While trained in multiple therapy modes, I focus on collaborative, interactive cognitive work to start and retain a deep change from negative thinking to clarity. What is in need of change, and why? What are steps that can create energy, courage, growth- without disruption? What is the right pace of change and are we on target? I see therapy as emotional "detective work" whose aim is freedom and satisfaction. Discovering possibilities and practicing changes, step by step, leads on to emotional recovery- and freedom, whether from anxiety, depression, relationship difficulty, low self-esteem, addiction, or underemployment. Support and direction could be called "the healing of the self', making stronger in a person that which was undeveloped, bringing forth potential that has been seen but unrealized, and reconstructing and freeing the ability to keep growing. Sometimes I can be a listener, sometimes a coach, emotional/life strategist, always the repository of a life story. In a first life, I was founder/owner of a successful business, from ground up to national distribution. This informs my current therapy work, whether with an entrepreneur in expansion, professional with career issue, or struggling artist. The combination of intense psychological training, art, and business deepen the care I offer.
Academic Suffixes: | LCSW |
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Expertise: | Addiction, Anxiety, Career Counseling, Codependency, Depression, Divorce, Grief, Other, Life Coaching, Life Transitions, Open Relationships Non-Monogamy, Relationship Issues, Self Esteem, Sleep or Insomnia, Veterans |