I work with individuals, couples and families with clients ranging from five years of age through the eighties and beyond. I believe that my continued awareness of developmental differences and continuity embedded in a culture that continues to change at a rapid rate facilitates my understanding of individuals and their dynamic relationships with loved ones, family, work relationships, and the fast paced technological age in which many are living.
Individuals who enter therapy with me present with depression, anxiety, PTSD, attention and/or other processing difficulties, relationship struggles, life transitions, and other sources of stress, as well as individuals challenged by blocks with creativity and productivity. In addition, I frequently work with musicians, actors and athletes utilizing clinical hypnosis for peak performance. I choose to focus on people's strengths and the importance of understanding how individuals' learning and behavioral styles can be channeled towards optimal adaptive functioning. People contact me with the purpose of resolving acute, short-term difficulties as well as for longer term, deeper work.
All of my work is guided by the value of assisting my clients to meet whatever their goals may be. Therefore, at times the focus primarily is on helping people to resolve challenges in their outer worlds/daily lives with the purpose of problem-solving and making difficult choices. At other times, the work may center primarily on individuals' inner worlds, including the impact of the past on informing beliefs and approaches to the present. I believe that people's perceptions of the world are impacted by both "rational" thought processing and "emotional realities", beliefs that were learned to make the most adaptive sense of the world at the time but may not be adaptive in the present. The more conscious and mindful people are of the different thoughts and feelings guiding their decisions, the greater the ability to integrate new ways of thinking and to make constructive changes in their lives.