How my journey began
Prior to my career as a psychotherapist, I taught in private and public Elementary and Middle Schools.
This interest led me to take a great academic and clinical interest in psychology. I studied and received training at both the Masters and Doctoral levels in Individual Depth Psychology, couples therapy and family therapy. My study and training was within the context of child and adult development and the repairs relevant to each level of being.
In the late 70s, I found an outlet for these interests, as I began working with chronic mentally ill patients. I worked as a counselor and program coordinator, clinical supervisor, and program director at a satellite housing program for chronic mentally ill patients within the department of San Francisco Community Mental Health Services.
As my clinical work progressed, I naturally pivoted into a private psychotherapy practice. I have four special areas of my clinical practice:
Depth individual, personal and archetypal therapy with dream analysis.
Psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy and its development of a psychological attitude, for either depth or briefer goal-oriented therapy.
Couples therapy – where I help people with issues that are often crises, as well as to help couples develop into greater stages of maturity.
Adoption – providing help for the adoptive triad: the birth mother and/or father, the adoptee, and the adoptive parents.
Individual therapy, depth psychology, psychoanalytic therapy, couples therapy, and family therapy have been the cornerstones of my private psychotherapy practice since 1980, which I have maintained in San Francisco, and Marin as a Marriage Family Therapist with an M.Ed., M.A. and a Ph.D. in psychology.
I have also found great value in the regular practices of meditation and of attending to an innate curiosity that lives within. When activated, this curiosity liberates us from the deceptive nature of our conditioned thoughts, feelings and beliefs. Through guided meditations, I help interested clients develop their natural ability to draw from a reservoir of inner calm and peace that was actually there before they began to look for it. This is extremely valuable when the outer world is anything but calm or peaceful. When learned and developed through a correct clinical practice, the combination of meditation and curiosity provides a natural orientation toward realizing one’s endless human potential. Sometimes this is called “awakening.”