Practice Description
I have over 30 years experience as a psychotherapist with specialty areas in marriage and family therapy, mental health counseling, and sex therapy. In my practice I work with individuals, couples, and families. My theoretical orientation is eclectic in nature encompassing family systems theory, cognitive-behavioral theory, person-centered theory, Adlerian theory and reality theory.
During treatment, I focus largely on the relationships people have, both within and outside their families and emphasize the acceptance of responsibility for one's life and life situations. A main goal of therapy is help individuals, couples and families to identify and access their strengths. As blame is counter therapeutic it is not allowed to become a focus of attention in treatment. Rather, the emphasis is placed on helping people develop their strengths, individually, as a couple, or as a family system to assist in overcoming or managing more effectively whatever their problems might be. There is a great emphasis in therapy on achieving mental health and in preventing future problems from re-occurring by developing effective and adaptive coping strategies.
Areas of special emphasis within my practice include the full range of relationship and intimacy issues for both heterosexual and same-sex couples; extramarital affairs; sexual dysfunctions; childhood sexual abuse and mental health concerns.