FEELING DISCONNECTED, CONSIDER COUNSELING TODAY... The mind, body and spirit work in unison and negative emotions such as depression, anger, guilt and low self-esteem are some of the harmful toxins that may manifest themselves. I feel therapy is a teamwork process that stimulates the enhancement of personal strengths and empowerment to aid in reaching your goals. Having been associated with a law enforcement agency for 13 years and working with victims in crisis I have experience in treating domestic violence, sex assault, grief and loss. I work by using a problem focused approach, identifying issues, the source of the problem and aid in providing resolution.

I am a Holistic Psychotherapist (also known as an Integrative Psychotherapist) with over 21 years of experience providing efficient yet powerful therapy to bring about authentic, lifelong change. I specialize in working with the whole person, creatively integrating a variety of techniques to: • Reduce Physical/Emotional Stress • Decrease Anxiety and Depression • Move through Grief & Loss • Increase Self Esteem • Negotiate Major Life and Career Transitions • Clarify Life Direction • Cultivate Contentment and Satisfaction • Manage Chronic Pain and Illness • Clear Creative Blocks

Trauma blocks our ability to see our own healing power. It derails our confidence in our amazing strength, radiance, and perseverance. I help people work through difficult events by helping them connect with this power already present within; I guide people in their journeys toward uncovering and embracing their own inner wisdom, creativity, and strength. Having someone witness and feel your joys and pains with you may be the most healing aspect of therapy. I offer you a safe space for us to explore the darkest and most difficult places together. You don't have to do it alone. Though we cannot control our emotions, by making friends with them we can find peace and maintain greater control over our lives. I hope to guide this process of embracing the colorfulness of the turbulent human heart, at a rate that is both gentle and challenging.

The theory of SMART is based on the research that thoughts, emotions, and bodily sensations are interacting. SMART therapeutic perspective believes neurobiological linkage between behavior, thoughts, emotion, and sensation. SMART's comprehensive perspective sees that the roots of behavior start from the nervous system, which transmits neurons through synaptic space and send signals as a bodily sensation using neuromuscular (the meeting place of a nerve and a muscle fiber), which interprets into emotions, emotions generates thoughts and thoughts activate behaviors. SMART is an etiological treatment on the unbroken chain of humans' behavior from intervening nerve system and neuromuscular using Static Movement treatment