Hello and thank you for visiting my professional web page. I would like to tell you a little bit about my training, experience, and expertise. I am a Licensed Marital and Family Therapist, Transpersonal Psychotherapist, and an Existential-Humanistic Psychotherapist. I hold a Master's of Arts in Counseling Psychology from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto, CA, where much of the development of Marital Family Therapy took place. I also hold a Stewardship in In-Depth Communication from the International Institute for Humanistic Studies. I have also provided clinical services and supervision in standard and adaptations of Multisystemic Therapy. 

I have guided families and individuals in a variety of contexts, helping them address a wide range of problems. Early in my career I worked in California with individuals with severe psychiatric conditions in a group home setting. During that time I also helped many many children and teens to become better at coping with problems at home and in the community and learn more effective ways to behave. I expanded this work when I came back to Connecticut in the non-profit sector, where I performed pilot trials in a new adaptation of Multisystemic Therapy that helped parents improve their skills and relationships with their teens and pre-teens. I did this by helping parents cease or decrease their drug and alcohol abuse, learn how to improve their symptoms from mental health problems such as trauma, anxiety, and family problem solving and communication, and training parents to better address their teenagers' behavior problems. After almost three years as a clinician with this program, the pilot was deemed successful and this type of therapy is now in clinical trials. I moved on from there to manage a small Mulisystemic Therapy program in Hartford and Manchester, CT. Currently, I am the clinical director for 2 therapeutic group homes. 

This fusion of diverse and contemporary training and experience has endowed me with a unique and effective expertise in family therapy, psychotherapy, and transpersonal wellness that is both scientific and humanistic. My specialties include:

• Couple's communication, problem solving, and increasing intimacy through in-depth communication
• Family therapy to help parents to get control of and better handle teenage behaviors
• Transpersonal psychotherapy to help people integrate personal and spiritual experiences and find meaning
• Decreasing symptoms of trauma and PTSD
• Decreasing symptoms of anxiety
• Substance abuse and relapse prevention therapy 
  

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