I work, with individuals, with couples, and with groups, from an integral, relational view of psychotherapy. In essence, this integral view honors our painful experience of mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual distress and also recognizes that we are far more than our suffering. In large part, effective psychotherapy is about helping someone who is caught in a cycle of suffering to do two things: to access openness in order to approach that suffering with loving kindness, and to invite compassion in order to work with that suffering from a place of wisdom. Therapeutic relationship is a turning key in this process and a unique container for it. 

There are a host of effective therapeutic techniques and methods to access openness and invite compassion that I have trained in, including psychoanalytic/psychodynamic work with habitual patterns of relating and how to realize new ways of connecting; cognitive/behavioral work with core beliefs, somatic work touching into sensory experience; humanistic/transpersonal work exploring how we give meaning to our lives; family systems work with multigenerational streams of habitual patterning; relational work on intimacy, attachment, gender issues, and sexuality; and expressive arts work—including music therapy and art therapy—that taps the creative spirit.

The themes of my therapeutic work with patients, for the past twenty five years, include spirit and faith; sex, love, relationship and family; wellness and disability; work and creativity; intuition and psyche; culture and identity; grief and loss; fulfillment and meaning; suffering and healing. It is a unique privilege to serve as a collaborative therapeutic guide in engaging many of these life themes with each person who I am fortunate to work with. There is a depth orientation to my private practice; I often work with patients for several years. My specialty is dreamwork - helping people to access and interpret and be in relationship to their dreams and nightmares of the day and of the night. The musicality of being is a key presence in my work.

My unique form of Integral Relational work draws on this ground and centers on relationships with myriad aspects of oneself, with others, and with/in the world and cosmos. A great strength as an integral practitioner of the therapeutic arts is my capacity to host and to offer those particular methods that open into further fields of experience, for psychotherapy and for consultation.

Rooted in the teachings of awakened heart, listening to your unique and dynamic being, through the therapeutic practices of “withnessing” (Ofra Eshel), I will help you to make “contact with the depths” (Michael Eigen) and to live the questions arising, together.

My fees are commensurate with other highly trained and experienced clinicians. 50 minute sessions with individuals, both in person and by video when clients are at a distance within the states of California, New York, and Washington, are 225/hr. 50 minute sessions with couples are 350/hr. I can provide an invoice for clients who have a PPO insurance plan and would like to seek reimbursement. Currently I am seeing all patients online through telehealth.