Mental discomfort arises from emotional anxiety within your bodymind. So first, you and I identify past and present stressors in your life causing the anxiety. Then, using tools from cognitive behavioral therapy, interpersonal neurobiology and somatic psychology, you learn how to respond, not react to these stressors, so you gain inner composure. Methods are relational and focus on non-pharmaceutical interventions, because while drugs may mitigate symptoms for awhile, they rarely cure and sometimes make things worse.

Mental health counseling is about learning to look at life a new way. About learning to recognize the patterns your consciousness takes as it manifests your personality and behaviors. And most important, learning new ways to handle anxiety, so you can self regulate and be more successful in relationship with yourself and others.

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

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Specialties

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

Non-pharmaceutical therapies 

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

• 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 therapy (Morgan Randall)
• Bibliotherapy
• Solution-focused Therapy (Steve deShazer/Insoo Kim Berg)
• Structural family therapy (Salvador Minuchin)
• BEINGnBALANCE approach to well being (Raymond Allred)