My practice focus on: Couples: marital conflict, lack of intimacy, couples struggling with cultural differences, separation and mediation. Families: behavioral problems with children and teens, parenting issues, family conflict and destructive family dynamics. Individual Adults and Teens: anxiety, panic attacks, grief, depression, anger management, destructive behavior, low self-esteem and communication problems with family and peers.

Multi-cultural counseling: I provide culturally sensitive counseling to individuals and couples of a different cultural background. I offer sessions in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French and Italian.

Approach: I use a combination of therapeutic approaches including: Existential, Gestalt, Systemic, Cognitive Behavioral and Emotion Focused Therapy.

Rate: $100 per 55 minutes session. Insurance accepted.

People come into my office for many reasons, and the struggle is often that they are dealing with a problem that seems too overwhelming and too complex to handle by themselves. As a result they feel stuck and not able to see a way out. I combine my knowledge of perceptual balancing, neuroscience and Body Psychotherapy to offer a new perspective that is designed to get to the heart of the issue, integrate it and provide the client with new possibilities.

My specialization is working with adults who experienced childhood abuse & neglect, although I work with other issues as well. Reasonable rates. Author of Healing From Trauma(2008) and The Emotionally Absent Mother (2010), both self-help books.

My work draws from many traditions. These include working with “parts” of self, including inner child parts; somatically oriented trauma therapy; working relationally to help heal attachment wounds; and working with beliefs and life structures when that is relevant. I find that being a consistent, caring presence and having traveled through much of this territory myself in my own healing are central to my work.

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.