Clinical Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy, Social Work
License Status:
I'm a licensed professional.
License Type:
LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker -- Masters)
License Number:
149.01119
My Approach to Helping
I am practical and down-to-earth. I help explore the discomfort and difficulties being experienced in an affirming way. We explore resources and skills that may be beneficial to resolving the challenges. I offer feedback and ideas, point out behaviors that complicate progress, and notice possibilities. I am supportive and I focus on building skills to help my clients feel more self-sufficient and more connected to people who enhance their well-being. I have always understood that the quality of our lives is about the quality of our connections -- the current connections to other people and the historical connections that continue to echo in our hearts and minds. I have advanced training in couples counseling and 25 years of experience helping couples understand each other and become more conscious in the ways they relate to one another. I help couples evaluate the "state of affairs" and dedicate themselves to improvement or help them say good bye when that is the best direction. The counseling process can be uncomfortable so I work to make it an affirming process where we can sometimes laugh at the ironies of life, at the ways we and others behave and, hopefully, move forward with life in a way that feeds our soul and helps us be the best human being we can be.
Services I Provide
Individual Therapy & Counseling
Marriage, Couples, or Relationship Counseling
Family Therapy
Consultation
Clinical Supervision
Distance or Phone Therapy
Ages I Work With
Adults
Elders
Languages I Speak
English
Groups I Work With
Married Couples, Gay Couples, Lesbian Couples, Men, Women
Therapy Approaches I Use
Client-Directed Outcome-Informed Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy /REBT
Constructivisim
Contemplative Psychotherapy
Depth-Oriented Brief Therapy
Existential Psychotherapy
Family Attachment Narrative Therapy
Family Systems Therapy
Gottman Method
Humanistic Psychology
Imago Relationship Therapy
Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy
Interpersonal Psychotherapy
Jungian Psychotherapy
Narrative Therapy
Object Relations
Possibility Therapy
Psychodynamic
Reality Therapy
Relational Psychotherapy
Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy
Solution Focused Therapy
Integration of different therapy models
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