Areas of Specialty

Individuals working to overcome trauma, grief, and loss, whether the result of childhood trauma, loss of a loved one or pet, or the more vague loss of self that often happens in marriage or parenting.

Women struggling with issues of empowerment and depression. 

I have received John Gottman’s Advanced Marital Therapy Training and my work with couples is based on the Gottman Method, a compassionate and respectful way of working with couples that often brings about significant changes in their relationship by focusing on building the marital friendship, reducing hurtful conflict, and enhancing partner’s abilities to understand each other.

I also enjoy and have experience working with gay and lesbian couples.

Blended or stepfamilies are often experiencing intense challenges and fragility at the same time.  I bring in my own experience in a blended family to enhance our work.

When one family member suffers with a chronic illness or disability, all family members need to make adjustments.  I have experience helping families in which a member has epilepsy, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, and diabetes, and heart disease.

Life is difficult.  This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths.
It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it.
M. Scott Peck