About Me
I am interested in helping people with primary attachment issues. I work with couples dealing directly with their attachment problems with each other. I work with individuals who are looking internally to figure out their obstacles to developing intimate partnerships. In both my individual and couples work I usually explore the family of origin as one source of understanding and improving love relationships. My style is collaborative and exploratory while I maintain a hopefully transparent point of view. I look at psychotherapy as an unusual conversation where both people are focused on one to help that person grow and change.
About 50% of my practice is with couples, who vary in age,cultural background, and sexual orientation. I find couples work interesting and gratifying because of my interest in individual development and change, the system of the couple, and how each, the two individuals, and the relationship, influence each other.
I enjoy being a psychotherapist. I believe I am truly privileged to be a witness and guide to peoples' intimate explorations of themselves and their relationships. I am proud of my unusual background; being from two different disciplines, having had supervisors from at least five different disciplines, having worked in a variety of mental health settings, and having started working in the mental health field over 30 years ago (first job in the field as a psychiatric aide in a psychiatric hospital).
About 50% of my practice is with couples, who vary in age,cultural background, and sexual orientation. I find couples work interesting and gratifying because of my interest in individual development and change, the system of the couple, and how each, the two individuals, and the relationship, influence each other.
I enjoy being a psychotherapist. I believe I am truly privileged to be a witness and guide to peoples' intimate explorations of themselves and their relationships. I am proud of my unusual background; being from two different disciplines, having had supervisors from at least five different disciplines, having worked in a variety of mental health settings, and having started working in the mental health field over 30 years ago (first job in the field as a psychiatric aide in a psychiatric hospital).
