Areas of Specialty

¨      Women struggling with issues of empowerment and depression (voice, invisibility, connection to self, personal power, and power in relationships).

¨      I have received John Gottman’s Advanced Marital Therapy Training and my work with couples is grows out of 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.  (For more detailed information on how I work with couples see the “How I Work” section)

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

¨      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. 

¨      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.

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