As a Jungian psychotherapist I work with individuals, couples and groups to help them listen for their own messages buried deep in their selves. We work on hearing those faint taps so that they can be heard and explored. This is a collaborative relationship focusing not only on current difficulties but on past experiences and future possibilities.
I have been in private practice for over 35 years and I teach graduate psychology courses, provide supervision for interns and trainees. As well I have held Executive and Senior management positions in several healthcare agencies. I have served on the Board of Directors of the state chapter of the national professional organization-AAMFT - and have been elected and re-elected to that position to represent clients and clinicians in the mental health care field.
I have been in private practice for over 35 years and I teach graduate psychology courses, provide supervision for interns and trainees. As well I have held Executive and Senior management positions in several healthcare agencies. I have served on the Board of Directors of the state chapter of the national professional organization-AAMFT - and have been elected and re-elected to that position to represent clients and clinicians in the mental health care field.
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Therapy, for me, provides that still point from which we can more deeply experience and learn the dance.
I am a Jungian psychotherapist and, as such, believe that our deep interior selves, the psyche, wants us to learn more about ourselves and our relationships.
With that foundation I draw from several theoretical approaches, focus on clients feelings and beliefs and have often witnessed the importance of the emergence of the symbolic in our lives.
I started in this field in Michigan as crisis mental health and substance abuse counselor in the 1970's.
I am a Jungian psychotherapist and, as such, believe that our deep interior selves, the psyche, wants us to learn more about ourselves and our relationships.
With that foundation I draw from several theoretical approaches, focus on clients feelings and beliefs and have often witnessed the importance of the emergence of the symbolic in our lives.
I started in this field in Michigan as crisis mental health and substance abuse counselor in the 1970's.
Yes, psychotherapy is a journey.
A journey of uncovering the questions of our lives, so that we may live towards our own answers.
The more relational and emotionally based this work is then the more rewarding and successful.
I see this as usually mid or long term work.
The psyche takes its own time to reveal itself.
A lifetime is not explored and changed in a few months.
Of course, there are problems, people and circumstances that do lend themselves to briefer problem solving approaches.
If this is indicated then that is what we'll do.
A journey of uncovering the questions of our lives, so that we may live towards our own answers.
The more relational and emotionally based this work is then the more rewarding and successful.
I see this as usually mid or long term work.
The psyche takes its own time to reveal itself.
A lifetime is not explored and changed in a few months.
Of course, there are problems, people and circumstances that do lend themselves to briefer problem solving approaches.
If this is indicated then that is what we'll do.
Paradoxically, schooled in independence and the individual, the Western soul turns towards inter-dependent relationships to seek meaning, transcendence, wholeness and ecstasy.
When we first meet not only do we see what we hope the other will be for us but we show the better selves we hope to become.
Communication, negotiations, agreements -these are necessary skills to learn and practice.
The necessary foundation for them is to truly hear and trust each other.
We will focus on how people experience and react to their own perceptions and emotions and how they send and receive them with their partner.
When we first meet not only do we see what we hope the other will be for us but we show the better selves we hope to become.
Communication, negotiations, agreements -these are necessary skills to learn and practice.
The necessary foundation for them is to truly hear and trust each other.
We will focus on how people experience and react to their own perceptions and emotions and how they send and receive them with their partner.
As a Jungian I know that the psyche is our connection to the greater whole of Being.
Increase of consciousness through awareness of spiritual, soulful and "un-scientific" experiences is a fundamental tenant of the psyche's communication from the depth of our Selves.
Deep connected interaction forms the basis of this exploration.
Dreams, meditation, active imagination/fantasy, poetry, sand tray, creative arts, role playing and more may unfold in our work together.
Increase of consciousness through awareness of spiritual, soulful and "un-scientific" experiences is a fundamental tenant of the psyche's communication from the depth of our Selves.
Deep connected interaction forms the basis of this exploration.
Dreams, meditation, active imagination/fantasy, poetry, sand tray, creative arts, role playing and more may unfold in our work together.
Play is the natural medium of a child's self expression and connection to the world of others.
For a child to become independent, she/he has to be dependent first.
To turn to other people and reach for them, to know they are there and how to connect with them is how we build a sense of self and learn how big the world is.
For a child to become independent, she/he has to be dependent first.
To turn to other people and reach for them, to know they are there and how to connect with them is how we build a sense of self and learn how big the world is.
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