Helping People Find Therapists & Advocating for Ethical and Healthy Therapy & Marriage Counseling Practices

My Approach to Helping

As a Somatic Counselor, I draw on an understanding of how our thoughts and emotions are profoundly intertwined with our physiology. Using a family systems and communications lens from 10+ years as a counselor and language educator(3yrs to 70 yrs), I provide counseling for individuals, partners, and children that integrates the whole brain. With both verbal and nonverbal experiential methods, we may first - verbally map experience, compassionately developing awareness of behavior patterns, and then - nonverbally explore what is "known" just beneath the surface through structured experiential activities. Clients are always free to choose, and the range of experiential methods includes: Expressive Therapies (SandPlay, Play Therapy for children, Hakomi Experiential Therapy, & Family Constellation work), PSYCH-K core belief work, and EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing) for life event recovery. As painful personal events or physical healing challenges can cause us to contract or react, discovering underlying patterns and developing alternatives can create an opening - which is especially valuable when available responses have become limited.

 

Services I Provide

• Individual Therapy & Counseling
• Marriage, Couples, or Relationship Counseling
• Family Therapy

Ages I Work With

• Children
• Teens
• Adults

Languages I Speak

• English
• Spanish

Groups I Work With

Chronic pain, sensory sensitivities, grief & loss, anger management, anxiety

Therapy Approaches I Use

• Anger Management
• Art Therapy
• Body Psychotherapy
• Body-Mind Psychotherapy
• Constructivisim
• Creative Art Therapy
• Existential Psychotherapy
• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
• Family Constellations
• Family Systems Therapy
• Filial Therapy
• Focusing
• Hakomi
• Humanistic Psychology
• Mindfulness Based Approaches
• Narrative Therapy
• Non-Violent Communication
• Person Centered / Rogerian
• Play Therapy
• Pragmatic / Experiential Therapy for Couples
• Sand Tray / Sand Play Therapy
• Somatic Psychotherapy
• Systems Theory /Therapy

Concerns & Issues I Help With

• Identity Issues
• Attachment
• Occupational & Academic Issues
• Life Changes
• Social Skills & Problems
• Emotion Management
• Anxiety, Fear, & Stress
• Health & Body
• Family Problems
• Childhood & Adolescence
• Relationships & Marriage
• Self-Esteem & Confidence