I am now accepting new clients! Medicaid accepted. I use a warm, empathetic, and humanistic style to discover how stress or circumstances may be siphoning meaning out of your life and relationships. In time, clients come to realize that their mental suffering occurs when they resist reality or desire an ideal situation. Thoughts like, "Life is unfair," "Why can't I be happy?" or "Why was my childhood so bad?" become more manageable. When clients commit to the work to resolve tension and anxiety around childhood trauma, attachment, and suffering, individuation and differentiation can occur, and people feel better and freer. Instead of relying entirely on conventional "talk" therapy models, I work with the body and breath and engage in thoughtful dialogue, journaling, role-playing, and even silence. I am exceptionally skilled at working with issues surrounding codependence, childhood trauma, and recovery and with families who are in perpetual conflict. I have a warm, empathetic, and humanistic style. I relate as a person who has recovered from a rough childhood and as a zen teacher. There are very few things that I cannot relate to. I share what my life has taught me. I use humor and take a lighter approach. I am not ideological or political and believe that divisive ideas have no place in therapy.