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

My Approach to Helping

I help folks target their difficulties that are in the way of living the life that matters to them, identify and utilize personal strengths to support progress towards a balanced and satisfying life and more gracefully and confidently cope with what is. Examples: inner peace, outer competent assertiveness, satisfying relationships with loved ones, coworkers, community, learning how to better regulate emotion or attention, experimenting with new approaches to old problems. Together, we collaborate towards health, tailored to your needs, guided by my experience, and adjusted within the feedback of therapy. In practice since 1979, I work with folks of all ages and w/most problems. My approach is collaborative and informed by your needs, challenges and strengths. I enjoy long-term depth psychotherapy as well as short-term problem solving therapy. I work with parents, couples, families and, of course, individuals. I have extensive training, including interpersonal/object relations, systems theory, cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT, mindfulness/spiritual, hypnotherapy, psychoneurological/biochemical, AD/HD, attachment & narrative therapies.

 

More Info About My Practice

Parenting, intimacy, communication, self-regulation, AD/HD & learning differences, effects of childhood abuse in childhood, special education challenges, anxiety & depression, and sexuality are common reasons people work with me. I'm a CHADD (AD/HD) Volunteer Teacher/Group Facilitator and Volunteer Clinical Supervisor for non-profits. Prior Experience: School Counselor (K-12); Director of Counseling: women's health organization; Trainer: couple/family therapy; Counselor: child sexual abuse treatment program; Trainer/Consultant for nonprofit & for-profit organizations; President: Association of Family Therapists of Northern California, 1990-92; President: Marin Child Abuse Council, 1992-94

Services I Provide

• Individual Therapy & Counseling
• Marriage, Couples, or Relationship Counseling
• Family Therapy
• Coaching
• Consultation
• Clinical Supervision
• Online Counseling / Phone Therapy

Ages I Work With

• Children
• Teens
• Adults
• Elders

Languages I Speak

• English

Therapy Approaches I Use

• Anger Management
• Body-Mind Psychotherapy
• Client-Directed Outcome-Informed Therapy
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy /REBT
• Collaborative Therapy / Collaborative Language Systems
• Contemplative Psychotherapy
• Depth Hypnosis
• Depth Therapy
• Depth-Oriented Brief Therapy
• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
• Emotion Focused Couples Therapy
• Existential Psychotherapy
• Family Attachment Narrative Therapy
• Family Systems Therapy
• Feminist Therapy
• Gestalt Therapy
• Gottman Method
• Humanistic Psychology
• Hypnotherapy
• Integration of different therapy models
• Interpersonal Neurobiology
• Interpersonal Psychotherapy
• Logotherapy
• Mindfulness Based Approaches
• Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy
• Narrative Therapy
• Non-Violent Communication
• Object Relations
• Parent Work
• Parent-Child Interaction Therapy
• Psychodynamic
• Relational Psychotherapy
• Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy
• Solution Focused Therapy
• Systems Theory /Therapy
• Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Concerns & Issues I Help With

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