Life changes: Discover, then recover from
unresolved issues in your life

My approach:

I integrate body, mind and spirit into the therapeutic process. The techniques I use include traditional counseling skills, relationship therapy, creative visualization, body energetics, Ericksonian Hypnosis, Transpersonal Counseling, and Energy Psychology; these are integrated with a highly developed intuition. I work in a short-term, educational modality and teach the self-care tools of the new power psychotherapies.

I help people to:

The Benefits

My clients gain the awareness and skills to empower themselves and eliminate disruptive symptoms. They learn how to stop blaming themselves, others, and God; ask for what they need and want; set limits with others; and create and accomplish personally meaningful goals. They learn how to believe in themselves.

Areas of expertise

Case Presentations:

During on-going treatment for depression, Susan realized that she feared and resisted her husband's nurturing behavior. It was difficult to let him nurture her even though she wanted him to do so. She feared becoming fragile and smothered. She felt anxious and had difficulty breathing when he approached her; consequently, he responded with more and more distance. We applied the BSFF energy psychology technique, focusing on her fear of him nurturing her. Her homework was to focus on being in the present moment when he nurtured her, not reflect upon past conflict or resentments. She thought she could feel safe if she did not bring the past into a moment of intimate sharing. Also, if she felt comfortable, she would ask him to hug her. I asked her to be aware of any feelings, thoughts, or fantasies that came up to prevent her from feeling emotionally and physically intimate with him. In the next session, she reported that she was able to ask him for hugs and she felt comfortable being close to him physically. Two months later she reports feeling available when he nurtures her.

Brian was suffering from liver cancer. Our holistic treatment plan incorporated changing his negative, critical thoughts and beliefs, freeing himself of anger and resentments, transforming significant relationships in his life, changing his diet, and incorporating a Higher Power in the healing process. Not an easy task, but he faced the challenge with the same courage and conviction with which he lived his life. He was committed to living. A high point in the treatment process was the day he felt his Higher Power firmly connected to his body; doubt of immortality vanished that day. A low point occurred the day I sounded like a parent scolding him for not taking his diet seriously. Throughout the journey we laughed and cried together. He joined a cancer support group and mended family relationships. The barriers of isolation and self-sufficiency came down slowly.

Inner healing was occurring; however, the cancer progressed. Three weeks before his death we talked about letting go and letting God take over the healing process. We talked about receiving that miraculous physical cure or being lifted into the realm of his Higher Power. He surrendered his life to his Inner Healer. He had done all the work he could do in this lifetime to heal himself; the rest was in the hands of a Power greater than himself. After several weeks of moderate discomfort, he was lifted into the realm of Spirit. The long-term physical suffering and deterioration he feared did not occur. His journey with cancer lasted 1½ years. When he died, he was at peace with himself and his life.