Counseling
The goal of counseling is to reduce or eliminate barriers to happiness by increasing wisdom and skillful action; enabling you to live a more whole, nourishing, and deeply enjoyable life. Using awareness, insight, processing and action to empower you to live the life you want - in work, community, relationships, and spirit.
This is a strengths based process; integrating a multitude of methods, maps and therapeutic modalities. We will bring awareness to outdated strategies, uncover their wisdom and origin, and update to new, functional and satisfying actions of body, speech and mind. This process occurring in a trauma informed, immediate, challenging, body-centered, culturally competent, growth model.
My counseling style is direct and results oriented. Though deeply compassionate and loving, we work for change and growth. Most of my Patients see results within the first few sessions. The way I work is not for everyone and although long term therapy CAN be appropriate for certain individuals, my goal is to get you out of my office living fully. A first session is key in finding a good fit between practitioner and yourself.
Individual
Open to anyone.
We work on envisioning your future, while developing the present moment skills to attain it.
You will discover your resistance, its wisdom and call on your inner resources and your surrounding community to achieve internal and external success.
growth
Specialized.
You have unique strengths and challenges. Move on your path to becoming whole - your unique journey is both challenging and uplifting; gifts reside IN the path.
Bringing about 'The Whole (Wo)Man' in you begins with cultivating new self-awareness: gaining insights about your present circumstances, reflecting on the positive and negative impacts of past choices and experiences, and exploring your desires or concerns about future change. You are Not a broken machine
As clarity develops, we create a new model for engaging with life - with action-oriented process, practice, and performance. You emerge from this process as a transformed, 'whole' person. Being a human is extraordinary!
Couples
For couples.
We work together to deepen your understanding of your own and your partner’s reality, without attempting to agree on a single version of it; but rather to become experts at RELATING to ourself and then each other. When each partner is able to not only accept thier own and partner’s experience as fundamentally different, AND have genuine curiosity, the relationship and intimacy will, ironically, deepen.
Most couples struggle for ‘closeness’ or ‘hapiness’ is caught in negotiations of differences; developing skills at being separate, and the deeper connections arising from a solid sense of self in relationship, propels new ways of relating and feeds satisfying interactions.
In focusing on our lived experience - what is actually heard, felt, seen, and known - and supporting the wisdom in resistance or difficult feelings, both parties can be more fully aware of a shared reality, and learn to live in it together.
Differences are strengths.
Intimacy = closeness + seperation.
