My specialties
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- Couples and Marriage Counseling
- Helping couples meet their longings to be seen, heard, understood and accepted by their partner
- Resolving differences so they become enhancers, not unfinished business
- Rekindling positive energy between you
- Premarital counseling
- Specializing in working with gay and lesbian couples
- Resolving childhood attachment issues that can get in the way of trust and closeness
- Trauma Therapy
- Resolving panic, anxiety, depression, insomnia, hyper vigilance, lack of focus
- Helping childhood or adult victims of physical, emotional or sexual abuse
- Resolving surgery and dental traumas, car accident and natural disaster traumas
- Treating childhood neglect or abuse
- Helping adult children of a narcissistic parent
- Family Therapy
- Helping families grow through crisis, transitions, and everyday challenges:
- Support through the loss of a family member
- Divorce and stepfamily issues
- Adding a new child to the family, sibling rivalry
- Coaching teens and their parents through adolescence and emancipation
- Adapting to an empty nest
- Coaching Parents
- Learning to set age-appropriate limits and boundaries and developing effective natural consequences for kid’s misbehavior and mistakes
- Knowing what kids need at each stage of development to foster their emotional intelligence
- Helping kids learn to make mature decisions and develop independence
- Helping your child through divorce or other losses
- Helping parents survive their child’s teen years
- Divorce and Step-family Coaching
- Help through the stages of divorce
- Support for resolving the emotional challenges of divorce
- Helping you coach your child through divorce
- Changing relationship patterns so you don’t choose the “same” partner the next time
- Creating healthy step families and coaching in how to blend two families
- Adult Attachment Therapy
- Resolving childhood attachment issues that can get in the way of adult relationships with spouses, children, friends, bosses, and co-workers
- Individual Adolescent and Adult Therapy
- Making the changes you want for a more fulfilling adulthood
- Transforming relationship patterns that formed in childhood
- Changing “roles” or scripts we developed as a child
- Transforming ways we learned to “cope” to make it in our family
- Finishing unresolved issues with parents and caregivers
- Recovering from having a narcissistic or personality-disordered parent or spouse
- Resolving grief and loss issues
- Spirituality
- Bringing mindfulness to every moment
- Discovering self empowerment
- Support through spiritual discovery, emergence and growth