We tend to think about change when we are experiencing painful emotions or when we are struggling with a major decision or conflict. Counseling provides a time, a place and a process for reflecting on who we are and who we are becoming. Self-understanding and change become more conscious and certain.

I work with individuals
- who are struggling with chronic depression, chronic anxiety or chronic stress,
- who are at a crossroads in life (midlife issues, divorce, illness, career issues) and may be struggling with a sense of meaning or purpose,
- who are struggling with issues of creativity.
This work may involve dream work, body-focused work and other approaches to the unconscious as well as conscious reflection. It may involve alpha-stim micro-current therapy.

I also focus on practical neuropsychological issues and work with individuals
- who have or suspect they may have attention deficit disorder with or without hyperactivity (ADD or ADHD); I regard these as processing styles,
- who are past midlife and who have questions, concerns or goals concerning the cognitive changes associated with normal aging.

Orientation: Jungian depth psychology; Existential psychology; Insight and solutions focus.

Books I Recommend
• He, by Robert Johnson. A fanciful but brilliant introduction to symbolic thinking and the language of dreams.
• The Way of Woman, by Helen Luke. Essays examining some problems of living from a psychological perspective.
• In the Ever After, by Allan Chinen. Essays on midlife as reflected in folktales.
• Waking the Tiger, by Peter Levine. Discussion of the effects of trauma on the body and the need to heal both physically and psychologically.
• The Wounded Woman, by Linda Leonard. Powerful perspective on the father-daughter relationship.

Reflection promotes understanding.
Dreaming promotes vision.
Commitment promotes change.