After 40 years working with individuals, couples, and families, I’ve come to understand one truth above all others: the quality of every relationship in your life reflects the quality of your relationship with your Self. That’s where the work begins — and where everything changes.

I offer therapy via Zoom throughout California and in person in Fallbrook, CA. Every service is grounded in the relational framework I’ve developed over four decades of clinical practice, including The Relationship Model of Addiction^™ (TRMA^™).

Individual Therapy

Coming Home to Your Self — and Becoming Your Own Best Friend

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Most of the problems people bring to therapy are relationship problems. And most relationship problems begin in the same place: a disconnection from Self.

My work with individual clients is about making the unconscious conscious — helping you get in touch with what you’re thinking, feeling, and wanting, so you can bring that awareness to every relationship in your life.

As you cultivate the relationship with your Self, you become more authentic, more connectable, and more magnetic, with greater depth and substance whenever you’re relating. Over time, the problems that brought you to therapy begin to lose their grip, and the quality of your life and all your relationships improves.

Who this is for:

People in recovery from any kind of addiction
People struggling in their most important relationships
Anyone ready to leave non-nourishing relationships and learn to create nourishing ones
Anyone frustrated in the pursuit of connection who wants to develop essential communication skills

$300 / 45 min

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Couples & Relationship Therapy

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“A relationship is only as good as the conversations you have in it.”

Much of couples therapy is about creating a safe space to start talking about the feelings and issues that have long been avoided. In the process, the ice begins to thaw.

Every couple hits storms. What separates the couples who deepen from those who drift apart is rarely chemistry. It’s their capacity to get through the conversations that need to be had, and their commitment to working through conflict and differences.

Who this is for:

Couples and partners
Parents and children, siblings, extended family, and close friends seeking greater closeness, understanding, and nourishment
Anyone rebuilding trust after a rupture

What to expect:

All my relationship work emphasizes the co-creative process of connecting, communicating, and conversing, with endless opportunities to practice essential relationship-building skills. One theme runs through it all: conflict and differences are not the enemy of intimacy. They are the passageway to it.

$350 / 45 min

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Family Therapy

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Wherever there is an addiction or mental health struggle in a family, there is a family system that has organized itself around it — often in silence. The pink elephant in the room. The things nobody says. The feelings nobody names.

Family therapy is where those conversations finally happen. And when they do, something extraordinary becomes possible — not just healing for the identified patient, but transformation for the entire family system.

Who this is for:

Families dealing with crisis, trauma, addiction, disconnection, communication breakdowns, or escalating conflict
Adult children and parents navigating unresolved history

What to expect:

I create the conditions of safety for every member of the family to speak from their own experience — their own love, their own pain, their own truth. The work is emotionally charged, deeply cathartic, and often the first time family members have truly heard each other. What emerges from that is connection.

$350 / 45 min

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Addiction Treatment

I’ve been working with people in addiction recovery for over 40 years. I’m also personally in recovery — from compulsive gambling and pornography. I know this territory from the inside. And I know that real recovery isn’t about stopping. It’s about transforming every relationship in your life, beginning with the one with your Self.

Addiction treatment is based on The Relationship Model of Addiction^™, a new paradigm for understanding addiction and recovery built on the premise that addiction is not a disease. It is a relationship — a relationship with a means of relieving pain from unmet emotional needs. Understanding it this way changes everything about how recovery works.

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.

I work with individuals struggling with:

Substance addiction — alcohol, drugs
Process addictions — pornography, sex, gambling, love addiction
Codependency and dependency-based relationships

Recovery follows the three stages of TRMA^™:

Stage I — Breaking Up: with the means of relief, emotionally and completely
Stage II — Developing the Relationship with Self: the most important relationship of all
Stage III — Creating Nourishing Relationships: relationship training to develop essential relationship-building skills

$400 / 45 min

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Intervention Services

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When a loved one is in the grip of addiction and the family doesn’t know what to do, intervention is often the turning point.

An intervention is a tightly orchestrated process that unites the family in a concerted effort to get their loved one into treatment. It breaks the code of silence that perpetuates the addiction, opens the conversations that have been forbidden, and is often the first time the love in the family finally gets expressed out loud.

I guide families through a five-phase intervention process: Assessment, Education, Game-planning, Rehearsal, and Implementation.

Concerned about a loved one? The window of opportunity is real. Reach out today.

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Services That Ignite Change

Individual Therapy

Couples & Relationship Therapy

Family Therapy

Addiction Treatment

Intervention Services

Not sure which is right for you?