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

My Approach to Helping

Client centered with the client's needs in the forefront/ ethically based, spiritually focused as related to quality of life and the need to better understand the whole person; the client's history and its implication for personal growth and growth impediments; with the goals of personal awareness and rigorous self-honesty. The ultimate goal for the client is to assist the client to develop insight, awareness and cognitive/emotional/ behavioral strategies along with a wide range of other therapeutic strategies including hypnotherapy to identify and understand personal impediments and strengths that enhance and detract from the client's quality of life; integrationist, eclectic approaches (theoretical and therapeutic strategies) to fit the ever-changing needs of the client.

 

Services I Provide

• Individual Therapy & Counseling
• Marriage, Couples, or Relationship Counseling
• Family Therapy
• Mediation
• Clinical Supervision
• Home-Based Therapy

Ages I Work With

• Teens
• Adults
• Elders

Languages I Speak

• English

Groups I Work With

Ph.D.,in psychology, recognized by the college of psychologists to practice within the areas of clinical, counseling and forensic psychology. Working with middle years, adolescents, adults; individuals, couples and families. Authorized practice endorsement, allowed to provide diagnoses when necessary. Educated, in statistical analyses, mental testing and research methodology. In private practice for 16 years; as an integrationist with an eclectic style. A wide range of therapeutic and theoretical strategies including hypnotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy along with a wide range of other therapeutic strategies are utilzied within the therapeutic relationship to promote positive changes for the client in an effort to realize his/her potential for quality of life.

Therapy Approaches I Use

• Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy
• Adlerian Psychotherapy
• Anger Management
• Body-Mind Psychotherapy
• Breathwork
• Client-Directed Outcome-Informed Therapy
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy /REBT
• Coherence Therapy / Depth-Oriented Brief Therapy
• Collaborative Therapy / Collaborative Language Systems
• Conflict Resolution Therapy
• Constructivisim
• Contemplative Psychotherapy
• Critical Incidence Stress Debriefing
• Depth Therapy
• Depth-Oriented Brief Therapy
• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
• Dreamwork & Dream Analysis
• Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy
• Emotion Focused Couples Therapy
• Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy
• Energy Psychology
• Existential Psychotherapy
• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
• Family Constellations
• Family Systems Therapy
• Holistic Psychotherapy
• Humanistic Psychology
• Hypnotherapy
• Integral Psychotherapy
• Integration of different therapy models
• Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy
• Interpersonal Psychotherapy
• Journal Therapy
• Jungian Psychotherapy
• Motivational Enhancement Therapy
• Narrative Therapy
• Object Relations
• Person Centered / Rogerian
• Positive Psychology
• Positive Psychotherapy
• Psychodynamic
• Reality Therapy
• Relational Psychotherapy
• Self Acceptance Training
• Self Psychology
• Solution Focused Therapy
• Transpersonal Psychotherapy
• Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Concerns & Issues I Help With

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