WHO I HELP
Adults and college age folk who are inquisitive, creative, sensitive, empathic, caring people who love learning and love putting their learning into action.
Often the people who come to me are determined, intelligent, hard workers. They’ve accomplished a lot in life, but might feel they keep lugging around a weight, feel out-of-step with everyone else, or have trouble just enjoying life. They don’t get it. Others seem to be so much more in sync with life, do their jobs, raise a family, and go do fun things. What’s up?
You might know all about one or more of the following: tons of emotion or nothing —feeling dead inside. Often debilitating, puzzling fears, not sure whom you can trust. Bouts of depression. Memories and thoughts that keep popping into your head for seemingly no reason. Trouble sleeping, messed up eating habits, or other habits brought on in an effort to keep your head above water. And the sensitivities: light, sound, foods, on and on.
You’re accomplished in so many areas of your life, you think you ought to be able to figure this out, too, but it hasn’t happened. Not your fault.
Your personal make-up and your experiences created the place you’ve landed in, and it takes healthy, kind self-knowledge and healing, enriching experiences to get you out. Then healthy growth can follow and take hold. Joyously so.
I love working with college age and under 40 adults because, if I can help you have an easier time of it than I had —- Whoo-hoo!! And that can happen! We now know how to activate healing that builds. What a gift for you and for everyone in your sphere, now and for decades to come.
And I dearly love the sweet brilliance of working with those in their middle years and older. I love seeing you discover lightness and joy you might have given up on. I can so relate.
HOW
The world of therapy has come a lonnnng way since I first entered this field. Thank Goodness. I was so exasperated back then, I left the field. Said I would never come back.
What changed?
The fields of neuroscience and integrative approaches combined with practices from our far-back ancestors (Eastern and Western). That’s what’s changed. We now know how to use mindfulness, deep states of consciousness (not your To-Do-List brain), what our bodies tell us, and foundational, integrative approaches as a map and compass that guide the way to health for each of us. Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) and its offspring (DBT, ACT)* are still a part of the mix, but there is so much more.
*DBT: Dialectical Behavior Therapy. ACT: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy