Services
About My Clients
Our individual, group and family counseling services are available to everyone. We offer affordable fees to help you get the care you need. We offer family counseling and mediation to work out financial matters, visitation issues, and division of properties prior to the divorce decree. Florida has mandated mediation for divorces and the Helping Place strives to assist parting couples in finding stress free resolutions.
My Background and Approach
I graduated with my BA in physiology and biological physics, and then earned an MS degree in health education. I taught Radiologic Technology at a local community college and then moved on to working with physicians and hospitals, doing physician billing. Thereafter, realizing that I had a hard time working for people because of my ADD, I started putting together internal/family practices and hired physicians to staff the offices. Since managed health care appeared to be taking over the industry, I worked with the Plans and decided to venture out on my own. Along with a few partners, I started our own plan in South Florida. We were successful in providing great health care. After a while, I decided to go back to school so that I could do counseling professionally. So, I started a doctoral program at age 53 and graduated at age 57 with a doctorate in counseling psychology. In addition to practicing I also teach psychology on the college level.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I have been seeing patients with trauma or PTSD, secondary to being in the armed services and those that have had traumatic incidents for the last eight years. I have wanted to try and find something different that would be more successful than the techniques that were currently available. Towards that end, I found Reset Therapy. It is a method that uses sound to help reduce/eliminate the memory of the trauma. Like EMDR, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy, it works at reducing the intensity of the memory that is causing the trauma. Unlike EMDR, it uses sound as the medium to do that. We all know that sound can have many different effects. It can make us feel good, as in music, it can be very distasteful, as in scratching a chalkboard, or if too loud, it can cause hearing problems. I am a provider of Reset Therapy to assist those with PTSD.