offered include:
Psychologist
Helping Individuals with:
anxiety and/or depression
traumatic stress (abuse history)
addictions of many types
relationship and/or family issues
divorce, separation or relationship transition
feeling chronically angry; anger problems
shame; self-esteem difficulties
body image issues; relationship to food
work life and career issues
loss and grief
loneliness; social isolation or social anxiety
issues with regard to aging
creative blocks
negative communication patterns
trust issues, perhaps because of infidelity and/or jealousy
Trauma-Informed Specialization
Trauma experiences can disrupt your daily life and functioning. Specialized trauma-informed therapy can be beneficial in addressing the many resultant effects of trauma.
Helping individuals & Families with:
early childhood trauma, abuse or neglect
sexual abuse or assault
medical trauma
emotional or psychological abuse
domestic violence
injuries, including traumatic brain injury (TBI)
witnessing trauma or secondary trauma
assault or attack
combat-related trauma
accidents
disasters (natural or man-made)
Certified EMDR Practitioner
What is EMDR Therapy? Learn More
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is a form of psychotherapy developed to help people resolve symptoms resulting from disturbing and unresolved life experiences. It uses a structured approach to address past, present, and future aspects of disturbing memories. EMDR helps the brain reprocess these traumatic memories, alleviating the resulting emotional and psychological negative effects, including PTSD, anxiety, phobias, depression attachment disorders etc.
I have been using EMDR successfully with adults, adolescents and couples for the past 30 years.