Who Do I Treat?
Individual
Perhaps your thoughts run in painful ruts and you find yourself stuck. It’s natural, without a full understanding of the source, to find yourself reacting while experiencing recurring patterns. You might try to escape the pain or dull it through unhealthy habits not fully understanding what is happening internally.
Individual therapy provides understanding, acceptance, and forgiveness. Our work together is multi-faceted. We challenge and interrupt old patterns allowing you to engage your creativity, your essential nature, in a much deeper, more meaningful experience. Rather than living your life through repetition you become a clear, conscious choice-maker.
Couples/Family
Relationships fulfill and satisfy us at our deepest levels. However, when life and old, historic impressions produce resentment and mistrust, even the strongest partnerships are weakened and compromised. As a result, you may feel hopeless or discouraged. You may feel a loss of your emotional connection with your significant other/partner. Lack of understanding, confusion and fear can feel overwhelming and drive relationships to the brink of a crisis.
If you find yourself at a confusing crossroad, unsure how to proceed, couples therapy is the wise path to restoring the strength and vitality of your intimate connection with your partner.
Having a professional’s perspective can help guide you through the tangle of misunderstanding. Resolving emotionally challenging issues within relationships can nourish and heal both partners/family members. The goal – with dedication and time- is to rebuild a relationship rich with intimacy and love.
Family Business Succession Planning/Inheritance
The challenges and concerns of business succession and inheritance often produce anxiety and emotional pain. Such struggles may strain family and/or business relationships to a breaking point. Questions often arise: “What is fair?” “What is best for each person involved?” “What is best for the family?” “What is best for the business and the people involved?” Such questions
are bewildering. An objective professional experienced with individuals, families and
management teams and systems as they navigate the labyrinth of inheritance planning and family business succession can bring clarity, vision and facilitate understanding, compassionate support and “buy-in” from concerned individuals and groups. This process brings family members and individuals together to reach a clear, focused plan for the future.
Group
Group sessions are enriching in a unique, dynamic and powerful way. Interacting with others builds confidence, understanding and connection while extinguishing the feeling of isolation. You come to know you are not alone in your commitment to growth and seeking change.
Groups are offered several times each year. Specific topics can vary, but include:
- The Enneagram of Personality
- Spirituality in Recovery from Addiction
- Meditation groups and retreats
- Psychology of Awakening the Consciousness – Ego, Essence and Personality
Meditation Training
I have studied the function of consciousness for much of my life and have dedicated my spiritual practices and studies to define and facilitate genuine mystical experience and how to work with dream archetypes. I have taught and practiced classical forms of meditation such as Samatha and Vipassana and mindfulness methods of practice for the last 25 years.
Meditation practice is useful for anyone who wishes to develop a calmer, more conscious presence and internal clarity. Meditation provides internal peace and growth for anyone who practices. Past or present religious affiliation is not required.
Where your mind is quiet, when it is in silence, the new arrives
Religious Trauma
Religious trauma affects those who have spent significant time in an organized religion, a cult or any insular, exclusive group and has left or is thinking of separating. Rather than providing solace and a sense of inner peace, religious or spiritual beliefs have become sources of panic, fear and/or shame. A kind of crisis or confusion may occur when disengaging from previous ideas about God and a world that used to provide certainty, reliability and community. Loss of one’s sense of self and place in the world can cause depression and anxiety and may include struggles with professional, social, and intimate family relationships. Marriages or intimate partnerships and family relationships may be strained or in tatters. It may become challenging to trust and have confidence in one’s own perceptions and understanding of life’s experience.
Psychotherapy for religious trauma gives you the chance to define spirituality and its place in one’s life on one’s own terms. I am never an authoritarian voice. I do not dominate the narrative or define what anyone should believe or conclude. Instead, I offer tools for clarity, inner growth and discovery while empowering my client’s to embrace the life that is to come.
Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience
What to Expect
Sessions are 50 minutes in length.
We will explore your current life experience and talk over the issues that you feel are concerns; we will explore your thoughts and emotions as well. Together we will work to clarify the “what and why” of things that aren’t working. In the beginning, I’ll ask you a lot of questions so I better understand who you are and why you are asking for help. Together we will create a plan or map that will be unique to you and your needs. We will work together to find inner contentment, clarity, fulfillment and create a vision for your future.
It isn’t length of life that matters so much as depth of life.