What I Do

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The freedom you long for is not beyond your reach. In fact, it’s within you now.

Looking to the past is not where you’ll find it. Mindfulness-based therapy teaches how being in the moment guides you to move beyond anxiety, fear, uncertainty, unwanted habits, and hiding from your true nature.

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Mindfulness and brain-based psychotherapy and coaching by video.
I help adults suffering from:

Therapy for Men & Women with:
Anxiety & Fears
Depression & Worry
Stress & Fatigue
Insomnia
Women’s Issues & Transitions
Men’s Transitions & Dating
Illness or health-related mind-body issues
Victims of crime
Grief & Loss issues, including pets

Coaching for:
Women over 40 in transition

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My approach is mindfulness-based psychology and the latest neuroscience research as it relates to helping you to change your experience of life and overcome fear, anxiety, turmoil, or emotional pain that is showing up in your life.  You will learn to deepen self-compassion, and self-reliance by trusting your gut, assessment and perceptions.  With a stronger mind/body/brain resilience, you can ride the ups and downs of life like waves.  Our work together will be secular (not Buddhist) unless you prefer it to be spiritual in the orientation of your choice.

My approaches in therapy work synergistically, effectively changing your brain in a positive direction of your choosing, unlike in your impressionable and parent-led youth. In turn, this will change your perceptions and emotions concerning issues in your life today.  You can live and respond to your life feeling capable of making new choices of your own and act in new ways that benefit you.  You can live mindfully, trusting in yourself, and expressing your authentic nature each moment. 

Please note that I do not work with drug and alcohol addictions or adolescents and children. 

I believe there are limitless possibilities within every human being and therefore I do not set limits for you via a diagnosis or labels.

The effects of your past are happening right now in your relationships, work, health, emotions, thoughts and behavior.  What results from the past is usually labeled ‘depression, anxiety, an illness, fear, underachieving, numbing-out, unhealthy relationships, over-eating, compulsive shopping’ and so forth.  I will help you as they arise in the present, and therefore and not focus primarily on your past but on today, helping you deal with current obstacles and emotions.

The journey is multidimensional and personalized for you.  My holistic approach to healing emotional and mental health lessens the likelihood that you will develop or maintain current stress-related health problems.

I can speak to a wide scope of mind/body practices, including energy and chakra work, meditations, creativity and right brain development. As appropriate, I will make suggestions or referrals to excellent practitioners for treatments I don’t provide such as massage, acupuncture, nutrition, movement, physicians or nurse practitioners, and other types of body/work.

If you are ready and serious about getting healthy and centered,  I invite you to email me to schedule a 20-minute complimentary phone “meeting.” I’ll ask you a few questions to determine if this approach to therapy would be a good fit for you, and you can do the same.

As a Licensed HeartMath 1:1 Coach, we may use HeartMath’s scientifically validated heart-based, stress-reducing, revitalizing coaching, which incorporates physiologically-based feedback technology. This can help you learn how to transform your reaction to stressors and maintain a healthier life for your mind and body, in person.