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In individual work, I am interactive and work concretely with goals and how to achieve those goals.
I offer specific tools for improving areas you are struggling with or just want to improve:
- creating clear communication,
- how to disagree in a non-divisive way,
- how to clarify expectations, wants and needs, disappointments and resentments, etc.
I am also mindful of the effect that a person's childhood has on how a person acts as an adult and where she/he gets "stuck", so I can "unstick" those places with specific skill-building.
My specializations include:
depression, anxiety,
all relationship issues,
eating disorders/bingeing,
chronic illness (especially CFIDS and diabetes), and
problems with sex/sexuality,
childhood history of abuse (intermittent/chronic/severe),
and PTSD, including single incidents to severe dissociative processes.
In couples work, I support each person’s process and direction.
I am fair and balanced with each partner in a couple; I am directive and create new ways of communicating and safe experiments within the session.
I work with many different kinds of couples and a large variety of issues.
Focus is often on:
issues of improved communication,
fair fighting,
unequal/inhibited sexual desire,
abuse history affecting intimacy,
separation decisions,
clean divorce.
I have thirty-two years licensed experience working with individual women, men and couples.
I have been in private practice since 1980, when I received my license to practice Marriage and Family Counseling.
I just completed a three-year part-time position with UCSF as a Behavior Medicine Specialist for CDAPP (California Diabetes and Pregnancy Program). I trained health care professionals in psychosocial issues in their Sweet Success (pregnancy and diabetes) programs. Before that I worked directly as a Social Worker with pregnant women who had diabetes; I screened them for depression and provided education and support regarding a wide range of psychosocial issues.
It also has a number of articles about when a person might need therapy, how to find a therapist and information about couples counseling. There are links to organizations as well as book lists and other useful information.
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