Hi! I'm a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Certified Addictions Professional based in Florida. I have two Masters degrees (Counseling, 1989 and Social Work, 2001) and also received advanced clinical training with the Wellness Institute of Seattle since 2011. I am still in their advanced Mentorship Program (2024). I am trained in Imago Therapy, and Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) as well as many, many modalities. I have been practicing for 19 years, 12 of those in private practice. I help people love and transcend themselves though coping (regular talking therapy, coping skills) and unpacking (looking at and moving through deeper subconscious behavior motivations).
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
Our first session is generally a 'get to know each other' session. I will ask a few questions to understand your concerns and where you are coming from and then talk about ways to move forward to address them.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
My greatest strength as a provider of therapy is that I am human. I am curious, compassionate, sometimes use profanity and humor and crack jokes. I have a lot of insight and intuition. It comes on me like a inspiration in the moment and yet I know it comes from a lot, a lot of training and even more life experiences. I am extremely creative with ideas, suggestions and interventions. I often combine therapy techniques to better fit what my client is presenting with.
Describe the client(s) you are best positioned to serve.
I love working with people who are highly motivated to heal themselves and who really want to do some serious inner healing work. Because of my varied and lifelong experiences with religion and spirituality I especially work well with people who are more esoteric and spiritual in their personal healing work. I work with all spiritualities: Pagan, Buddhist, Jewish, Christian, Islam, Atheist and more. I also work well with men and men's issues (gay, bi, straight, transmen).
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1881 NE 26th St, Wilton Manors, FL 33305, Suite 102Appointments
Virtual & in-personMy treatment methods
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
I use CBT to help people practically manage their thoughts and feelings. I have used it, and variations, for years and have a skill with folding it into many different interventions.
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
I am in ongoing heart-centered therapy training since 2011 with the Wellness Institute of Seattle and am in their advanced Mentorship program. Heart-Centered Therapies means really tuning into what a person is feeling and encouraging exploration and expression of that as a way of helping clients go more deeply into the core issue underneath their presenting concerns. Hert-Centered Therapies can include regular talking therapy, but also hypnotherapy, psychodrama and the more experientially based interventions that go beyond talk therapy.
Couples Counseling
I have had 3 years of intensive training in Imago Relationship Therapy. I often use it to help couples deepen their emotional communication in order to help create more vulnerability between them, more depth. I have found that the techniques in Imago can be used to coach persons in individual therapy about how to improve communications within many different types of relationships. I have had a number of couples on my caseload and use Imago Relationship Therapy with them. I teach couples how to engage in Imago dialogs.
Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP)
I have two accelerated therapies: One is Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy as taught by the Wellness Institute of Seattle. The other is Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), which is uses eye-movement to bilaterally balance out one's brain and create calm almost immediately. Regarding the Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy. I have successfully used this on literally, at this point, hundreds of people (peers in training and actual clients). It is a rapid acceleration type therapy that is 100% experiential using a combination of techniques (EX: empty chair talk, hitting a punching bag, yelling, crying, throwing things...yes, they do all this in my office, acting out scenes from their lives, etc.). I love this type of work and it is one of the signature types of interventions that I offer. It is like therapy on steroids. This is an Inner Child, trauma resolution technique. Regarding the Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), this involves the use of eye movements to move through and change (calm) reactivity to anxiety producing situations through the use of eye movements. I have found it to be highly effective in immediately calming clients and helping them see solutions.