areas of expertise

• Adolescents
• Anger Management
• Anxiety
• Body Image
• Couples Counseling
• Depression
• Drug & Alcohol Dependence
• Eating Disorder
• Family Counseling
• Group Therapy
• Issues of Self-Esteem
• Psychothreapy Training
• Sexual Trauma

therapy modalities

• Mindfulness
• Gestalt Therapy
• Bioenergetic Analysis
• Body Process and Somatic Reality
• Satir Communcation Theory
• Personal Totem Pole Process
• Ceremony and Sprituality
• Environmental Consiousness

statement of belief

The decision to seek therapy involves a desire to heal a basic alienation from self. We come into the world as babies fully alive and one with our selves and our spirits. Many forces at work in our culture and famlies split us from our basic selves. We form protective shields, or defense mechanisms in our bodies helping us to survive. Later, we often feel bad or guilty about these ways we learned to cope.

about body-centered gestalt therapy

This is a process of discovering what happened in our childhoods that caused each of us to form our own personalities and become alienated from our core selves. By trusting the wisdom of our bodies, supporting our experience, and reconnecting with spirit we can come to appreciate how we survived our earliest years. We become aware of how our childhood survival mechanisms shaped our adult personalities.
 

the essence of therapy is the reclaiming our humanness: Our aliveness, our power, and our spirit.