Psychotherapy relieves stress, promotes self awareness and self care to increase self esteem and personal contentment. For conditions such as clinical depression and anxiety-often treated and supported by medication- psychotherapy is proven to increase responsiveness to medication and provide the best response over time. Most couples who begin therapy, do so in a state of crisis, and with a high level of conflict.
Couples therapy provides the unique opportunity to slow down, communicate and experience your partner in new and different ways. Group therapy is a powerful experience for people struggling with a variety of interpersonal problems. Being in a therapy group promotes an authentic and safe way to experience yourself through the lens of another. It will widen your perspective about how others experience the world and can be supportive as well as expansive.
I create a safe therapeutic environment to help you inquire about sexuality, sexual concerns and sexual behavior. I ask specific and targeted questions regarding experience, exposure, fantasy and physicality.
Couples therapy provides the unique opportunity to slow down, communicate and experience your partner in new and different ways. Group therapy is a powerful experience for people struggling with a variety of interpersonal problems. Being in a therapy group promotes an authentic and safe way to experience yourself through the lens of another. It will widen your perspective about how others experience the world and can be supportive as well as expansive.
I create a safe therapeutic environment to help you inquire about sexuality, sexual concerns and sexual behavior. I ask specific and targeted questions regarding experience, exposure, fantasy and physicality.
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Your daily routine; medical conditions/issues, sleep cycle, exercise, nutrition, relationship(s), work satisfaction, and finances contribute to how you feel, manage stress and ultimately, make decisions.
Reading and journaling are often helpful ways to connect differently to your experience.
I will readily recommend any resources, books, articles, films that may illuminate a new perspective relevant to a problem you are discussing.
As the how and the why become known and understood, change and growth becomes possible.
Reading and journaling are often helpful ways to connect differently to your experience.
I will readily recommend any resources, books, articles, films that may illuminate a new perspective relevant to a problem you are discussing.
As the how and the why become known and understood, change and growth becomes possible.
Our consultations and workshops are an opportunity to explore patterns of relating with our mothers, daughters, others and ourselves.
I have successfully worked with a number of daughter-mother pairs for mediation and short term psychotherapy.
I provide an environment of safety with boundaries; helping the daughter and mother more fully understand the current narratives they each bring to the relationship.
Negotiating a new narrative provides forward momentum for the relationship.
Being able to reflect on our life experiences with consciousness can help us decide how we want to live and relate as women.
I have successfully worked with a number of daughter-mother pairs for mediation and short term psychotherapy.
I provide an environment of safety with boundaries; helping the daughter and mother more fully understand the current narratives they each bring to the relationship.
Negotiating a new narrative provides forward momentum for the relationship.
Being able to reflect on our life experiences with consciousness can help us decide how we want to live and relate as women.
Mediation is a tested, sensitive, intelligent approach to the resolution of separation, divorce, custody, and family disputes.
In mediation, the parties meet with a mediator (s) who raises all of the topics which need to be addressed and facilitates a discussion to reach a resolution.
A constructive framework is provided that promotes parties to make mutual decisions as they move from "opposing positions" to discussions and negotiations of "mutual interests".
Our goal is to assist you to most effectively, comfortably and confidently represent yourself (with any desired assistance by legal counsel) in mediation.
In mediation, the parties meet with a mediator (s) who raises all of the topics which need to be addressed and facilitates a discussion to reach a resolution.
A constructive framework is provided that promotes parties to make mutual decisions as they move from "opposing positions" to discussions and negotiations of "mutual interests".
Our goal is to assist you to most effectively, comfortably and confidently represent yourself (with any desired assistance by legal counsel) in mediation.
I teach couples how to get beyond impasses and de-escalate the negative cycle of anger and withdrawal so that they can communicate effectively.
I bring depth and sensitivity to the conversation of your relationship.
I have been able to help couples renew trust and transform their relationship even when there has been sustained neglect and/or betrayal.
I work with all types of couples: couples exploring cohabitation and marriage as well as couples exploring separation.
I work with heterosexual and gay couples, couples trying to understand the impact of an affair, couples with sexual issues/dysfunction.
I bring depth and sensitivity to the conversation of your relationship.
I have been able to help couples renew trust and transform their relationship even when there has been sustained neglect and/or betrayal.
I work with all types of couples: couples exploring cohabitation and marriage as well as couples exploring separation.
I work with heterosexual and gay couples, couples trying to understand the impact of an affair, couples with sexual issues/dysfunction.
I create a safe therapeutic environment to help you inquire about sexuality, sexual concerns and sexual behavior.
I ask specific and targeted questions regarding experience, exposure, fantasy and physicality.
I have experience working with the following presenting problems: sexual avoidance, low sexual desire, hypersexuality, difficulty achieving orgasm, erectile dysfunction, sexual compulsive behaviors, gender identity, sexual identity and medical issues impacting sexuality.
I am curious about the emotional, situational and relational connection to the presenting sexual condition and will inquire about all of these feelings and factors.
I ask specific and targeted questions regarding experience, exposure, fantasy and physicality.
I have experience working with the following presenting problems: sexual avoidance, low sexual desire, hypersexuality, difficulty achieving orgasm, erectile dysfunction, sexual compulsive behaviors, gender identity, sexual identity and medical issues impacting sexuality.
I am curious about the emotional, situational and relational connection to the presenting sexual condition and will inquire about all of these feelings and factors.
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