Mental discomfort arises from a well of anxiety within. Using the latest neuro-counseling and somatic psychology techniques, we identify past and present stressors so you may metabolize unbalanced emotions. Through cognitive and behavioral modification, you gain inner composure with the ability to relate more successfully. An improvement in physical health often results! My methods are relational and focus on non-pharmaceutical interventions, because while drugs may mitigate symptoms, they rarely cure. It’s about learning to look at things a new way, about integrating a new way of being in the world. Are you ready to grow into a new 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
• Self-esteem improvement
• Depression and unhappiness
• Complex traumatic stress disorder (cPTSD)
• General health coaching
• Medical diagnosis response and support
• Therapeutic consultation
  
• Cultural sensitivity, i.e. military, Latino, Japanese, Native American

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 will rarely find two who offer the same methods. Here’s a list of 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)
• Dream interpretation (Carl Jung, Anita Johnson)
• Experiential therapy (Carl Whitaker)
• Homeopathy (Samuel Hahnemann)
• 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)