Personal Statement

Welcome! I am a licensed marriage and family therapist. They try to show a calm surface, but their lives literally and routinely fall apart from these conditions. I believe that healing comes from building skills to cope with difficult life situations and integrating our head, heart and body. I use DBT and somatic therapy approaches. In addition to individual therapy, I offer DBT skills building groups. Weekend appointments available.

Most of us think of mental illness in terms of severe disabilities including schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar I disorder, and so many other heartbreaking and disabling disorders. These are very serious conditions, and I have spent years treating them.

I have watched people I love suffer from other mental illnesses – depression, bipolar, anxiety, PTSD, and relationship problems. People with these problems suffer profoundly and in agonizing silence. They don’t talk, and no one wants to know. They try to show a calm surface, but their lives literally and routinely fall apart from these conditions.