LISCW | LMFT
My practice has always been relationship focussed — couples, families and groups. Eventually I began to approach individual therapy in a similar way. Often we have different parts to ourselves and it can help to know how they might co-exist. I continue to work with many couples. A person, family, or community is affected by many things — heredity, growing up experiences, financial security, friends, and more. With over 30 years of experience helping people I have progressively learned some things in depth. Including:
- Competency Based Family Therapy
- John Gottman’s theories about couples and conflict
- Trauma and Neuroscience (how trauma is always experienced in the body)
- Affect Theory (the study of feelings), especially shame
- The Polyvagal Theory by Stephen Porges, about how the Autonomic Nervous System is automatically reacting to perceived threats to safety
From earliest
A General Theory of Love Thomas Lewis, MD; Fari Amini, MD; Richard Lennon, MDchildhood our brains actually link with those of the people close to us in a silent rhythm that makes up the life force of the body. These wordless ties determine our mood, stabilize and maintain our health, and change the structure of our brains, so that, in a very real sense, who we are and who we become depends on whom we love.