05/01/2015
Practice Approaches/Areas of Specialization
I have an interactive style blending warmth, compassion, attentiveness, and humor. I am humanistic while also being realistic. “Chat therapy” does not seem to help many people, although being able to listen carefully is important to me. I see myself as a guide, a resource, a sort of person who helps you uncover and develop who you are and what you need for your own fulfillment.
Since I enjoy receiving training in a variety of disciplines and approaches, I am an eclectic practitioner. At times a more body-centered approach is what is needed depending on a person’s individualized concerns. Other times a more cognitive, behavioral, educational, or spiritual approach is more appropriate. I emphasize tailoring therapy to each individual.
I believe that paying attention to one’s bodily-felt awareness is important, developing the “observer” or “witness” in oneself. I also believe in learning to enjoy the life-long process of differentiation (self-soothing), so that one can balance independence or autonomy with intimacy or relationship.
Since 1992 in private practice, I’ve helped people from different economic, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds on a variety of issues. The following list details some of the many issues I’ve worked with successfully with clients:
Intimacy Issues and Relationship Counseling, including premarital, marriage counseling, dating, separation, communication, s*xuality, boundaries, boring s*x, power struggles, bereavement, and indifference.
Emotional Issues related to anxiety, depression, grief and loss issues, phobias, post traumatic stress disorder, anger management/release without destructiveness, and self-esteem.
Personality Issues and the Enneagram, including understanding one’s habits from the past which allows for increasing choices in the present and in the future, which can lessen one’s suffering. The Enneagram is one theory among many beneficial for understanding other people as they are to themselves.
Family Counseling including issues of parenting, abuse, aging parents, single parenting, substance abuse, blended families, in-law arguments, teenage problems.
Stress Management including breathing techniques for tolerating aliveness while grounding in the body, relaxation breathing, meditation instruction.
Sexual Problems including s*xual anxiety and premature ej*******on.
Men’s Issues including anger management and release without destructiveness, low self-esteem, mid-life crisis, career questions, emotionally withdrawing, financial/legal issues, intimacy fears, fathering issues, and isolation.
Employment Issues including coping with stress, unemployment, values clarification for career change, displacement, and workaholism.
