I bring forty years of experience to my practice and my clients. I specialize in Anxiety and Depressive disorders, Adult ADHD, and Marriage and Couple psychotherapy. I was a writer for the Mental Help Net and continue to write for my website and others I have appeared in New York Magazine and Cosmopolitan Magazines, the London Guardian, and on Television. I have licenses in the State of Colorado, New York, and Florida. My credentials can are available on the Dora site. In psychotherapy, the focus is on immediate problems and the relationship between therapist and client. The use of mindful meditation, yoga, and exercise are encouraged. My office is a sage, warm, and accepting place with no judgment, only warmth, and respect. Appointments are available by telephone. Fees are sliding scale according to need.

Let's explore those parts of you that want to be seen, held, and transformed. While my deep connection to the wild places in nature and contemplative practices inform my work, I incorporate skills from a variety of trainings I have successfully completed over the years. I offer a therapeutic environment of respectful challenge, acceptance, curiosity, and joy. Individuals I have worked with have experienced long-lasting changes, deep transformation, and shifts when feeling stuck and hopeless. I would like to support you in creating a deeply satisfying and joyful life. My work is based in contemplative practice, Gestalt and Hakomi therapy, and our deep and healing connection to others. My deepest passion lies in helping you connect with your core, your true self; reflected by authentic relationships with others, and expressed through your love for life. I have worked with individuals from all walks of life; people struggling with self-worth, states of mental or brain imbalances (such as depression, bi-polar, or anxiety), or PTSD. Areas of special interest are EPILEPSY, PSYCHOLOGICAL NON-EPILEPTIC SEIZURES, and SOMATOFORM DISORDERS. http://www.tearsandlaughter.com/ http://www.rockymountainepilepsy.com/

My approach to therapy is based on empathy, mindfulness and healthy attachment. I provide gentle guidance and challenge old limiting narratives and maladaptive behaviors. This exploration can and often does involve humor, the development of emotional fluency, and mind-body exploration. I am honored to enter into the sacred space of therapy together with my clients. In addition to thoughtful dialogue, I draw upon experiential therapeutic tools such as visualization, art therapy, psychodrama and role-play, and body awareness. I specialize in working with women's issues, eating disorders, intimacy/couples/relational issues, identity issues, anxiety/depression and moving through traumatic experiences. We all contain the inner wisdom to heal ourselves and move towards being an authentic, positive and loving person. The courage to be vulnerable --by moving toward our pain and confusion as well as our joy--utterly transforms and frees us.

A holistic, body/mind integrating psychotherapist and art therapist, my 23 years experience with individuals and couples shapes collaborations in which the client's own wisdom-knowing guides unique journeys into wholeness.

My experiential psychodynamic approach to depth healing and integration incorporates gestalt, applied existential psychology, creativity, guided imagery and dreamwork to resolve family of origin issues, developmental trauma, major life transitions, and explore potent life experiences such as relationships, chronic illness, eldering and identifying as GLBT.

I also facilitate classes based on Artlife Creation, exploring the intuitive creativity inherent throughout our lives, and authored the Sounds True teaching set Artlife: Creative Journeys for Life Healing (http://www.soundstrue.com/shop/Artlife/4273.pd)