Comprehensive Resource Method/CRM is a practice that I draw upon for trauma processing toward healing. Trauma is a very personal issue. It requires sensitivity, time, trust and a desire to grow. Healing is possible. Important conversations…dialogue and somatic work for lasting psychic and physical changes toward quality of life occur through dedicated work within the therapy.

Are you ready to begin work on healing from sexual trauma? Individual trauma therapy often draws upon CRM.  A new women’s group is forming and will meet virtually, via ZOOM. Find out more here.

Surgery preparation; learning how to create a positive, inner calm to survive, sustain, maintain and thrive during serious illness. Learn inner tools to re-train your mind away from pain pathways. Use cognitive tools and emotional support to ease into pharmaceutical-free living.

Gender matters. In our culture, men tend to be touch-deprived and they can also be discouraged from understanding their inner lives, including emotional pain. (Brush it off? Act like a man)

When there is an emotional barrier in relating authentically and deeply with partners, children and friends old and new — psychic numbing and externalizing emotions can manifest in various sequelae. Without awareness, one is prone to emotional flooding and feelings of being overwhelmed. Sometimes men stuff their feelings, withdraw and shut down —depression, anxiety, obsessions, compulsions, excessive anger, great inner suffering or numbness show up.

Men and Porn: Turning to outside stimulation — which can be an effective solution for psychic pain, can be better understood. Turning towards porn is one. At times men turn to sex because it is a place where they can drop their emotional armor and attempt to feel fully seen, accepted and loved. Men turn towards porn without the pressures of norms and roles.

Generally speaking, the sensual pleasure of sex can lead men to turn to sex to feel emotional vulnerability and relational connection in a safe context.

We will have important conversations about how these dynamics and others play out in your life. Insight and in-situ management of feelings within the therapy hour create potential for personal growth.

Finding time to nurture the relationship you have with your family members, i.e. adult children can improve closeness. Sometimes this process involves outside support. If left untreated, family members may experience depression, anxiety, and at times separation. My aim is to help you regain connections, cope, and feel better about yourself as an individual and family.

Every behavior caused by stress is an effort at communication. Together we’ll translate your and your child’s emotional language into a refined tool to help you rebuild loving bonds. Adult children and parent relationships are welcome to treatment.

I really believe in marriage: a supportive, nourishing partnership. We focus on exploring people’s vulnerabilities and lean away from blaming.

Are you choosing the wrong person?

Are you in a relationship that you want to make better?

Let me help you develop the ability to grow, commit and sustain a satisfying relationship.

Couples therapy requires a systems approach. We focus on exploring people’s vulnerabilities and away from blaming. What does each person bring to the union? What are the unspoken agreements? How do we not personalize our wounds but rather work toward living as differentiated, full dimensional individuals with our partner.

Treatment focus is on the resolution of worries and unresolved issues that are causing symptoms. Through insight-oriented and cognitive behavioral therapy, education, and emotional support – a better understanding and appropriate treatment is developed to help you make in-roads.

Our goal is harm reduction and then you decide how best to proceed.