Psychotherapy, Counseling Psychology, Marriage & Family Therapy
License Status:
I'm a licensed professional.
Licensing Info:
Illinois State license
License Type:
LPC
License Number:
178.01
My Approach to Helping
Depth therapy aims to understand and satisfy your symptom's "requirement." There is a profound honoring of the wisdom of the symptom instead of viewing it as pathology. Symptoms always symbolically point to precisely to what is needed in the soul's passionate search for wholeness. My clients are surprised and relieved to learn how symptoms are invariably concerned with helping us acquire something that the soul desperately needs in order to recover its wholeness, balance and vitality. The bulk of the therapeutic work, then, consists in learning to be comfortable (present) with thoughts and feelings that could previously not be comfortably or safely endured. This involves the development of inner strength (personal power) through the support of a therapist who is an ally.
More Info About My Practice
A large part of my practice consists in the work of Integrative Body Psychotherapy. IBP is a body-centered (somatic) therapy in which you and the therapist monitor your body's stress-holding patterns during a series of light breathing/movement exercises. The client is led to become conscious of internal body sensations that result from the effort. Clients are encouraged to verbalize their emotional response to the physical stress, and are then coached to release those body segments which have tensed up during the exercise. These physical areas of stress and muscular holding correspond unerringly to habitual and ingrained patterns of emotional defense (reactivity with a blocked awareness) which, once identified cognitively, can be released from the body effectively and permanently.
Services I Provide
Individual Therapy & Counseling
Marriage, Couples, or Relationship Counseling
Group Therapy
Distance or Phone Therapy
Ages I Work With
Children
Teens
Adults
Elders
Languages I Speak
English
French
Lithuanian
Spanish
Groups I Work With
I work with individuals who want to enhance their personal power. My clients are those who have a healthy curiosity about the part they may have played---unconsciously---in the development of the circumstances that cause their suffering. My work is particularly effective with people who have undergone analysis, who have long understood their part, but wonder why that knowledge has been insufficient to bring about deep and lasting change in their behavior and in their life. Those who are committed to the practice of presence, and who are interested in learning consciousness technologies will be taught techniques, whereby their capacity to maintain personal composure under heightened excitement or stress is continually enhanced. The applications are endless: powerful presence is integral in resolving conflicts effectively, presenting well at job interviews, surmounting phobias, enhancing concentration, overcoming fear and anger, boosting courage, negotiating level-headedly, eliminating racing thoughts, presenting engagingly, romancing intrepidly, sustaining arousal... Just imagine the possibilities.
Therapy Approaches I Use
Body-Mind Psychotherapy
Body Psychotherapy
Breathwork
Depth-Oriented Brief Therapy
Depth Therapy
Dreamwork & Dream Analysis
Energy Psychology
Guided Therapeutic Imagery
Holistic Psychotherapy
Integrative Body Psychotherapy
Mindfulness Based Approaches
Psychodynamic
Integration of different therapy models
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