People and issues we enjoy working with include the following:

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Individual Adults (18+)

Gaining understanding and expanding awareness of your unique and dynamic personality; your family history and your role in it; your strengths and opportunities; patterns in thinking, feeling, and relating; clarifying and working toward integration or resolution of internal and external dilemmas and conflicts. 

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Couples 

Married or not, family relationships, parenting issues, communication, emotional and intimacy dynamics,  infidelity, premarital counseling and dating.

 

Spiritual Issues

Exploration of relationship to God, belief system, doubt, faith, church and religion.

 

Women's Issues

Femininity, sexuality, motherhood and / or career, sexual / physical / mental abuse, body imaging (weight, health, and beauty), empowerment and caretaking without codependency.

Emotions, Moods, and States of Being

Understanding and dealing with ALL feelings and states of being, whether anxiety, grief & bereavement, mood swings, depression, anger, resentment, frustration, sadness and loss, confusion, agitation, panic and high-energy states, creativity, love, loneliness, boredom, emptiness, obsessiveness, heartbreak and general emotional pain.

 

Existential / Humanistic Issues

Finding meaning and purpose in life; what constitutes happiness, fulfillment, and good relationships; realizing your potential and your goals and making your contribution to the world and the next generation.  Living in the tension between accepting yourself and others as they are while striving for growth, improvement and deepening.

 

Individual & Collective Unconscious

Working with the unconscious through images, dreams, metaphors, symbolism, bodily sensations and body memory.  Awakening the artist / creator within.

 

Helping professionals

Doctors, nurses, educators and teachers, psychologists, marriage & family therapists, physical therapists, social workers, missionaries and pastors.  Issues of high-stress, high-responsibility, high-emotion people-oriented jobs; self-care while caring for others; needing to be needed; dependency and co-dependency;  burnout, overextension and secondary (vicarious) trauma; the benefits and liabilities of having the gifts of service, sensitivity and empathy.

  

Wonderful People

Working with highly intelligent, abstract and philosophically-thinking, gifted, successful, creative people.