I am an older therapist with many years of experience in helping people who I help safely work together to overcome worries, recover from addictions ( smoking habits}, after the affair damage, and other problems like fears that dominate their lives. I help through sessions, clients find their unique ways to stand up those problems, help persons to uncover and utilize their own problem-solving resources to make comebacks against those problems and free themselves to live their lives that they define are best suited to them.
Clients can expect that they will be valued, appreciated, and supported in telling their problem stories. I will help them develop a game plan of action to address their concerns.
Because I have had many years of successful practice, I bring a lot of know how about what works with clients' issues. I am skilled in joining with clients of different backgrounds and doing everything I know how to do to bring hope and possibility.
I work best with clients who are open to making use of strength-based approaches and are just plain tired of being pushed around by problems and want to do the work to free themselves from addictive unwanted addictions, such as smoking and compulsive behaviors. I work best with individuals, couples and families where they want to put the work into putting anxieties, phobias and obsessions and compulsions in their place. With families I am at my best when they want to do the work to untie the harmful knots that bind them. In individual treatment I do well with clients who come alone who are ready to take steps to find solutions to troubles.
Eclectic
Clients present with issues related to addictions such as smoking, compulsive eating, phobias, grief, marital conflict, child and adolescent family conflicts. Each situation is different, may use hypnosis, narrative and family systems approaches.
Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy is a process by which persons may uncover their natural problem-solving processes. But using other approaches I help couples and families change from dominating problems to finding solutions and strengthening.
Family Therapy
I have worked with families with child and adolescent issues and conflicts to free themselves from stuck family destructive systems for 70 years.