• Trauma and PTSD
• Bereavement
• Depression
• Chronic depression (dysthymia)
• Anxiety & panic attacks
• Sexual issues
• Chronic pain
• Educational presentations and fun workshops

Just a few of the modalities I use to help clients make change are:

• Mindfulness & meditation practices
• Schema Therapy
• Sex Therapy
• Hypnotherapy
• Restorative yoga for stress and/or bereavement
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
• Imagery Rescripting & Reprocessing Therapy (IRRT)

My office is located in beautiful Boca Raton, Florida, close to I-95. I also see people in their homes under certain circumstances.

Almost all problems people face are multifaceted and interconnected. It is through this way of understanding problems that I have developed my areas of expertise and interest. For instance, there are some people who faced abuse in childhood, but were fortunate to have some resiliency factors, and now they do not need psychotherapy to function effectively. However, there are others who developed coping mechanisms that have outlived their usefulness and now may be harmful. This is something I can help clients change.

A technique that has been very helpful in my life, and in anyone's life who has practiced it, is mindfulness. The therapeutic blending of this practice with psychotherapy has been validated in the creation of Dialectical Behavior Therapy, a very useful intervention for clients who have survived childhood abuse and Personality Disordered individuals. Mindfulness has been blended with Schema Therapy, too. There are probably other types of therapies using mindfulness and/or meditation that I have yet to discover. In short, mindfulness and meditation are skills that help people change by creating awareness of habits of mind and body. It is this awareness that is the starting point for changing non-useful patterns of thinking.

One of the common symptoms I hear from survivors of childhood sexual abuse is that they suffer from sexual dysfunction or some type of sexual problem. This is one of the reasons I am including sexual health and couple intimacy concerns in my practice with sex therapy.

I can help clients, male, female, and non-gender specific. All sexual orientation(s) and preferences are respected and assisted. I see adult individuals in or out of relationships. Surprisingly, many couples suffer from sexual and relational problems without realizing there is help available for them.

Many people have complaints of pain in the body following traumatic incidents or childhoods. Pelvic pain in adulthood following childhood sexual abuse, without organic cause, has been clinically documented. Seizures, again without organic etiology, have surfaced in adults following traumatic childhood events. Hypnotherapy is a very useful tool for these problems. Helping people get unstuck from non-useful thoughts about the past can also be done through hypnotherapy. Amazingly, hypnotherapy can be implemented to assist the process of change for a wide range of reasons.

Realistically, if you live long enough, you will experience much loss of people and things, and you will grieve those losses. In most cases, people eventually find their way through their personal loss and can function again as before, even though the loss is still felt and remembered. Our society, however, can often make the person who is bereaved feel that he or she is not processing his or her grief fast enough or should somehow be done with it. This puts a lot of unnecessary pressure on the bereaved. In these cases and in cases of "complicated grief," it is helpful to seek therapeutic professional help. Unique to my practice, I offer an additional component to this work by inviting interested clients to combine restorative yoga to the talk therapy.