Therapist Profile

My Approach to Helping

I specialize in marriage and couples counseling. In most cases a couple's dialogue has broken down and they argue rather than discuss issues. This only makes the situation worse. I teach couples techniques of respectful and effective communicating. Effective communication makes it possible to problem solve differences and reach a resolution.

I also provide Divorce Mediation Services. After much soul searching, a married couple realizes that they have irreconcilable differences. They want to negotiate a low-conflict, low cost divorce. I guide the couple through the issues in dissolution of a marriage and help them file the papers as "pro se" plaintiff and defendant. This process models negotiation rather than adversarial conflict and sets the stage for cooperative co-parenting of their children. This is enormously beneficial to the children of divorcing parents.

More Info About My Practice

"Know Thyself" said the ancient Greeks. My job as therapist is to help my clients gain knowledge and insight into their feelings and behavior. My observation is that each individual has deep reserves of creativity, resiliency and life experience.

Clients come to therapy with troubling patterns of self-defeating behavior or missed steps in their emotional development, or patterns of interaction that they are only partially aware of.

My job is to bring these patterns to awareness, analyze the family of origin roots of the behavior and help the client invent, create, and experiment with new, more workable solutions. This involves deep introspection into one's thoughts and feelings, but also practical behavioral change. Even small changes make a huge difference over the course of a lifetime.