Mental discomfort arises from a well of anxiety within. Using the latest neurocounseling techniques to integrate body, mind and relationship, I help you identify past and present stressors so you can metabolize anxious emotions. Through insight, practice and behavioral modification you gain inner composure and the ability to relate successfully. An improvement in physical health often results! My methods are relational and focus on non-psychopharmaceutical interventions, because while drugs may mitigate symptoms for awhile, they rarely cure. It’s about learning to look at things a new way and integrating a new way of being and acting in the world. Are you ready for a new you?

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Specialties

• Anxiety and panic regulation
• Emotional confusion and relational difficulties
• Anger management and evaluations 
• Substance use and abuse
• Insomnia
• Self-esteem improvement
• Depression and unhappiness
• Complex traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD)
• General health coaching
• Chronic pain, fibromyalgia, multiple chemical sensitivity
• Obesity and diabetes
• Alternatives to psychopharmaceuticals
• Medical diagnosis response and support
• Therapeutic consultation
  
• Cultural sensitivity, e.g. Military, Hispanic, Japanese, Native American

Non-pharmaceutical therapies 

There are hundreds of schools of psychology in which psychotherapists train. Each therapist uses a different basket of practices and so you will likely never find two who offer the same methods or advice. Here’s a list of those modalities that inform my integrated practice.

• Interpersonal Neurobiology (Daniel Siegel)
• 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)
• InnerWave Neurofeedback (Joan Cross)
• Enneagram of personality types (Don Rizo, A.H. Almaas)
• Narrative Therapy (Michael White)
• Bowen family therapy (Murray Bowen)
• Brief Strategic Therapy (Milton Erickson, Jay Haley)
• Buddhist psychology (Jack Kornfield)
• Dream interpretation (Carl Jung, Anita Johnson)
• Experiential therapy (Carl Whitaker)
• Homeopathy (Samuel Hahnemann)
• Integral Spirituality (Ken Wilber)
• Possibility Therapy (Bill O’Hanlon)
• Self Poetry therapy (Morgan Randall)
• Silence and Song voice and breath work (Susan Osborne)
• Bibliotherapy
• Solution-focused Brief Therapy (Steve deShazer/Insoo Kim Berg)
• Structural family therapy (Salvador Minuchin)
• BEINGnBALANCE approach to well being (Raymond Allred)