I practice Stanley Keleman's Formative Psychology which focuses on embodiment: "Life continually forms the next series of shapes, birth through maturity to old age. At conception each person is given a biological and emotional inheritance, but through voluntary effort a human fulfills the potential forming a personal life. Form gives rise to feeling. When a person is grounded in somatic reality we can say I know who I am by how I experience myself," See below for examples: Thus, I particulalry enjoy supporting the development and formation of individuals over the lifecycle. For example, a teen trying to form an adult life; an older person in a crisis/transition about forming the next stage of life. My work is based on building a trusting relationship with a person. It's the only way I know that any therapy can work; everything follows from that relationship,
| Qualifications: | California School of Professional Psychology, Berkeley, CA |
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| Academic Suffixes: | PhD |
| Expertise: | Adoption, Anxiety, Other, Child or Adolescent, Depression, Divorce, Domestic Abuse, Domestic Violence, Family Conflict, Marital and Premarital, Oppositional Defiance, Parenting, Other, Pregnancy, Prenatal, Postpartum, Relationship Issues, School Issues, Self Esteem, Trauma and PTSD, Veterans |