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

My Approach to Helping

Are you longing for more fulfilling and meaningful relationships in different dimensions of your life - with yourself or your loved ones, your work or creative pursuits, with the natural world or the sacred? Are you facing a protracted difficulty, an overwhelming change, or a new dilemma you wish to work through in the confidence, trust and safety of psychotherapy?

I offer body-oriented Jungian psychotherapy and expressive arts therapist with individual adults and couples, weaving together depth psychology, psychodynamic psychotherapy, somatic awareness and, if desired, embodied dream work, movement, sand play, and creative expression as additional non-verbal imaginative languages of the soul.

I see psychotherapy as an experiential journey that draws on the natural healing forces within our being. The therapeutic relationship serves as the vessel in which inner wounds that previously had to be closed off can come to awareness and be transformed. Ways of acting, reacting and interacting that are no longer fulfilling can give way to the experience of a clearer sense of self and belonging, and to joyful unfolding. I believe that psychotherapy leads to a renewed sense of aliveness, well-being and meaning, to the growing ability for intimacy and joyful, creative engagement with self, others and the earth.

 

More Info About My Practice

I bring 20 years of experience and knowledge and an open, empathic and accepting presence to the therapeutic relationship, in which you can feel safe enough to explore all facets of your experience, your questions and difficulties, and undertake a therapeutic journey that leads to transformation, well-being and healing.

 

What I Love about Being a Psychotherapist

What makes me passionate about being a psychotherapist is the joy of seeing another grow and unfold and accompanying them on this journey. My image of healing is that our psyche or soul is like a river: It already knows how to flow; it already knows its own river-bed, its own path. As a psychotherapist I see where and how the river might, however, be blocked, or its flow hindered by obstacles that obstruct it like jammed logs. My task, then, is to "nudge" these logs - accompany my patient in sensing, feeling, experiencing what blocks her or him - so that the river of their life can resume its beautiful, vital movement.

 

Important Factors for Choosing a Therapist

The most important factor in choosing your psychotherapist is, I believe, your intuitively felt sense of a "click". In meeting a psychotherapist, does it feel like she or he is warm, empathic, personable, present? Do you feel seen, listened to? Do you feel a sense that you can trust this person to accompany you with non-judgmental openness? If so, chances are that you will feel held by the ensuing therapeutic relationship and safe enough to undertake the journey of psychotherapy, whether you are seeking help with a protracted difficulty, an overwhelming change, a new dilemma, or out of a deep desire for more fulfilling and meaningful relationships in different dimensions of your life - be it with yourself or your loved ones, your work or creative pursuits, with the natural world or the sacred.

Services I Provide

• Individual Therapy & Counseling
• Marriage, Couples, or Relationship Counseling
• Coaching
• Consultation
• Clinical Supervision

Ages I Work With

• Adults
• Elders

Languages I Speak

• English
• French
• German
• Italian

Groups I Work With

I work with individuals and couples who are coping with an overwhelming change, a protracted difficulty or a new dilemma, or who feel a deep desire for more fulfilling and meaningful relationships in different dimensions of their lives - with themselves, their loved ones, their work and creative pursuits, the natural world or the sacred. Some people I work with might find themselves in difficult life transitions, experience loss, grief or developmental turning points, anxiety or depression. I also work with cross cultural issues, with people longing to access their creative potential, or strengthen their sense of self and their spirituality. I also work with women and men in highly stressful leading professional positions, as well as with artists and couples of all sexual preferences and combinations.

Therapy Approaches I Use

• Art Therapy
• Authentic Movement
• Body-Mind Psychotherapy
• Creative Art Therapy
• Depth Therapy
• Depth-Oriented Brief Therapy
• Dreamwork & Dream Analysis
• Emotion Focused Couples Therapy
• Existential Psychotherapy
• Gestalt Therapy
• Guided Therapeutic Imagery
• Humanistic Psychology
• Integration of different therapy models
• Integrative Body Psychotherapy
• Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy
• Jungian Psychotherapy
• Mindfulness Based Approaches
• Positive Psychotherapy
• Psychodynamic
• Sand Tray / Sand Play Therapy
• Somatic Experiencing
• Somatic Psychotherapy
• Transpersonal Psychotherapy
• Yoga Therapy

Concerns & Issues I Help With

• Life Changes
• Anxiety, Fear, & Stress
• Emotion Management
• Occupational & Academic Issues
• Relationships & Marriage
• Social Skills & Problems
• Depression & Mood
• Family Problems
• Identity Issues
• Spirituality