My work is informed by my life experience as a committed social worker, longtime member of a spiritual community, and mother of 4 adult children, including my youngest son who has Down's Syndrome.

The therapy and spiritual guidance I offer is first and foremost based on my client's needs. I sit in presence to each person in order to understand their language--the language of their soul or psyche--as a basis for creative work together in order to find acceptance, create meaning, and honor the sacred in everyday experience.

 

I am currently dedicated to the developmental model. I am committed to this model of growth with couples and individuals. As each member of a couple deepens in their capacity to know themselves and each other, I lean strongly into the felt sense of experience ( a practice to support mindfulness). I work with the three centers of thinking (the head) feeling (the heart) and embodiment (the belly), and work with the inner critic also known as the judge, or the super ego. The felt sense and the work with the judge and the three centers support the developmental capacity for differentiation which is so skillfully unfolded using the tools of the developmental model. My training with Narrative Therapy, Internal Family Systems, and the contribution from Neuroscience support the deepening and growing capacity for true relationship. With these tools in hand, I am grateful and privileged to witness the removal of barriers to loving those we love. Object relations theory is central to the work I do as well as the many decades of spiritual retreat with Buddhist and Sufi practice.

I am also committed to work with grief and the aging process. I am aware and committed to the challenges facing elders as I am an elder.

 

“There is a field out beyond right and wrong. I’ll meet you there.” Rumi

Areas of Expertise

  • Developmental Model of Couples Therapy

  • Object Relations and Mindfulness

  • Ordained Minister (Interfaith)

  • Certified Compassionate Bereavement Care

  • Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Assessment

  • Attachment, Regulation, Competency (ARC) Model

  • Motivational Interviewing

  • Internal Family Systems

  • Narrative Therapy and Re-Membering Lives