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

My Approach to Helping

Many of us have had little experience with the kind of truly supportive relationships that make healing possible. A good therapeutic relationship, one that allows us to be fully ourselves while recognizing our unique potential, creates the optimal conditions for healing. I provide a place where you can feel safe, and your most difficult feelings can be explored. My approach is especially helpful when you want to resolve grief and loss, heal childhood wounds, relieve depression and anxiety, improve communication, increase self esteem and develop more satisfying relationships. I work with individuals, couples, groups, and children using a relational gestalt therapy approach. I've practiced for 20 years, as an art therapist, as the director of a number of outpatient mental health centers, and in private practice. I am a former President of the Gestalt Therapy Institute of Los Angeles, a Certified Gestalt Therapist and a faculty assistant at Pacific Gestalt Institute.

 

Services I Provide

• Individual Therapy & Counseling
• Marriage, Couples, or Relationship Counseling
• Family Therapy
• Group Therapy
• Consultation
• Clinical Supervision

Ages I Work With

• Children
• Teens
• Adults
• Elders

Languages I Speak

• English

Groups I Work With

Individuals, couples, groups, children and families, dealing with grief and loss, anxiety, depression, relationship and communication issues, chronic illness, childhood abuse, parenting, play and art therapy.

Therapy Approaches I Use

• Anger Management
• Art Therapy
• Body-Mind Psychotherapy
• Breathwork
• Creative Art Therapy
• Depth Therapy
• Emotion Focused Couples Therapy
• Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy
• Existential Psychotherapy
• Focusing
• Gestalt Therapy
• Guided Therapeutic Imagery
• Humanistic Psychology
• Integration of different therapy models
• Interpersonal Psychotherapy
• Mindfulness Based Approaches
• Parent Work
• Parent-Child Interaction Therapy
• Person Centered / Rogerian
• Play Therapy
• Psychodynamic
• Relational Psychotherapy
• Self Psychology

Concerns & Issues I Help With

• Identity Issues
• Attachment
• Reproduction
• Abuse: Emotional, Physical, or Sexual
• Trauma
• Occupational & Academic Issues
• Life Changes
• Social Skills & Problems
• Health & Body
• Anxiety, Fear, & Stress
• Emotion Management
• Depression & Mood
• Family Problems
• Childhood & Adolescence
• Relationships & Marriage
• Self-Esteem & Confidence
• Sexuality
• Spirituality
• Self-Harm & Suicide