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

My Approach to Helping

My job as your helper/coach/therapist is to win you a place on the Personal Happiness Olympic Team, and perhaps win you a gold. To use most effectively our individual experiences, skills, strengths and resources for the creation of personal and interpersonal happiness, we need to know ourselves more intimately. I believe in strengthening and polishing the already effective strategies you have learned. I will also suggest small experiments designed to introduce and practice new, solution-oriented skills, new ways of thinking, speaking and acting to help you reach your goals. If you are open to learning compassionate communication, meditation, self-hypnosis, cognitive transformation, breathing techniques, and other psychomotor skills, I have the training and experience to make them a joygiving part of your life. If desired by a client who feels ready, I create a safe space for the healthy expression and healing of long-buried emotional needs.
I am also particularly skilled and comfortable with phone therapy.
Decades of practice, as well as writing and directing plays and films, make me uniquely skilled in helping clients discover new sources of energy to fan the flames of their dreams, and to lead lives of joy, compassion and creativity.

 

Services I Provide

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

Ages I Work With

• Teens
• Adults
• Elders

Languages I Speak

• English

Groups I Work With

Couples, families, troubled teens, substance abusers, court or probation-officer mandated anger management clients.

Therapy Approaches I Use

• Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy
• Anger Management
• Bioenergetic Analysis
• Body Psychotherapy
• Body-Mind Psychotherapy
• Breathwork
• Client-Directed Outcome-Informed Therapy
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy /REBT
• Coherence Therapy / Depth-Oriented Brief Therapy
• Core Energetics
• Critical Incidence Stress Debriefing
• Depth-Oriented Brief Therapy
• Emotion Focused Couples Therapy
• Emotional Transformation Therapy
• Existential Psychotherapy
• Family Systems Therapy
• Focusing
• Guided Therapeutic Imagery
• Hakomi
• Hypnotherapy
• Imago Relationship Therapy
• Integration of different therapy models
• Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy
• Internal Family Systems
• Logotherapy
• Mindfulness Based Approaches
• Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy
• Parent-Child Interaction Therapy
• Person Centered / Rogerian
• Psychomotor
• Reality Therapy
• Relationship Enhancement Therapy
• Solution Focused Therapy
• Systems Theory /Therapy
• Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Concerns & Issues I Help With

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