By considering psychotherapy as a means to confront the challenges facing you, you have already taken the first step on a journey toward healing and transformation. The journey may be at turns challenging, exciting, or frightening. Together we will create the positive, connected therapeutic relationship that will help you to build your own self-compassion, overcome your fears, and transcend painful experience, allowing you to move forward into a new, richer experience of life.
I strive to work in a way that is collaborative and warmly interactive. I provide support, insight and useful feedback to help you truly resolve the difficulty that brought you to therapy. My approach is grounded in authentic relating between client and psychotherapist and respect for the healing potentials within each person; it is guided by the wisdom of Mindfulness practice and the discipline of Experiential Dynamic Therapy.
While no approach to psychotherapy can guarantee positive results, often long-standing and even lifelong difficulties can be overcome in a matter of months using this approach.
I strive to work in a way that is collaborative and warmly interactive. I provide support, insight and useful feedback to help you truly resolve the difficulty that brought you to therapy. My approach is grounded in authentic relating between client and psychotherapist and respect for the healing potentials within each person; it is guided by the wisdom of Mindfulness practice and the discipline of Experiential Dynamic Therapy.
While no approach to psychotherapy can guarantee positive results, often long-standing and even lifelong difficulties can be overcome in a matter of months using this approach.
Services
I am a licensed clinical psychologist providing psychotherapy and personal-growth workshops for adults and teens.
My private practice is located in San Luis Obispo, convenient to downtown and Cal Poly.
I came to Psychology after a career in law and politics, and have since then worked clinically with adult and adolescent clients in counseling centers at Cal Poly, Catholic University, the Adele Lebowitz Center for Children and Families, the Meyer Treatment Center of the Whitman-Walker Clinic, and the George Washington University Center Clinic.
My private practice is located in San Luis Obispo, convenient to downtown and Cal Poly.
I came to Psychology after a career in law and politics, and have since then worked clinically with adult and adolescent clients in counseling centers at Cal Poly, Catholic University, the Adele Lebowitz Center for Children and Families, the Meyer Treatment Center of the Whitman-Walker Clinic, and the George Washington University Center Clinic.
Many people find individual psychotherapy to be enormously helpful in resolving painful emotional and interpersonal concerns.
Sometimes, the first step is the most difficult one of all.
If you think you may have a concern that we could successfully address together, simply call me or visit my online appointment calendar right now to set up an initial consultation.
Process-oriented group therapy is a powerful tool for change and transformation, and can be used in addition to, or as an alternative to, individual therapy.
Sometimes, the first step is the most difficult one of all.
If you think you may have a concern that we could successfully address together, simply call me or visit my online appointment calendar right now to set up an initial consultation.
Process-oriented group therapy is a powerful tool for change and transformation, and can be used in addition to, or as an alternative to, individual therapy.
College should be an exciting time of growth and learning.
But students experience painful states of depression and anxiety as much as anyone else, and these struggles can rob the college years of their transformative potential.
For most college students, academic success is a top priority, but lots of things can get in the way.
Anxiety about performance, struggles with motivation, leaving home, negotiating friendships and romantic relationships, alcohol and other drug use, and worries about the future can all impact academic performance and quality of life.
But students experience painful states of depression and anxiety as much as anyone else, and these struggles can rob the college years of their transformative potential.
For most college students, academic success is a top priority, but lots of things can get in the way.
Anxiety about performance, struggles with motivation, leaving home, negotiating friendships and romantic relationships, alcohol and other drug use, and worries about the future can all impact academic performance and quality of life.
I offer a range of mental health enrichment courses and workshops appropriate both for participants having clinical diagnoses and those seeking greater growth, change and connection.
A Course in Transformation - an eight-week series.
Great stories can nurture, transform, challenge, and comfort us.
A Course in Transformation is a group experience exploring such themes as meaning, community, choice, and individuation through reading and discussing highly accessible, engaging works by Hesse, Adams, LeGuin, Gutterson, and others.
A Course in Transformation - an eight-week series.
Great stories can nurture, transform, challenge, and comfort us.
A Course in Transformation is a group experience exploring such themes as meaning, community, choice, and individuation through reading and discussing highly accessible, engaging works by Hesse, Adams, LeGuin, Gutterson, and others.
Our most profound feelings contain the seeds of our transformation and growth.
Often, however, our access to these healing emotions is blocked by fear, shame, and guilt.
We are left feeling stuck-mired in depression, anxiety, anger, dysfunctional relationships, addiction, and other forms of emotional suffering.
In the context of a warm, supportive, and connected relationship in psychotherapy, the fears that block us can be overcome, allowing us to reach wellsprings of transformation and unimagined new vitality.
Often, however, our access to these healing emotions is blocked by fear, shame, and guilt.
We are left feeling stuck-mired in depression, anxiety, anger, dysfunctional relationships, addiction, and other forms of emotional suffering.
In the context of a warm, supportive, and connected relationship in psychotherapy, the fears that block us can be overcome, allowing us to reach wellsprings of transformation and unimagined new vitality.
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