My Approach 

I view my role as a guide to help you move from feeling lost and struggling to finding your way with clarity, purpose, meaning, and ease.

38-plus years of working with children, adolescents, adults, couples, families, groups, and organizations have taught me a lot about the potential for healing that lives in each of us.

I have devoted my professional life to helping people reduce their suffering and struggle while empowering them to claim their strengths, talents, and their unique abilities to live a more fulfilling and rich life.

Since 1985, I have specialized in treating trauma and dissociation, focusing on healing from trauma and nourishing post-traumatic growth. Traumatic activation lives on in the body and can affect nearly all aspects of our life; our self-esteem, ability to connect with others, energy level, tension level, emotions, perceptions, thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors.

This traumatically-induced chronic nervous system dysregulation is the source of most pain and struggle. Trauma therapy must address this bodily dysregulation and the defensive states that hijack our awareness and energy. This includes learning how to access and live from our strengths, our ability to connect, and a sense of wholeness while overcoming the fears, resentments, limiting beliefs, and harsh inner judgment perpetuating our suffering.

Over the last almost 4 decades, my approach has evolved, as has our understanding of how trauma impacts the brain and body. I integrate traditional psychotherapy, Somatic psychotherapy, Polyvagal-informed practices, and mindful awareness, along with the latest advances in neuroscience and mind/body approaches to address the whole person in a powerful, effective, and compassionate manner.