Practice information:

My priorities as a therapist:

• Share my knowledge and insights gathered over my 30 years as a therapist, as well as recent training in Somatic Psychotherapy,  to enhance my client's experience in therapy
• Offer valuable life skills including meditation, breathing work, and other skills for nervous system regulation to every client 
• Offer new perspectives and experiments in every session - opportunities to try on new things and find what’s most meaningful/valuable to my client. I am a lifelong learner and continually bring new strategies and approaches to my work with clients.
• During sessions, to spend more time exploring the present moment than focusing on the past and future, because this is where true insight and capacity for positive change emerges.
• Work from the knowledge that my clients are complex beings and have a great capacity for growth, change and healing. I help them see and appreciate this in themselves too.
• Provide more than just exploration of client’s thoughts and feelings but also explore and learn from their body sensations and reactions; how their brain works, and how their intuition is guiding them. 
• As a Yogi and Certified Yoga Therapist,  for my work as a therapist to embody the Yogic principles of Ahimsa- love and non-harm toward self and others; Satya- truthfulness in thought, word and deed; Holism - attention to client’s whole being…mind, brain, and body; Here and Now focus - paying attention to what is present in the moment; and Unconditional acceptance.
• Continual inquiry and growth as a person and a therapist. Some of my current life and professional questions I am exploring:
  • What are some emerging ways I can use my therapist skills to support the social problems of our times?
  • How can I best help my clients who are struggling with climate anxiety, in addition (or underlying) their other concerns
  • What sorts of healing circles or group experiences can foster both individual and collective healing in adolescents and young adults
  • What new insights and skills can I learn next that will support my clients?
  • As I get older, what are the ways I can stay connected and relevant in a quickly changing world?
  • How can I best share the wisdom and insight I have gained in my life thus far to benefit others?