My Approach

Overview

Symptoms I’ve Worked With

  • Feeling too much (high anxiety, panic, easily startled, anger, sleep problems, flashbacks, “overwhelmed”)

  • Feeling too little (numbness, dissociation, chronic depression, shame, lack of past memories, low self-esteem)

  • Physiological Symptoms (chronic pain, fatigue, muscle tension, nausea, digestive issues, headaches, heart palpitations)

  • Behaviors (perfectionism, hyper-rationalism, caretaking, enabling, obsessive behaviors, people pleasing, substance abuse, eating disorders, or self-harm)

  • Attachment issues (feeling “needy” or “clingy,” craving intimacy, fearing abandonment, being over-sensitive to a partner’s moods; avoiding closeness or vulnerability; a combination of desiring closeness but pushing others away)

Some Professional Influences

  • Richard C. Schwartz — his development of Internal Family Systems has been the most transformational modality I’ve discovered. His believe that all humans have a core essence or “Self,” is truly powerful.

  • Somatic Therapies - including Peter Levine (SE), Ron Kurtz (Hakomi), Janina Fisher (Senorimotor), Stephen Terrell (TEB)

  • Interpersonal Neurobiology — Bonnie Baddenoch, Daniel Siegel, Diana Fosha (AEDP), Pat Ogden (Sensorimotor)

  • Relational Therapy — including Irving Yalom, Patricia Deyoung,François Le Doze (IFS), Dr. Gabor Maté, Bruce Perry

  • Marshall Rosenberg — A psychologist who pioneered - “Non-Violent Communication.”

  • Deb Dana & Stanley Rosenberg — the use of Polyvagal Theory in Therapy

Carl Jung

“Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul.”