We shall not cease from exploring and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
T.S.Elliot
ABOUT ME
ABOUT ME
II have been a licensed psychologist since 1991 having originally practiced in Pennsylvania and now practicing in California.
I earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology and then completed both a master's and doctorate in Clinical Psychology, becoming a licensed psychologist in 1983. Over the years, I have worked in corporations, private clinics, schools, and a sex therapy clinic and have taught at the doctoral level.
EXPERIENCE
PHILOSOPHY
My mentoring and teaching practice combine deep personal process work which incorporates the transpersonal or spiritual aspects of development. in the context of a consistent, supportive relationship. My work includes an appreciation of attachment theory and Psychosynthesis principles.
SPECIALTIES
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Adults
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Individuals and Couples
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Relationship Issues
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Stress and trauma
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Anxiety, sleep and depression
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EMDR practitioner
I specialize in what I called “accessing the resources of the unconscious” developing skills in NLP, hypnosis, interactive guided imagery, and dream interpretation. I also spent many years as a specialist in treating trauma and dissociative trauma. I went on to teach interactive guided imagery as the Curriculum Director for the Academy of Guided Imagery. I became proficient in EMDR and Energy Psychology techniques such as TFT and EFT. My work has been profoundly influenced by the work of Jung, Psychosynthesis, attachment theory, neuroscience models of behavior change and quantum physics.
To this day I have a keen interest in transformative technologies, which I integrate into my practice. In the late 1990’s, I studied biofeedback and EEG biofeedback or neurofeedback and later taught for EEG Spectrum with a particular emphasis on a personal and spiritually transformative protocol called Alpha Theta. My partner and I pioneered some of the first group uses of group Alpha Theta technology, which we taught at Esalen Institute and Asilomar Conference Center. I later co-taught deep personal group intensives with pioneers in the field of EEG, Sue and Val Brown.
I am also an advocate of Cranial Electrical Stimulation and use the FDA approved device called the Alpha Stim which has been approved to treat anxitey, depression and sleep disorders.
