Specialization

I consider my expertise to be “clinical” listening, and over the course of 25 years, I have worked in depth with many kinds of patients. I dislike the whole notion of putting people into categories . Most of my referrals come from former patients, from colleagues, and from medical doctors. I believe the capacity for empathy and attunement is the salient issue in determining outcome.

Sometimes the body speaks first, presenting with symptoms that may register in physical ways, but are simultaneously communications about unformulated emotional pain. Examples may be chronic fatigue, insomnia, agitation, disorders of appetite or sleep, sexual compulsions, tearfulness, or a range of physical pains that do not conform easily with known medical syndromes. While some patients are referred to me with issues such as these; others seek out help for conscious identifiable emotional states, such as depression, anxiety, loneliness, low self-esteem, and relationship related distress. Some patients come to me because of issues related to fertility, post-partum syndromes, or menopause.

I work primarily with adults, but I also see adolescents, and male-female or same-sex couples. I  see parents in connection with developing parenting skills or the management of “difficult” children.