Working with body, mind, heart and soul

I believe the process of psychotherapy i​s successful when our lives change for the better.  I bring a solution focused approach to our work.  We collaborate on identifying the problems, developing the plan to address them, and assessing the effectiveness of the solutions.  This is when talk therapy is most helpful.

Sometimes the causes of our distress are within our conscious awareness and sometimes they are not.  When talk therapy doesn't work then it is time to use other methods such as somatic based approaches and meridian based treatment (TFT/EFT/"tapping.")   Somatic Experiencing provides us tools to help release the unresolved traumatic events of the past.   Meridian based therapies (such as EFT/TFT) use the acupuncture meridians to access and unblock stuck energies, thoughts and feelings.  ​

Sometimes the issues are not just within the individual.  We live in families, with partners, children, and parents.  We have close relationships with coworkers and friends.  These other people in our lives affect us profoundly.  When the problem is in the family or social system it can be impossible to find the solution only within ourselves.  In these cases, bringing awareness to the system can be helpful.