I offer a safe place for relationships to grow by mediating and promoting interactions which cultivate understanding, improved relationship skills, secure attachment and reasonable solutions. I guide a process which helps everyone to have their needs understood... and met.

I help to increase bonding and differentiation, to promote acceptance and authenticity, to foster mutual understanding, and to facilitate a feeling of being secure and supported within the family system. Once this has happened, the family is better able to use its’ existing strengths to find the necessary solutions they are looking for.

I encourage family members to interact with each other while providing assistance to ensure that all members of the session feel safe and understood. As an experiential therapist I help people to engage in desired changes within my therapy office.

I encourage members to continually work on isolating strengths and solutions so to foster hopefulness and to help the family in collaborating around a more positive narrative.

I have the family explore their family history to isolate themes which might shed some light on resolving the current challenge. There are certain behaviors that seem to follow a pattern when looking at a family tree.

I provide a setting where I can help families to talk about the issues that most people have little experience talking about. Often families need assistance not only in solving an issue, but also in talking openly about an issue so as to be able to better support one another. Subjects such as the death of a loved one, divorce, becoming a teenager, sexual orientation, gender identity, impacted trust, or a family member’s anxiety are subjects that I can help your family to talk about while helping all the family members to feel protected from judgment and/or defensiveness.

I help the family to look at the ways that the family structure, family dynamics and family communication patterns are affecting the presenting problem. There is not a ‘one size fits all’ way for families to interact with one another; I can help to isolate the specific needs of all the individuals in a family so as to help the family to relate with one another in a way which best meets the needs of the individuals and the family system as a whole. When this is accomplished the need for a therapist is reduced.