Stuff happens.

Things outside our control happen everyday. How we respond to difficulty determines how happy and successful our lives will be.

Stress causes anxiety. It’s experienced as physical and mental discomfort within your unique bodymind. Using tools from cognitive behavioral therapy, interpersonal neurobiology, nutritional science, somatic and object-relations psychology, you are able to rebalance and reintegrate your unique system of body, mind and psyche. Methods are relational and focus on non-pharmaceutical interventions, because while drugs may mitigate symptoms for awhile, they rarely cure and too often make things worse.

Bodymind Counseling is about looking at life a new way. About learning to care for yourself. About clearing your mind of misconceptions and knee-jerk reactivity. You’ll uncover old dysfunctional patterns your subconscious takes as it manifests your personality and behaviors. At your own pace, you rewire these patterns to live with greater contentment and success. But most important, you learn better ways to handle normal everyday anxiety, so you may self regulate to be more present and caring in relationship to yourself and others.

Are you ready to learn, grow and change into a happier, healthier you?

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Specialties

• Substance use and abuse
• Anxiety and panic regulation
• Emotional confusion and relational difficulties
• Anger management and mental health assessments 
• Complex traumatic stress disorder (cPTSD)
• General health coaching
• Medical diagnosis response and support
• Therapeutic consultation
• Extra sensitivity to Latino, Japanese, Native American and US military cultures.

Non-pharmaceutical therapies 

There are hundreds of schools of psychology in which psychotherapists train. Each one uses a different basket of theoretical tools, so you rarely find two psychotherapists who offer the same methods. Here’s a list of the primary modalities that inform my integrated practice.

• Solution-focused Therapy (Steve deShazer/Insoo Kim Berg)
• Interpersonal Neurobiology (Daniel Siegel)
• Somatic psychology (Arielle Schwartz)
• Object-relations psychology (Margaret Mahler)
• Mindfulness Solutions (Ronald Siegel)
• Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (Jon Kabat-Zinn)
• Diamond Approach to psycho-spiritual integration (A.H. Almaas)
• Bach Flower Remedies (Edward Bach)
• Enneagram of personality types (Richard Rizo, A.H. Almaas)
• Narrative Therapy (Michael White)
• Bowen family therapy (Murray Bowen)
• Buddhist psychology (Jack Kornfield)
• Homeopathy (Samuel Hahnemann)
• Self Poetry  (Morgan Randall)
• Bibliotherapy
• Structural family therapy (Salvador Minuchin)
• BEINGnBALANCE approach to wellbeing (Raymond Allred)