About My Practice
I employ a functional, wide-ranging, integrative approach, examining the here-and-now reality of the person's emotional, experiential, perceptual, physical, interpersonal, and intra-psychic worlds, co-creating helpful change with my patients in directions they mindfully choose.
I work hard to have the knowledge and networking developed to, as best I can, see that medical problems are addressed by qualified skillful colleagues so that I can then help clients address psychological issues, as well as educate themselves about nutritional, exercise-related, and sleep-related problems and any problems due to over- or under-arousal of the central nervous system, teaching how to change these as effectively and efficiently as possible.
I strive to help people learn about themselves, especially how patterns of feelings, anxiety, and psychological defenses dramatically affect the quality of our lives. These patterns have been unconscious, implicit (overpracticed old) procedural rules for dealing with feelings toward others' behaviors, basically "knee-jerk responses" out of our awareness and control, but can be effectively changed when together we develop conscious awareness and learn to practice mindful choices to increase our tolerance for feelings and to reduce our anxiety. For example, anxiety effectively shuts the brain down from the outside in ... so that as our fears and stress hormones increase we go from human competencies to ancient mammalian (think possum), or even reptilian (think "freeze") responses! If we want optimal functioning, we need a good grip on this...
Together, my patients and I co-create the kind of optimal health and function they have often long desired, empowering a better life for them and those around them. When they engage in more skillful, conscious feeling and responding in the here-and-now, facing reality rather than denying it, this is health. It ripples out in their world and promotes greater health in others around them as well.
I work hard to have the knowledge and networking developed to, as best I can, see that medical problems are addressed by qualified skillful colleagues so that I can then help clients address psychological issues, as well as educate themselves about nutritional, exercise-related, and sleep-related problems and any problems due to over- or under-arousal of the central nervous system, teaching how to change these as effectively and efficiently as possible.
I strive to help people learn about themselves, especially how patterns of feelings, anxiety, and psychological defenses dramatically affect the quality of our lives. These patterns have been unconscious, implicit (overpracticed old) procedural rules for dealing with feelings toward others' behaviors, basically "knee-jerk responses" out of our awareness and control, but can be effectively changed when together we develop conscious awareness and learn to practice mindful choices to increase our tolerance for feelings and to reduce our anxiety. For example, anxiety effectively shuts the brain down from the outside in ... so that as our fears and stress hormones increase we go from human competencies to ancient mammalian (think possum), or even reptilian (think "freeze") responses! If we want optimal functioning, we need a good grip on this...
Together, my patients and I co-create the kind of optimal health and function they have often long desired, empowering a better life for them and those around them. When they engage in more skillful, conscious feeling and responding in the here-and-now, facing reality rather than denying it, this is health. It ripples out in their world and promotes greater health in others around them as well.
Some Services I Provide
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Anger "Management": becoming an expert at effective use of feeling
Assessment of Executive Functioning Autogenic Training Biofeedback Breath work: skillfully managing the autonomic nervous system Coaching re optimal exercise, nutrition, and sleep Coaching U of MT Students re DSS and receiving disability accommodations Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Emotion-Focused Couples Therapy Emotion-Focused (ISTDP) Therapy |
Existential Psychotherapy
Family Systems Psychotherapy Focusing Gestalt Psychotherapy Dynamic Group Psychotherapy Guided Therapeutic Imagery Hakomi (Body-Centered) Therapy "Identity" Affirmations: what, how, effective use Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) Mindfulness-Based Interventions Motivational Interviewing and Enhancement Neurofeedback Object Relations Therapy Person-Centered (Rogerian) Therapy |
Positive Psychotherapy
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Relaxation Techniques Schema Therapy Self Psychology (Kohutian) Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) Systems Theory /Therapy The Latest Scientific Info on nutrition, sleep, optimal exercise, and inflammation, best measurement devices and systems Vipassana (Insight) Meditation training |