Services That Ignite Change

Becoming Your Own Best Friend / Coming Home to Yourself

Most problems that bring people to therapy stem from relationships — past family dynamics and current connections — that failed to provide adequate emotional nourishment.

When clients become empowered to create healthy, nourishing, Self-based relationships, their problems often resolve themselves.

All the work I do is about empowering the transformation of relationships by strengthening the relationship with your Self — the foundation for all your other relationships. When you cultivate this relationship, you become more authentic, connectable, magnetic, and creative — and it gives you substance and depth whenever you're relating.

Relationship breakdown and discord stems from the backlog of unexpressed feelings and unresolved issues forming a wedge of disconnection — an atmosphere of rising tension and unsafety that makes communication impossible.

Relationship Therapy and Training is for you if:

• You feel stuck in repeating relationship patterns
• Conflict escalates or leads to distance and shutdown
• You're feeling unsafe, co-existing in an atmosphere of rising tension
• You feel unseen, unheard, or emotionally alone — even in relationship
• Addiction, compulsive behavior, or betrayal has impacted trust and intimacy
• You want deeper connection without losing yourself
• You are ready to grow, not just cope

My role is to create a safe space for couples to begin speaking openly and authentically about those issues and feelings that have long since been avoided. I facilitate the conversations that need to be had. In the process, communication barriers dissolve, they begin to understand each other and come away feeling closer and more connected.

Restoring the Flow of Connection

"I wish there was a way to change how we are with each other."

You may recognize it in your family when:

• Conversations feel strained — or don't happen at all
• Old parent–child dynamics still dominate, even in adulthood
• Defensiveness and reactivity hijack everyday interactions

Family therapy is about building bridges and melting the frozen hearts by opening lines of communication.

We create an atmosphere of safety and openness conducive to sharing in an honest and authentic way — a far cry from the atmosphere of rising tension and unsafety that freezes communication in its tracks. We dive right into the unexpressed feelings and unresolved issues that had become a wedge of disconnection.

Addiction treatment is based on The Relationship Model of Addiction — a new paradigm for understanding addiction and recovery I developed after 30 years of experience as an addiction specialist.

Unhealthy, non-nourishing relationships are the spawning ground of addiction. The backlog of pain from unmet emotional needs or lack of nourishment is the underlying driving force of all addiction.

Recovery: A Three-Stage Journey

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Are you concerned about a loved one in the throes of addiction or another mental health issue? Facing a crisis and don't know what to say or do? Feeling powerless watching someone you love spiraling down, destroying their lives and relationships?

Feel free to set up a brief time to assess your situation and next action steps.