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My practice involves two very different populations: adult and children. For adults I bring a combination of empathic listening and insightful questions to my clients. As a listener, I communicate realness, caring and a deeply sensitive non-judgmental understanding. I practice participative and empathic listening, while allowing his client to freely vent their feelings.
Simultaneously I brings discordant elements into a mutual, self-disclosing confrontation. My approach deals with the hear-and-now. I focus attention on immediate behavior. While clients often feel fragmented, with at least some perceptions, feelings, behaviors or thoughts that are puzzling, unrelated, troubling or discordant, I help you discover and align these various aspects.
For children, I present a very different set of skills. First, there’s an extensive assessment period that may last as long as a month – including sessions with parents, guardians and children together and individually. With parents and guardians, I act as a fact-finder – understanding what’s been happening and your attempts to make improvements. For children, I act as a fun, happy adult-playmate who assesses their experiences through attachment and play-based testing. With the parents, I then discuss what I have observed and potential therapies specifically tailored to your child’s needs.
As a leader at one of the country’s largest personal growth facilities for 14 years I learned to listen to the multiple depths of my clients and encourage their strengths. My approach is both client-centered and body oriented. After a dozen years honing these team-building skills in the business arena, Russ completed his Master’s Degree in Counseling, two years of specialty training and supervision in Internal Family Systems Therapy. Currently, I have begun seeing children while I complete an intense supervision with the areas leading child psychologist.
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