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About My Clients
Maybe you're at a crisis point in your relationship. Or longing for deeper connection with community, family, or friends. You care about the well-being of others, yet you need more support and understanding in your own life. You long to feel good about yourself and let your love shine! I want to help you have peace with yourself and harmony and influence with others in your life, including family, friends, lovers, co-workers, and even those who might seem like adversaries.
My Background and Approach
Do you want solutions that definitely work for you, and also work for other people? Drawing upon my 34 years in active recovery and my lifetime as a survivor of childhood brain injury, I have learned empathy for a wide variety of challenges people face. From my 21 years as a therapist, and my longtime passion for peace, I have learned a wealth of resources for healing and discovery. Together we can clarify what helps you thrive and find new ways to make that happen. Where trauma is present we can meet it with tenderness. Depending on your preferences, we can use Nonviolent Communication, Gestalt Therapy, Internal Family Systems, The Work of Byron Katie, or other resources. I would like to hear about what is important to you and talk about how we can collaborate to bring more harmony and satisfaction into your inner and outer life. I want to support your empowerment and your peace. I want to support your enjoyment of relationships and discoveries about what really works.
My Values as a Therapist
From the School of Hard Knocks, I love helping humanity go sane, me first! So I have to do my own work. The best tools I have found for individual healing are the ones that transform relationships. Gestalt Therapy: Let’s experiment. Humans project, and I can gently help you meet and digest your human projections – getting to know yourself and others better. I invite you to here-and-now embodied experience in support of awareness and connection. Nonviolent Communication: We've been taught to play “Who’s Right?,” AKA "Power-Over." A more fun game is possible: the game of “Making Life Wonderful,” or "Power-With." In NVC we create the conditions to bring out the fun of giving and receiving. Our passionate attachment longings are part of why this works. The Work of Byron Katie: Let's identify the thoughts that cause the trouble. Then let's question them. And discover treasures! Engaging these questions can put us in touch with our own inherent wisdom.