I've spent my career helping people who look "put together" on the outside but feel overwhelmed, stuck, or at the edge of what they can carry inside. Below is the story of how my work evolved-and who I am as a person and therapist. 

How my work evolved

My first professional job in the 1980s was with actively suicidal clients-and on Day One, I realized my training wasn't enough. That shock sent me on a decades‑long path into mind-body, integrative trauma work that helps the nervous system find real peace, not just make sense of the story.

I saw that traditional talk therapy alone often left people in the same painful loop: they could describe their suffering, but didn't feel any safer or more regulated. I became determined to find approaches that helped people feel different in their bodies, not just think differently.

I dove into mind-body and neuroscience‑informed methods long before they were common, studying how the nervous system holds trauma, and how hypervigilance, shutdown, and dissociation are survival strategies-not character flaws. As I integrated these tools, my clients had more regulation in their bodies, fewer self‑harm urges, and more hope.

Those early years convinced me that effective treatment engages brain, body, and nervous system-especially for people who are at the limit of what they can tolerate. Today, I work primarily with high‑performing adults in tech, healthcare, and leadership who are navigating complex trauma, chronic stress, and often chronic or invisible illness.

Who I am as a therapist

My approach is to listen closely to what you want and then tailor our work to fit you. Everyone is unique, and I've never treated two people in exactly the same way.

My style is interactive, light, direct, educational, warm, willing to go deep-and at times, humorous. I'm very serious about our work, but I'm not solemn.

My life includes being blissfully married for over forty years (to the same guy!), so I know firsthand how challenging great relationships can be. My own marriage has been an ongoing field test for many of the professional trainings I've taken.

So when I give homework, it's because I know from lived experience that it works. You'll never get academic, stuffy nonsense or judgment from me-I promise.

My perspective comes from many people who've taught me how to live from my essential self, the inner ground that continually renews my life. My unique lens as a therapist is seeing that same innate wholeness in every person-and helping them see it, too.

Clients often come to therapy thinking they have to focus on their wounds to heal. I believe at least as much or more good comes from discovering your best and brightest core self. Positive energy makes problem‑solving easier-which means less time in therapy and more time living your new, more satisfying life.