Internet video therapy for those who live too far away or want treatment in the privacy of their own home.

Co-founder, Topanga Center for Human Development

I have three strong beliefs:

(1)  The most successful treatment involved a good therapeutic alliance between client(s) and a therapist.

(2)  People have within themselves the resources for positive change.

(3)  Each person needs a specific treatment approach that fits their own unique needs.

Therefore, I see myself and my clients forming a team so that we, together, can help them grow, resolve problems and lead more productive, creative and joyful lives.  My orientation is integrative.  I draw upon my wide experience  to co-create with my clients a strategy to meet their  unique needs.  For some, it might be a short-term treatment to resolve excessive grief, a phobia,  the debilitating effects of a traumatic incident or  the creation of a more harmonious couple or family.  For others, it might be helping them to free themselves of an unsatisfying  relationship, job or addictive life style.  For still others ,  it might be longer term treatment to raise self-esteem, learning to tolerate and work through negative emotions such as grief, shame, anxiety and destructive anger; and working to resolve the painful and debilitating effects of childhood psychological, physical or sexual abuse.  

My training and experience is in the areas of  relational Gestalt therapy, EMDR, humanistic-existential therapy,  systems theory and psychodynamic therapies, particularly self psychology Stolorow’s intersubjectivity and object relations theory.