My Focus and Experience

Generally speaking, I specialize in helping people work with feelings of fear and/or loss in their lives. My approach is gentle, using talk therapy and body awareness techniques to help you connect with your feelings and internal healing resources. I believe that developing an attitude of kindness towards oneself and one's experience is the basis for healing and empowerment.

I also believe that the relationship that develops between us as we meet over time is highly significant. In fact, research shows that the relationship between therapist and client is a very important factor in clients feeling better. It is my intention for you to feel safe and unconditionally supported in our counseling relationship.

I also believe in the significance of the here and now-what happens during our sessions and between us. We are two human beings coming together to do sacred work. In therapy I will ask you what you are noticing in the moment about your feelings and about how we are doing in relationship.

I am a psychotherapist in private practice in Boulder, Colorado. In have a Masters of Arts degree in Contemplative Psychotherapy from Naropa University and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Kentucky. I have taught university level classes in Sociology and currently teach as an adjunct faculty member in the Contemplative Psychotherapy Department at Naropa.

I have received post-degree training in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), which is a therapeutic technique that integrates several different types of psychotherapies and is used primarily to help people heal from traumatic experiences. I also have a certificate in Pet Bereavement Counseling from the Association for Pet Loss and Bereavement (APLB). During the training for this certificate I studied with Dr. Wallace Sife, the leading authority on pet loss worldwide and author of The Loss of a Pet: A Guide to Coping with the Grieving Process when a Pet Dies (Howell Book House, 2005). I am a member of The American Counseling Association and the APLB.