Psychotherapy

I am helpful to men and women from diverse cultural backgrounds and lifestyles who seek happier and meaningful lives. Most of my clients desire deep change instead of quick fixes or advice therefore I really take time to know and help people commit to and believe in themselves and do the deep work to address the essential conditions of being human--thinking loving working making life meaningful in a challenging society. These are the human projects we all face. In every problem there are solutions and wisdom to discover. I provide a temporary and safe therapeutic relationship for discovery and practice. My clinical experience began twenty-two years ago in hospitals settings for severely mentally ill adults and neglected adolescents. Currently in my private practice I see adults and use a mindfulness-based and cognitive psychotherapy (including DBT) sometimes with a philosophic orientation based in dharma or Buddhist-influenced thinking and insights. The psychotherapy I offer is unique and effective because the ""talk therapy"" is anchored in attention to breath cultivation of your imagination aspects of the client-therapist professional relationship that safely teach us about you and we welcome your intuition and wisdom along with the medical-clinical aspects of psychotherapy. """