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

My Approach to Helping

After 25+ years as a Licensed Marriage, Family Therapist I have opened the first counseling center specializing in providing psychotherapy to adults and children by teams of professional psychotherapists with their animal partners. I believe in the therapeutic effect that animals can have in healing, and integrate interventions using the animals into traditional therapeutic work. In addition to working with adults and teenagers, I have developed Filial Pet Therapy, an approach that trains parents to use family pets to work with their children with a variety of concerns. I emphasize meeting your therapeutic goals in a cost-effective and timely manner.

 

More Info About My Practice

I believe in the creative power of healing, and that doing the difficult work of feeling better doesn’t always have to be difficult. Animals bring lightness and hope to the therapeutic process, facilitating the use of humor, creativity, openness, and release. Come meet me and my animal team and see. Research has demonstrated that therapeutic interaction with animals can: facilitate rapport and openness with children, teenagers, adults, seniors and couples; lower anxiety, stress and blood pressure; teach caring, gentleness and healthy boundaries to children; help develop attachment related receptivity; help mitigate anxiety, anger, loneliness, and depression and enhance self esteem.

Services I Provide

• Individual Therapy & Counseling
• Marriage, Couples, or Relationship Counseling
• Family Therapy
• Group Therapy
• Coaching
• Consultation
• Clinical Supervision
• Residential Treatment or Hospitilization
• Home-Based Therapy
• Other

Ages I Work With

• Children
• Teens
• Adults
• Elders

Languages I Speak

• English

Groups I Work With

We specialize in working with children, teenagers and adults who would like to realize the benefits of psychotherapy with the assistance of animals (Animal Assisted Therapy). Our therapists specialize in areas such as: abuse/trauma, autism, PTSD, depression & anxiety, behavioral problems (children & teens). Some of the specific areas we work with are: Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome and other Autistic Spectrum disorders, Attachment Issues, Divorce Recovery, Anxiety, Depression, Posttraumatic Stress, Women’s Issues, Couples and Relationship Problems, Family Counseling, Grief and Loss, ADHD, Parent-Child conflicts, Substance Abuse, Abuse and Trauma, Parenting, Adjustment Problems, Child and Adolescent Behavioral concerns and Personal Growth and Development.

Therapy Approaches I Use

• Art Therapy
• Client-Directed Outcome-Informed Therapy
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy /REBT
• Constructivisim
• Equine & Animal Assisted Psychotherapies
• Existential Psychotherapy
• Filial Therapy
• Humanistic Psychology
• Imago Relationship Therapy
• Integration of different therapy models
• Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy
• Object Relations
• Parent Work
• Play Therapy
• Positive Psychology
• Positive Psychotherapy
• Psychodynamic
• Self Psychology
• Systems Theory /Therapy

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My Blog Posts

• Ten Ways Your Pets Can Improve Your Family’s Mental Health

Concerns & Issues I Help With

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