Thank you for visiting my website. I hope this site will help you on your journey to living a fuller, and happier and emotionally healthy life. Life can hurt. Emotional pain, social awkwardness, fear of anger, shame or rejection can block that which we desire most-loving nurturing relationships, affirmation from others, and self-valuing and most of all, enjoyment of life, and laughter. As a relational psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist I have been helping individuals and couples reach for and fulfill those desires for 40+ years. I am currently doing telehealth throughout Oregon and the State of Washington as I am licensed on both states.
If anxiety, sadness, self-loathing or loneliness is to become transformative in therapy, I think it is important to find a therapist who you can tell your story to, that you feel a connection to: someone who is warm, who is patient, who seems caring to you and who seems to know their business.
I work with patients individually and in a couples context. My treatment focus is primarily talk therapy that emphasizes an person’s capacity to grow and develop over one’s entire life. I have been inspired to witness personal transformation and growth even after the most difficult life circumstances. My practice includes longer term psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, short-term consultation, and supervision of mental health professionals of all disciplines. I believe it is important to maintain an integrated treatment perspective because each person is unique. I combine psychodynamic, psychoanalytic and cognitive-behavioral approaches in my work according to the unique needs of each individual person.
Emergence of experiences or remembrances that are bound up with original family memories can block or overshadow this transformative moment, especially if trauma or feelings of inferiority were part of that past. If someone is there to listen and give words to your experiences, the present can be loosened from the impeding past and transformation can happen
Some of the following concerns have been brought to this work.
- ANXIETY and confusion about getting closer to other people because of past hurts, or feeling inferior to others socially, or feeling unliked or unloved by others,
- accomplishing something meaningful, but blocked by feelings of inadequacy or depression.
- Dread in dealing with interpersonal conflict and anger in others and which makes some relationships and leadership or managerial roles very uncomfortable.
- Trying too hard to please others, often resulting in less success and more Stress.
- Feeling undeserving of success, or blaming oneself entirely for relationship failures.
Talking about what hurts helps emotions matter-helps you matter. Mattering to yourself frees up blocks to growth. We work cooperatively to unblock the road blocks from the past on the present. I work to empower both individuals and couples in this very personal co-creative work that needs both of our contributions.
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