Counseling

Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist in California since 1992 (License No. LMFT30252)

Services include:

In a safe, trusting, and comfortable environment, I offer:

• Individual counseling for teens to elders
• Family counseling
• Support Counseling and Coaching for parents and guardians
• Consultation for schools, organizations and businesses
• I help you develop awareness of thoughts, feelings, and actions you are wishing to change through various activities:
  • Dialogue
  • Sensory awareness    
  • Multi-media creative arts
  • Mindfulness meditation/exercises
  • Focusing (originated by Eugene Gendlin)
  • Positive communication and relationship skill building
• Specific tools to cope with grief, loss, and life transitions.

How I Work

• With a positive person-centered approach showing respect, acceptance and appreciation for  who  each person is and is becoming, without judgment or criticism
  • This includes establishing your goals in coming to therapy at this time in your life
• Developing the capacity of every person to discover and choose their true path in life
• Trusting every person’s ability for resilience in the face of adversity and the ability to thrive
• Helping each client to replace self-criticism and negative self-talk with positive, compassionate awareness
• Offering practical tools to cope with life’s challenges
• Offering the opportunity to change deeply engrained patterns
• Supporting each individual’s right to be seen, heard and understood
• Giving attention to and integrating body, mind, soul, and spirit aspects of the person
• Exploring and addressing yearning for connection, belonging, purpose, and meaning
• Offer tools for positive relationships and healthy communication
• Encouraging social intelligence

Modalities

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
• Choice Therapy
• Person Centered Therapy
• Mindfulness and Acceptance Therapy
• Expressive Healing Art

Focus

• Grief and Loss, life transitions, changes and challenges throughout the biography
• Dealing with feelings of isolation and loneliness
• Tools to understand and reduce anxiety
• Values clarification
• Application of latest research in the neurosciences, psychology and the arts to help achieve happiness and fulfillment, self-worth, self-care, compassion for self and others